Lady Vols hosting batch of recruits

Within hours of Pat Summitt’s announcement that she had dementia, the cell phone of a recruit’s mother rang four times with out-of-state numbers that she didn’t recognize. It was precisely that reaction that Draya Carter wanted to stop, which led to her announcement that same day that her commitment to the Lady Vols would not change. Andraya Carter ’s mother, Jessica Lhamon, broke the news to her daughter on Aug. 23 when Pat Summitt ’s announcement broke across the Internet.

“I told her what it was and her question back was, ‘What’s dementia?’ ” Lhamon said in a phone interview Wednesday with Inside Tennessee . “I told her what dementia was and she said, ‘Is she OK now?’ And I said, ‘Yes, she is fine now.’

“And she said, ‘Who do I need to contact to say that I am still committed to the University of Tennessee?’ It was that quick. It was three questions and then that was it.”

Carter and her mother made contact with Brandon Clay of Peach State Basketball, a well-known figure in girl’s basketball, and asked him to put out the word that she was still going to Tennessee. Clay noted such on his Twitter page.

Carter, who is from Flowery Branch, Ga., also made contact with Inside Tennessee and the News Sentinel in Knoxville to reiterate her commitment.

“We’ll still get letters here and there from different coaches,” said Lhamon, which occurred before the announcement by Summitt. “Those are from the ones that don’t really know Andraya that well. Because if you know Andraya you know that once she gives her word, that’s her word for life.”

The good news for Lhamon and her daughter is that the phone calls stopped immediately after Carter’s public statements. Lhamon can’t be certain the callers were coaches – she didn’t answer the phone – but she said she doesn’t use the cell phone that often and any incoming calls are generally people she knows from Georgia.

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Lady Vols hosting batch of recruits
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Carter, who is from Flowery Branch, Ga., also made contact with Inside Tennessee and the News Sentinel in Knoxville to reiterate her commitment. “We'll still get letters here and there from different coaches,” said Lhamon, which occurred before the



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