Virginia Union basketball standout savoring senior season

Coach Barvenia Wooten-Cherry
Virginia Union University

PETERSBURG, Virginia -- Riverdale Baptist High School (Md.) graduate Vicki Collier likes to believe that life situations occur for a reason. But she could not have predicted that she would be playing basketball for her mother — Barvenia Wooten-Cherry — at her mother’s alma mater, Virginia Union University.

“I don’t even know how to explain it,” she said. “I played for her when I was little. That coaching relationship was always there. But being at the school she wanted to coach at and for me, attending there and playing for her, it’s just not something I ever thought would happen.”

Collier is enjoying a strong senior season, and last week she was named Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Player of the Week. The 6-foot forward is averaging 17.6 points and 9.8 rebounds per game. But she has had quite a journey to her final year of college basketball.

Upon graduating from Riverdale Baptist in 2006, Collier was one of the best girls basketball prospects in the ...

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