Thursday, September 14, 2006

MELANIE MURPHY: READY TO CONTRIBUTE

Interview by Bob Iacopi

Photos by Don Anderson

Of the four recruits entering the Stanford women’s basketball program this Fall, the Long Distance Travel Award goes to Melanie Murphy, who comes to us from the concrete jungle of Brooklyn, New York.

Mel, as she is known to everyone, is a city girl start to finish. “I was born in the city, raised there my entire life, learned all my basketball right there. Our home is in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn—actually the Flatlands, but nobody knows where that is. Everybody knows Flatbush as the site of Ebbetts Field, the original home of the Los Angeles Dodgers.”

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