Reusse: McCarville brings world experience to high school

[Ignatius L Hoops]

Reusse: Gophers basketball legend Janel McCarville brings experience back to her hometown in Wisconsin

Former Gophers star Janel McCarville played professional basketball in eight countries and now brings that experience back to her Wisconsin alma-mater.

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STEVENS POINT, WIS. – This is a city of more than 25,000 people with one public high school. The district also serves smaller outposts in the region and is known to all as SPASH, as in, Stevens Point Area Senior High.
Janel McCarville’s address was Custer, a dot on the map 7 miles from Stevens Point. “Three bars and a post office, that’s Custer,” she said.
McCarville, now a member of the SPASH Athletic Hall of Fame as a basketball player, was recruited for the University of Minnesota by coach Cheryl Littlejohn. “Cheryl was on me from the get-go, the first major school to offer me,” McCarville said. “I appreciated that.”