TYLER, Texas (KETK)-- From the hardwood to the field, one woman at Kilgore College is creating a new path for athletes in East Texas as the school's first African American female athletic director

Courtny Pruitt knew from an early age she was a natural athlete..

"I was in taekwondo; I was very successful in taekwondo, I was actually a first-degree black belt and was a national champion on that level, but then my love went to basketball," Pruitt said.

With her natural athleticism, Pruitt was able to leverage her academic and athletic abilities to take her skills and education to the next level, becoming a student-athlete at Lon Morris College.

"I played here in this conference in a school that's no longer open, which is Lon Morris College in Jacksonville, and the story became full circl

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