Being a walk-on is not easy. It is not for the feeble minded. It is not for players who crave attention. But it is for players who want others to succeed. That’s why Jada Martin, a junior from Winnsboro, South Carolina, was rewarded the first ever walk-on spot under coach Cara Consuegra in her six years at the helm for the Charlotte 49ers women’s basketball team.
“We needed players that were going to come in and be unselfish and be committed to making us better,” Consuegra said on Martin. And boy did she strike gold.
Not only is Martin a walk-on basketball player who shows up for every practice and basketball game without receiving a dime from the university, she is also a double-major at Charlotte, juggling computer science and mathematics in the classroom.