The Sweet Life Of Jocks

October, 2001

No one enjoys college like an athlete. That became Clear to me when I was an all-state high school volleyball player in New York and spent a weekend as a guest of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. I fell in love with the place--and became a Lady Vol. I was a nonscholarship female athlete who tat on the bench for a team that wasn't going to the NCAA tournament. But even I had privileges other students did not have. All athletes had access to the best computers on campus, personal academic...