FAYETTEVILLE — As the academic semester came to an end this week, Arkansas women’s basketball players shifted their focus from preparing for final exams to getting ready for a game.
For experienced players like junior guard Emily Robinson, it was nothing new to sort through a busy schedule of studying for tests, practicing and watching film. But for freshmen on the team such as Bonnie Deas and Harmonie Ware, it was their first rodeo juggling all that comes with the end of classes.
“It definitely can be stressful,” Robinson said. “But after [exams were] done, it was just focusing on the game that we have ahead of us.