South Carolina will soon begin soliciting résumés from sculptors to create a statue of former Gamecocks basketball star A’ja Wilson outside Colonial Life Arena.
The school’s campus art advisory committee has approved the addition of the statue, it was announced Wednesday at a USC board of trustees meeting. When the artist has been chosen and design revealed, the project will go to the board’s design review committee and then to the BOT buildings and grounds committee for final approval.
Wilson, a native of Hopkins, was the three-time SEC Player of the Year and a three-time All-American and led the Gamecocks to the 2017 national championship.