Heritage’s Camp signs with Anderson University for hoops
Heritage senior Ariana Camp has been playing basketball most of her life and that won’t cease to be the case once she earns her high school diploma.
Camp will be headed to South Carolina this fall to attend classes and play basketball for Anderson University. The Trojans are an NCAA Division II program that plays in the South Atlantic Conference, along with the likes of Carson-Newman, Lenoir-Rhyne, Tusculum and Lincoln Memorial.
“Anderson has been after her for a while,” Heritage head coach Eddie Bryant said. “I think it goes back about a year when they saw her playing AAU ball and wanted her in their program. She’s a heck of a player and any college coach would like to have her on their sideline. She’s long and athletic and she’s been working on her shooting a lot. She can pull out and hit the three now, although her best shot is still a little baseline jumper.”
Camp endured a season-ending injury as a junior and is currently battling an injury this season. However, as a sophomore, she earned plenty of playing time on a very good Lady Generals’ team, averaging 10.1 points and 4.8 rebounds a game.
“(Signing Day) meant a lot to me,” she explained. “Even when I got hurt last year, the (Anderson) coaches came up to me and said, ‘no matter what, we still want you’. It felt good to know that even though I was hurt, there was still somebody that believed in me enough, who still thought I could come back as good as I was before I got hurt. Everyone’s really close (at Anderson). It feels like family and just feels like a good place to go and play basketball.”