http://thesportsseer.com/2012/01/11/megan-herbert-arkansas-razorbacks-loss-is-uca-sugar-bears-gain/Megan Herbert: Arkansas Razorbacks’ Loss is UCA Sugar Bears’ GainQuote:
Posted: January 11, 2012 | Author: evindemirel
The question begs to be asked.
How does a superstar prep athlete grow up in the backyard of the Razorbacks but not come close to signing with the program? No scholarship offer or even the hint of one?
Such was the case with college junior Megan Herbert, who is taking the University of Central Arkansas basketball program to new heights. Before she was a Sugar Bear, though, the Northwest Arkansas native was raised a Razorback fan. The five-foot-11 power forward starred at Shiloh Christian School in Springdale and played on summer traveling teams for more exposure. In the end, though, she was offered only one scholarship – to UCA. Naturally, Herbert remains grateful.
“I was more than ecstatic to come to UCA,” she says. ”It did not hurt my feelings at all” that Arkansas didn’t offer a scholarship, she adds...