KINGSPORT, Tenn.— If there was ever a representation of a player who chose to continue their athletic career at Middle Tennessee State because it represented exactly what home felt like for her, it'd be hard to argue against Lady Raider forward Courtney Whitson, a Kingsport, Tennessee, native.
Over the past four-plus years, the close-knit women's basketball team at Middle Tennessee has enjoyed one of its best stretches under Head Coach Rick Insell's tutelage, and right in the center of that has been Whitson, who has started in all 124 games she's played in her career, tied with Patrice Holmes for second most in program history and just eight starts away from breaking Ebony Rowe's record of 131.