1998

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At left: Moncrief (55), with Lady Tiger teammates Angela Ellis (32) and Arletha Moncrief (44). Above: Moncrief (34) re– cently attended a mini-camp at Missis- sippi College for the Missis- sippi/Alabama All-Star Basketball

teams. From left: Sandra Sumrall, West Jones, Administrative Coach; Moncreit Mickey Miller, Hatley, All Star Girls' Coach; Harold Liggans, Port Gibson, All– Star Girls' Coach. The teams report to Mississippi CoJiege on June 9 for practice; the games will be played Saturday, Jtme 13, at A.E. Wood Coliseum, Mississippi College, Clinton, beginning at 1 p.m. Lady has chance to become Warrio_r

help push a team to performance levels that S~'t school records, accept an offer to play basketball for a community college next sea– and then put m a dress and attend a thout usmg me mgle ~forthe~~ year~, knows the mo.:anmg of the word-. "hard work." Her ability to play basketball was not ach1eved Wlth the wave of a fairy god– mother's magic wand. No Moncrief earned her ability the old– fashioned way. She worked for it. Since the third grade. "When I was in thtrd grade, I didn't know how to play basketball. My PE coach, Eve– lyn Bender, said I could nm and dribble well for my age, so she started working with me, per tN

Keith Justice Once upcn a hme, in a very nice country tren noted more fox its

dasses and went to ball gamest show p– port .tor boytncnds who ran tor touchdowns or shot hoops. Where sports were concerned, it was the boys who lived happily ever af– :.er. But this ain't no fairy tale. This is a story about the gritty reality of hard work and lots of sweat--not the more polite perspimtio11, mind you, but the kind of honest-to-God sweat that comes from put– ting in thousands of hours of training, prac– tice and conditioning.