Plymouth High School is proud to announce on Tuesday senior Hunter Stevens officially signed a full ride 4-year athletic scholarship to continue her successful basketball career at Hillsdale College in Michigan.
Hunter has a grade point average of 3.773 and is ranked 43rd in her class of 287. Hunter said, “I am extremely grateful that I was able to receive this full ride athletic scholarship; I think of it as a gift to my parents, so they don’t have to pay for my college education. It is truly the least that I can give them, after all they have given up and done for me throughout my entire four year high school and AAC athletic career.”
The Hillsdale College women’s basketball program is in the Division II Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Since 2002, Hillsdale has appeared in the NCAA Division II tournament four times.
Full ride scholarships seem to run in the family! Hunter’s Mom, Angie Hunter Stevens, who graduated from PHS in the 80’s, received a 4-year full ride scholarship to college to play volleyball and her grandmother, Mary Beth Hunter was so athletically skilled at tennis when she was a student at South Bend Riley, it landed her a seat in the Indiana Tennis Hall of Fame!
Hillsdale isn’t the only college that offered the high school standout a full ride scholarship. Darren Stevens, Hunter’s Father says, among the others were:
• Belmont Abbey College, in Belmont, North Carolina
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
• Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio
• The University of West Florida, also known as West Florida
• Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee and
• Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina
Hunter’s dad, Darren was athletic too and so is Hunter’s older brother Sam who graduated last year from PHS and plays football at Bemidji St. University in Minnesota!
