Big news this week….Elena Delle Donne, the most sought after and highly recruited female basketball player in the country, has asked to be released from her scholarship commitment at UCONN.
She was provided with a personal trainer from age 7.
She was obsessed with being the best, always afraid someone was working harder than she was. Her skills seemed to be exceeded only by her maniacal work ethic.
Elena Delle Donne towered over the competition. The 6-foot-4 guard from Wilmington, Del., could handle the ball as easily as the expectations. She could shoot like Larry Bird.
She was on the fast track to greatness until her heart began steering her in a different direction.
"About age 13, I thought, 'I don't know if I want to do this anymore,'" Delle Donne says. "'It's not fun.'"
But fun was never the objective. Delle Donne was the consensus 2008 Naismith National High School Basketball Player of the Year. She saw herself as the future of women's basketball. So did most everyone around her. She was supposed to follow her idol, Diana Taurasi, to Connecticut, win four national titles and become a superstar in the WNBA.
The problem is that the three-time State Champion, three-time AAU National Champion and McDonalds All-American says she’s just burned out on basketball.
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