Ebook {Epub PDF} The Rebounders: A Division I Basketball Journey by Amanda Ottaway

From high school playing and recruiting, to accepting the new life as a scholarship college student, to setting an example for teammates and young women yearning to play basketball at a Division I level, THE REBOUNDERS carries Ottaway from aspiring youth to a grounded and level-headed adult ready to take on the world.5/5(7).  · Overview. Unlike the stories of most visible Division I college athletes, Amanda Ottaway’s story has more in common with those of the 80 percent of college athletes who are never seen on TV. The Rebounders follows the college career of an average NCAA Division I women’s basketball player in the twenty-first century, beginning with the recruiting process when Ottaway is an eager, ISBN  · A Division I Basketball Journey. University of Nebraska Press. Book release date: March 1, Division I college basketball wasn’t quite what Amanda Ottaway and her teammates expected it to be. In The Rebounders: A Division I Basketball Journey, Ottaway walks readers firsthand through the experience of a high-level women’s hoops team, from the recruiting process .

Mar 6, Excerpted from "The Rebounders: A Division I Basketball Journey" by Amanda Ottaway by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. © by Amanda Ottaway. It was a Monday night. Unlike the stories of most visible Division I college athletes, Amanda Ottaway's story has more in common with those of the 80 percent of college athletes who are never seen on TV. The Rebounders follows the college career of an average NCAA Division I women's basketball player in the twenty-first century, beginning with the recruiting process. Ottaway's book,The Rebounders: A Division 1 Basketball Journey, is a sobering, very inside account of her experiences at Davidson. In a way, Ottaway pulls down the curtain on March Madness. Among many lessons that Ottaway learned at Davidson: Her full scholarship, her "free ride," isn't exactly free. Strings are attached.

Overview. Unlike the stories of most visible Division I college athletes, Amanda Ottaway’s story has more in common with those of the 80 percent of college athletes who are never seen on TV. The Rebounders follows the college career of an average NCAA Division I women’s basketball player in the twenty-first century, beginning with the recruiting process when Ottaway is an eager, naive teenager and ending when she’s a more contemplative twentysomething alumna. However, it is Division I, and their players are talented and on scholarship. Ottaway’s book,The Rebounders: A Division 1 Basketball Journey, is a sobering, very inside account of her experiences at Davidson. In a way, Ottaway pulls down the curtain on March Madness. Amanda Ottaway is an author and journalist whose work has appeared in Glamour, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, VICE, espnW, Washington City Paper, Charlotte Magazine, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and a few poetry anthologies. She currently works as a senior employment reporter in Law’s Manhattan office. Her first book, The Rebounders: A Division I Basketball Journey, was published in by the University of Nebraska Press.