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Ogden women’s basketball star says mom’s murder doesn't ‘define’ her

Ogden • There’s a bright star on the Weber State University women’s basketball court who easily could have chosen a life of darkness.

“Reality hit me harder, faster at a really young age,” Welch-Coleman said in a video featured at the WSU Cat Bash, an event that raised $62,000 for student-athlete scholarships.

“She goes out there and puts everything on the line every time,” said Devan Newman, the assistant women’s basketball coach at WSU. Newman takes pride in having discovered Welch-Coleman while attending a high school game near Berkley, California, to recruit a different player.