Two-time Ivy League basketball all-star Christine Clark was unable to play in her unofficial “homecoming” last week at ASU. Sidelined by a sprained ankle, Clark, a senior guard averaging 19.4 points, was greeted by many of her laboratory scientists from the UA Cancer Center, including Dr. David Alberts, director emeritus of the school’s Cancer Center. Clark spent the last three summers in Albert’s cancer-prevention research lab, which included a complex microscopy on biopsies of women at high risk for cancer of the cervix. If Clark’s post-Harvard basketball days don’t include the WNBA or European basketball, she plans to enter medical school.
Basketball short stuff: Ivy League athetics, academics star Clark misses chance to play at ASU, but runs into UA peers from summer medical studies
Tucson's Christine Clark, #24, center, reacts with her teammates on the bench during the the fourth quarter of the 5A-I girls basketball tournament quarterfinal game at Cholla High School on Feb. 26, 2010.