Muldrow Basketball Muldrow seniors Hannah Boyett and Madison Chambers, two of the standouts on the Lady Bulldogs’ high school basketball team, signed national letters of intent last Wednesday inside t
Muldrow Basketball
Muldrow seniors Hannah Boyett and Madison Chambers, two of the standouts on the Lady Bulldogs’ high school basketball team, signed national letters of intent last Wednesday inside the Roger Sharp Activity Center.
Boyett, a 5-foot-7 guard, will play at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith (UAFS) and Chambers, a 5-10 guard, will play at Oklahoma Baptist University (OBU) in Shawnee.
Boyett and Chambers are both three-year starters and the pair helped the Lady Bulldogs finish 26-3 last season. In 2017-18 Muldrow reached the semifinals of the Class 4A state tournament, won the Sequoyah County and Checotah tournaments and finished second in the Tournament of Champions. The Lady Bulldogs, one of the favorites to compete for this year’s 4A state championship, also won district, regional and area titles last season.
Hannah Boyett
Boyett will stay close to home next year when she crosses the Arkansas River to play for head coach Tari Cummings and the Lady Lions.
“I’m pretty excited,” Boyett said last Wednesday. “I’m glad my teammates are here for me, my family’s here, and I’m glad everyone can come out and make it. Just a little nervous but I’m excited to see what the future holds.”
Boyett said she was recruited by UAFS this summer.
“I got recruited over the summer,” said Boyett. “Coach came to one of the (travel team) games and saw something in me that she really wanted. They feel like a family atmosphere so I just kind of went with that decision.”
Muldrow girls’ head coach Jana Armer is looking forward to watching Boyett at the next level.
“I’m very proud of Hannah,” Armer said. “This young lady’s put in work for years starting when I had her in fifth grade and you knew then she was special. She’s the definition of a gym rat, in here all the time, and she’s worked hard for this opportunity. I’m really excited for her and excited for the fact that she’ll just be 15 minutes down the road and we can go watch her play all the time and she’ll continue to be a part of our program.”
Cummings had high praise for Boyett.
“I am so excited to have Hannah join our family,” Cummings said in a press release. “She is a very tough player with a high basketball IQ and great feel for the game. Hannah has a great skill set with the ability to shoot the ball, her passing ability showcases her court vision and her work ethic completes her game.”
UAFS, a four-year public university, is an NCAA Division II institution and a member of the Heartland Conference.
Madison Chambers
Though her college destination is further away, Chambers is also excited about playing at the next level for OBU head coach Casi Bays and the Bison.
“I’m real excited to embark on this new journey that I’ve been blessed with,” Chambers said. “It’s definitely something that, if you would ask me two years ago if I would have thought about, it probably wouldn’t even be on the radar but I think that just growing up, playing basketball and then getting to experience state and just having such a great team really helped me to choose to keep playing because it’s something I love to do.”
The OBU coaches spotted Chambers in the summer when she was playing with her travel team.
“I played a lot of elite tournaments this summer with a travel team and OBU started talking to my coach,” said Chambers. “It was a period where they couldn’t talk to the players at all so they talked to my coach about me, and he let me know that they were interested. I didn’t even know if I still wanted to go play but they stayed with me the entire summer and they came and watched me at tournaments and they offered in late July.
Armer is also proud of Chambers.
“I’m also very proud of Madi and excited for the opportunity that she has as well,” said Armer. “Madi is one of the hardest workers I’ve ever had in terms of on the court, diving on the ball and constantly, constantly go, go, go. I’m glad that she’s got the opportunity to continue her playing at the next level. Oklahoma Baptist is getting a great kid and a top-notch student on top of being a great player so I’m very proud of Madi.”
OBU, a four-year private Christian liberal arts university, is an NCAA Division II institution and a member of the Great American Conference.
