Hailey Van Lith (Photo via Imagn Images)
TCU star Hailey Van Lith is not too far away from being selected in the WNBA Draft.
She has been tearing up the floor in what will be her final year in college.
TCU and Van Lith have been re-writing history books all season long, but there is one thing you will not find out about Van Lith on a stat sheet.
Van Lith was asked Sunday about the length of her legs.
The reporter had previously heard something about it in the past and wondered if it was true.
According to Wesley Branch of USA TODAY, her left leg is half an inch shorter than her right.
“It’s true,” Hailey Van Lith said via NCAA transcripts.
“Yeah, that’s true. It’s a long story, you guys; I don’t share everything with you! It is, and it does — there’s a lot of physiological issues that I deal with because of it. My whole right side is stronger and bigger. My hand is bigger, my foot is bigger, my quad is bigger. You can see it if you really look at me if you’re around me a lot.”
The length of her legs impacts her game, as she explained. However, she has become used to it.
“I definitely always prefer to plant off my right leg,” Van Lith said. “I think fading to my left is more comfortable because the leg is shorter so it probably doesn’t really touch the ground as much. Just weird things like that, but, yes, that’s true, and I deal with it every day.”
Hailey Van Lith Is Back In The Elite Eight For The Fifth Time
Hailey Van Lith (Photo By Amy Kontras-Imagn Images)
Van Lith scored 26 points and grabbed nine rebounds to send TCU to a 71-62 victory over Notre Dame and into the first Elite Eight in program history.
In doing so, Van Lith set TCU’s single-season scoring record (663), and her 26 points were a single-game NCAA tournament record for the program.
This will be Van Lith’s fifth Elite Eight appearance with her third team.
It goes without saying, but Van Lith is the first player — in men’s and women’s basketball — to achieve that feat.
Her first three seasons were played at Louisville. She played in three Elite Eight games.
Last season, she shocked everyone by joining LSU and getting to the Elite Eight again.
The 5-foot-9 graduate student then made her way to TCU, and here she is again for the final time.
VIDEO: Some Dude Just Dropped The Cold Hard Truth On Why All Of These NFL Prospects Are “Dating White Women”
Unless this is your first day in America, then you know race relations in this country dominate just everything, and that includes NBA and NFL drafts
During the most recent NFL Draft in Detroit, social media was buzzing as athletes showed up to the red carpet event with their girlfriends and family. Many of the incoming NFL rookies were African-American and were spotted with white women, which has become the usual theme for years.
The same thing happens with the NBA Draft.
This year, the discourse on the NFL Draft and NBA Draft has gotten even louder as African-American women openly pondered why so many of the players never have a partner that is the same race as them.
One guy on TikTok decided to answer that question by revealing that the vast majority of his division-1 friends in college or headed to the league are dating or married to white women and explained why.
He stated that some of them had told him that their white girlfriend looked up to Taylor Swift while their girlfriend looked up to Megan The Stallion. He then states the guy asks how many white women he has seen doing the Megan Thee Stallion challenge as opposed to Black women.
He then dove into another story of a friend who relayed that his Black girlfriend started to request money from him as soon as she found out about his NIL money. She wanted her hair and nails done. He then added that the Black women would be upset if they went to places like Chipotle, and she demanded steak houses.
