University of Minnesota Athletics
Her Home Away From Home
1/13/2011 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
By Larry Watts
Contributor, BigTen.org
To say Williams Arena has been a second home for Kiara Buford would be a bit of an understatement.
The St. Paul, Minn. native may have been more familiar with the University of Minnesota basketball court than any other recruit when she first donned the Golden Gophers jersey back in 2008. By that time, she had already spent three years as a ball girl for Gophers' home games and she had played on the court three times in the state tournament for nearby St. Paul Central High School.
"From third through fifth grade, the coach on my traveling team would have us come over here to be ball girls," the 5-foot-11 Buford says. "I remember being so nervous to go on the court because there were so many people here."
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