Lauren Handy Signs Letter of Intent with University of Vermont
thursday november 12, 2014
Lauren Handy
signed a national letter of
intent to attend the University
of Vermont on an athletic
scholarship for basketball
Wednesday night at her home
amongst family and friends and
former coaches.
The seventeen
year old power forward received
over seventy-five letters over
the last few years from American
and Canadian University who were
interested in her.
"It just seemed
like it was too good to be
true. When coaches started to
call that’s when it hit “I can
do this”. Handy said
Handy who says
she was a late bloomer to
basketball because her interest
was soccer and she didn't want
anything to do with basketball.
But because of her height she
was convinced to give it a try
and in grade six she made the
switched and never looked back,
In grade seven she began playing
in the Valhalla Basketball
program, then later when she
entered high school at Northern
she played as a senior starting
in grade nine.
Handy tried out
for Team Ontario where she was
selected from over 100 players
across the province to represent
the Province. In the summers of
2012 and 2013 she spent a lot of
time in Toronto training and
competing in International
tournaments and the highlight
was representing Ontario at the
Canada games in 2013 in
Sherbrook, Quebec where Team
Ontario won. Handy feels because
of these tournament she received
a lot of exposure that helped
her get to where she is today.
Handy had a lot
of schools to choose from and
after narrowing it down to six
or seven she felt Vermont was
the school for her.
"I wanted
something different than Sarnia
and to experience something
different," Handy said, then
added "But one aspect that was
really important was the little
hints of home, the campus is on
a really big lake and it
reminder me of home. Burlington
isn't a huge city, it's like
Sarnia and I didn’t realize how
important those reminders of
home were until I was there."
Lauren is the
daughter of Rick and Pam Handy
and she has a 15 year sister,
Carmen who also plays
basketball.
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