Women of the Grizzlies: How Memphis tries to inspire girls
From left to right: Sydney Neely (host), Chelsi Day (Grizzlies team psychologist), Jordan Horston (WNBA player) and Rochelle Stevens (1996 USA gold medalist sprinter) were panel speakers at the Grizzlies Girls Summit on March 7. (Drew Hill/The Daily Memphian)
When Seattle Storm guard Jordan Horston landed in Memphis for her first-ever trip to the city this week, she didn’t need to search for where to go.
Horston, who is from Ohio but starred at the University of Tennessee from 2019 to 2023, had a list of places she needed to visit waiting in her phone.
Among them was Cozy Corner Restaurant and the National Civil Rights Museum; the list’s sender was someone she knew she could trust. In fact, her tour guide from afar said if she wasn’t so busy, she would have tagged along.
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Drew Hill
Drew Hill covers the Memphis Grizzlies and is a top-10 APSE winner. He has worked throughout the South writing about college athletics before landing in Memphis.
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