This Foote Delivers Big Kick to Cavs;Freshman's Outside Shot a Booster for U-Va.

From: The Washington Post | Date: February 6, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

High expectations accompanied Monick Foote to college last September, when she arrived at Virginia as the national girls basketball player of the year. But Foote also arrived with the reputation of a player who makes uncompromising demands of herself. Her mother, Bobbie, wouldn't have it any other way.

Foote was 14 and playing for the Philadelphia Belles Amateur Athletic Union team when she came across a play she just couldn't master. She was to receive a pass after cutting to the corner, and then shoot a jumper. She missed the shot three straight times, leaving her mother disgusted.

"She told ...

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