Ella Hamlin, one of TCU‘s “Underfrogs,” the students who joined the women’s basketball team in January 2024 to save its season, earned a full scholarship Tuesday.
A year ago, first-year coach Mark Campbell fielded open tryouts from the TCU student body after a series of injuries and a shortage of players forced the Horned Frogs to forfeit two games.
Four students — who became known as the “Underfrogs” — joined the team and helped TCU scrap its way to the finish line, as a 14-0 start gave way to a 21-12 finish.
On Tuesday night, Hamlin, the only member of that quartet to return this season, was awarded a full scholarship by Campbell.
“Ella, we’re just super grateful for you,” Campbell said in a video of the locker room moment posted to Instagram. “When there’s adversity, most people run away from it. The ‘Underfrogs,’ adversity hit, and you guys decided to step up.”
Campbell chose a symbolic moment, after a 90-81 win over UCF, almost a year after Hamlin joined the team for the first time in last season’s Jan. 23 game against the Knights. The circumstances are different this…
