Leaving a Legacy
University of Florida point guard Sarah Lowe wants to be remembered for being more than a top student-athlete
By Kendra Hamilton
Her favorite movies are “Crash” and “Motorcycle Diaries.” During the 2004 presidential election, she got every player on the women’s basketball squad to register to vote. Last year, she was a finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship.
Who is this young prodigy? She’s Sarah Lowe, a 5’7” senior point guard from the University of Florida women’s basketball team and Diverse’s 2006 female Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar of the Year. And not only is she not your “typical jock,” she’s not even your typical college student.
“I guess you could say I’m pretty ambitious. I want to redefine the stereotype of what it is to be a student-athlete,” says Lowe. “For me, it would never be enough to be one dimensional — the athlete — or even to be two dimensional — the student and the athlete. I’ve always demanded the third dimension, too — being the student and the athlete and the engaged member of the community.”
If, however, Lowe were a one-dimensional athlete, she’d be a darned good one. She played high school ball at posh Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pa., and played with the AAU Philadelphia Belles for five years. Lowe also earned a finalist spot on the 2002 McDonald’s All-America team and was a 2001 All America Honorable Mention in Street & Smith’s magazine.
