16-year-old Marlana VanHoose, who sang the National Anthem before the UK vs Ole Miss women's game on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.
The Johnson Central student, who is blind and was born with Cytomegalovirus, got a visit at midcourt from UK Women's Head Coach Matthew Mitchell before the game.
"It was really moving," he said. "I told her before tipoff, it really brought tears to my eyes. It was the best performance we've ever had here at Memorial Coliseum. What an unbelievable voice on a little bitty girl like that."
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
For pure raw emotion though, I'll take this one -- from earlier tonight -- at the first big event since the bombing (a Bruins hockey game):
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
