Andrea Armstrong
Center, Basketball Player
1982 –
Who is Andrea Armstrong?
Andrea Armstrong is an American who is a former NCAA basketball player.
After a stellar high school basketball career, Armstrong began her collegiate sports career in 2001, with the Kansas State University basketball team. She played for Kansas State until the 2002 season. She was a 2002 Academic All-Big 12 selection.
Armstrong transferred to the University of South Florida in 2003. 2003 was a red shirt season in accordance with NCAA regulations. She was team Co-Captain for the 2004 Season. She claimed to have converted to Islam soon after her arrival at the Florida campus.
Armstrong created a controversy when she requested to be allowed to play in Islamically appropriate attire. The school initially did not want to allow her to do this, and Armstrong lost her scholarship on the first week of September of that year.
On September 11, the school announced it was going to back off and let Armstrong wear modest athletic attire for their basketball games, and re-instate her scholarship. Armstrong and school officials had met the previous day to discuss her reinstatement. Ahmed Bedler, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, was present at the reunion, and he declared that "An athlete should not be asked to choose between engaging in healthy sporting activities and her deeply held religious beliefs".
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- Born
- May 18, 1982
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of South Florida
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on July 23, 2013
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