Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
After the 68-57 victory over Ohio University and the post-game attagirls in the locker room, Wright State’s Amaya Staton, still in her No. 32 uniform, returned to the Nutter Center court and would stay long after all her other teammates had left.
But she didn’t remain to revel in another night’s hefty performance — 11 points, 11 rebounds — her third double-double in a row for the Raiders.
The only numbers that seemed to matter to her afterward were the half-dozen family members from northeast Ohio and Columbus who had come to see her play and now congregated around her; and the equal number of excited little girls who stood nearby, waiting to get an autograph and hopefully a verbal acknowledgment.
Until then, they watched her every move, somewhat in awe over what they had seen from her on the court and now, up close, where they could study her long mane of hair cascading down her back and those manicured pink nails — “I like to add some razzmatazz,” she’d joke later — still perfect after muscling inside all night against the Bobcat players.
The scene wasn’t lost on Staton, the 6-foot-1 fifth-year player who transferred here this season after playing three years at Merrimack College in Massachusetts.
“I’m just so grateful for all this,” said Staton as some emotion welled up in her voice. “I know it sounds so cliché, but at the end of the day I truly am where I am meant to be right now.”
