TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- Tameka McKelton dreamed of playing basketball overseas one day. That was going to be her plan once she graduated from Florida A&M. But that all changed in December 2010. McKelton learned she was pregnant. Five months after the basketball season ended, McKelton gave birth to her daughter, Auria. The date was August 20, 2011.
Now, she doubles as a student-athlete and a mother.
"It's pretty challenging as far as being able to keep track with everything," she said. But nobody - her coaches, her friends, her family - knew about her pregnancy until the end of her junior season. "Roughly, I played about two or three months pregnant," McKelton admitted.
The West Palm Beach native feared she would get kicked off the basketball team. So she hid her secret from everyone except for her boyfriend and one of her teammates.
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