NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jordyn Cambridge has one season left as a basketball player, she hopes, and even if everything is healed and strong and she reaches a new level of play on the court as she believes possible, that will be it.
When you’ve earned a spot in a Vanderbilt University graduate program, you’ve achieved something. Many a Vanderbilt athlete has tried and failed and finished eligibility elsewhere. When you’ve done it twice, as Cambridge now has, you have made the most of an academic opportunity and will probably have all kinds of them outside of basketball. When you’re rehabilitating a torn left Achilles tendon, strengthening a leg that suffered a torn ACL two years earlier — which is still in better shape than the leg that suffered a torn ACL in high school and never regained full range of motion — you’re going to think outside of basketball.
But one more season of it? Without hesitation. Cambridge plans to get her second master’s degree as a sixth-year point guard for the Commodores in 2023-24.
“This isn’t ending until it’s my choice for it to end,” said Cambridge, and she wants that badly and is working toward that, for many reasons, one of them certainly to experience what Sunday was supposed to be for her and her family.
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