Article: Hoosier Megan Roark: From walk-on to starter

Kevin Dwire
University Wire
03-03-2005
(Indiana Daily Student) (U-WIRE) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Many athletes give up the dream of playing college sports soon after they graduate from high school. They wait and wait for recruitment letters and visits from college coaches. But eventually, day after day of peering into empty mailboxes spells disappointment. They pack their letter jackets and trophies into boxes and stuff them into the back of the closet, accepting their fate.

Junior pitcher Megan Roark is not one of those athletes.

"The only recruitment letter I ever got was for the University of Delaware's volleyball team," Roark said. "I wasn't even that good at volleyball."

The only college ...

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