After four years at Rutgers, Kia Vaughn will play for the Liberty this season
Every day of school for four years, Kia Vaughn would get off the subway from the Bronx at Penn Station and walk past Madison Square Garden on her way down 33rd St. to St. Michael Academy. The small all-girls school with a gym that has a low ceiling and concrete columns throughout the court is where Vaughn’s basketball dreams began.
Those dreams have come true as the 6-4 center now calls the Garden home.
“It’s a big leap,” Vaughn said yesterday of going from being one of the city’s top high school players to a first-round selection (eighth overall) by her hometown Liberty in last month’s WNBA draft. “It’ll be an inspiration, I hope.” Read more..
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