Lady Vols coverage by Maria Cornelius (September 28 to October 6, 2011)

Maria M. Cornelius is an Inside Tennessee senior sportswriter for Inside Tennessee.com providing basketball coverage of the Tennessee Lady Vols.

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The free articles in this set include:

• Practice starts next week for Lady Vols: The Lady Vols held their final workout of September on Tuesday and will report next week for the official start of practice with a team that seems ready to run.
• Lady Vols hosting batch of recruits: Within hours of Pat Summitt’s announcement that she had dementia, the cell phone of a recruit’s mother rang four times with out-of-state numbers that she didn’t recognize. It was precisely that reaction that Draya Carter wanted to stop, which led to her announcement that same day that her commitment to the Lady Vols would not change.
• Precious Memories: This feature story about Barbara Dooley and her husband Vince Dooley and their son Derek Dooley ran in the football preseason issue of Rocky Top News. It is being re-run on the website this week in advance of the Tennessee-Georgia football game.

The articles requiring a Premium subscription in this set include:

• Lady Vols begin basketball practice: Practice officially kicked off Wednesday for the Lady Vols in an advanced session that looked more like midseason than early October with not even the freshmen distracted by a national news crew following the team and coaches around the court.