Jolette Law was stunned by the numerous cameras crowding around her. Perhaps that’s part of the dream.
A dream that’s come true.
“I’m pinching myself right now,” South Carolina’s new assistant coach said this week. “I can’t believe all this is happening to me right now.”
The Florence native and former star at Wilson High is back in her home state after 23 years of crisscrossing the country, playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and coaching at Ball State, Rutgers, Illinois and Tennessee.
Coming back home was always a goal of hers, so when she received a note from Lady Vols coach Holly Warlick that Dawn Staley had requested permission to speak to her and then a call from Staley, she was nearly saying yes before the offer was out.