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Drury University men’s basketball head coach announced that Chris Carr will join the Panthers coaching staff as an assistant. Carr played six seasons in the National Basketball Association and played professionally for two years overseas. He was a second round draft pick of the Phoenix Suns in 1995 and saw time with the Suns, Timberwolves, Nets, Warriors, Bulls, and Celtics. While playing for Minnesota in 1997, he was the NBA Slam Dunk Contest runner-up as Kobe Bryant won the event that year in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Lauren Holtkamp-Sterling remembers feeling vulnerable, but not intimidated. It was early in Holtkamp-Sterling's young basketball officiating career, years before she'd ascend to the NBA level. The setting was a local recreation center in her home state of Missouri, where she'd previously played four years of college basketball at Drury University before becoming a referee. Holtkamp-Sterling, now 40, had just finished officiating a youth boy's game as the solo referee. As the buzzer sounded, the father of one of the boys in the game approached and accosted her over her gender. "[He] confronted me and told me I didn't belong there, working that game," Holtkamp-Sterling recounted years later. "In that moment, he was being very clear -- there was no micro-aggression or anything: 'I'm going to tell you exactly that I don't think you belong here doing this.'"

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