This is the first in a series of articles celebrating Black History Month and the 50th anniversary of women’s athletics at UNI.
Shantel Twiggs has mentored hundreds of athletes from all over the globe and coached athletes to the highest levels of NCAA competition. Before that, she represented the United States on the global level after a record career at UNI, but it might have all been different if it wasn’t for a phone call and a leap of faith.
Twiggs weighed her options. It was the summer of 1990 and she had graduated high school in St.