She Wanted a Law Degree. Instead, She Became a College Basketball Star.

Making it to the WNBA or setting incredible NCAA records never crossed Shakyla Hill’s mind when she arrived at Grambling State in 2015.

She had other aspirations. She wanted to be a lawyer.

Recording a quadruple-double in a game was never part of the plan. Getting two in a career wasn’t even a thought.

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But it happened for the student-athlete who preferred law over layups.

“I probably said my first two years a hundred times, I’m playing basketball to pay for school. I’m not in school to play basketball,” Hill told The Athletic. “But then the (first) quadruple-double happened, and it kind of just changed the trajectory of the things that I was

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