Tonya Sampson of UNC's 1994 NCAA title team plays her first season for Carolina Queens

Posted Jun 28, 2009
Long before Tonya Sampson was a college basketball star, she was playing football with the boys on the grassy fields of Royal Lane Park in Clinton.An all-American on the UNC Tar Heels' 1994 NCAA championship basketball team, Sampson is now playing her first full season for the Carolina Queens women's professional football team. (Charlotte Observer)

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