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No days off anytime soon for Ruffin-Pratt

By Jon Mahoney
ESPNRISE.com

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Former T.C. Williams girls' basketball coach Jim Lewis hosted a horde of top women's college hoop coaches at the Alexandria, Va., high school last fall. They came in droves to watch his star guard, Tierra Ruffin-Pratt, during open gym. Before leading them to the court, Lewis would tell the coaches that Ruffin-Pratt would be the first person in the gym. "That happened 100 percent of the time," says Lewis, who's now an assistant coach with the WNBA's Indiana Fever. This wasn't anything pl ...

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