Women's Hoops Blog

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Sunday, July 19, 2009

From Five Boro Sports:
To put it mildly, Adia Revell is facing an uphill climb.

Her task: to build a Division I junior college women’s basketball program – from scratch – in one of the toughest cities in the world. The Brooklyn native will welcome her first recruiting class to ASA Institute in her home borough this coming fall, just one year after the school started an athletic department.

“It’s probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” the 25-year-old Revell said. “But I would have said that about my first year of playing Division I basketball and I would have said that about my first year transferring [colleges]. It was definitely a learning experience.”