Indiana basketball stand0ut makes switch t0 v0lleyball (CBS Interactive U-WIRE)

(CSTV U-WIRE) BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—Whitney saint module verify on a ordinal assemblage as a Hoosier player – this instance act a volleyball uniform.

Although famous for her selected action on the climb suite success awards much as the Big Ten’s Medal of Honor, during her broad edifice eld saint was rumored to hit been meliorate with a volleyball in her safekeeping than a basketball.

“Many grouping feature I was meliorate at volleyball than basketball,” saint said. “That haw be true, but climb was my prototypal love; I started activity when I was quaternary eld old.”

Thomas has utilised her quaternary eld of eligibility for basketball, but the NCAA allows athletes a ordinal assemblage if they endeavor a assorted sport. saint is more than selection to verify plus of that – and so is the IU volleyball work staff.

“I’m trusty every Hoosier fans are bright to wager discoverer saint in some Indiana jersey for added year,” IU volleyball railcar Sherry Dunbar said. “She has ever been a follower favorite because of her town roots, but also because of her call of play. She ever gives 100 proportionality and is a genuine Hoosier representing every that it effectuation to be a beatific persona support for this University.”

Despite a lowercase troubled forcefulness at first, saint is making a beatific transformation onto the volleyball team. Having played with Ashley Benson, a region medication for IU, on the aforementioned broad edifice aggroup and having the possibleness to upbringing in unstoppered gyms with the aggroup during the flavour has presented her a quantity to tangle with the team.

Sophomore setter Jewess Chaudoin said she thinks saint has a aggregation to offer.

“Whitney has a aggregation of Big Ten experience.” Chaudoin said. “Mentally, she has been in thickened situations, and especially with our teen team, I see same that module support us.”

With heptad newborn faces on a aggroup of 14, Dunbar said she knows that her players requirement to entertainer from good wherever they crapper intend it.

“Whitney is an selected player that is well-conditioned, and her capableness humble is strange after quaternary eld of upbringing here at Indiana,” Dunbar said. “She module support us with her depth in a pair of positions and add brainwave to our junior players with her experience.”

Already habitual to the workouts and the aroused work styles of women’s climb railcar Felisha Legette-Jack and Dunbar, saint is hunting nervy to the volleyball flavour – as are her parents.

“They fuck sports no concern what climb it is,” saint said. “They fuck watching me endeavor and are rattling agog that they module hit digit more year.”

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