Chalfont's Carey picks Loyola (Md.)

For Devon Carey, it was one of the first colleges to show interest. It was the first school she visited.
And Tuesday night, the Peddie (N.J.) School senior and Chalfont resident confirmed that she was in fact heading to Loyola (Md.) College where she would play basketball on an athletic scholarship starting in the fall of 2006. - College Football -
"Out of all of the schools, I made a couple of early visits, I fell in love with the campus," Carey, a shooting guard, said. "It's gorgeous. One of my coaches highly recommended it. It seems like a good mix of academics and athletics."
Carey said she chose Loyola over Boston University and Maine.
"I met the team. I just loved going down there (for the visit)," Carey said. "It's like a five-minute drive from (Baltimore's) Inner Harbor." - College Football -
Carey becomes the latest in the line of daughters of former Central Bucks West and current North Penn assistant football coach Mike Carey to commit to a Division I college for basketball.
Older sister Ashley will be a senior at Winthrop (S.C.) University this season. Brooke will be a junior at Columbia University. And younger sister Jesse played varsity as an eighth-grader last season at Germantown Academy.
Watching Ashley and Brooke go through the recruiting process definitely helped Devon.
"When I was sitting around watching them, I was thinking, 'That's so (many years) away from me, but it came up on me really fast,' " she said. "I definitely found the perfect school that fit me." - College Football -
Carey said teams started to show interest in her while she was playing for her AAU team, the Philadelphia Belles. The Belles traveled to Las Vegas, Florida, and Washington D.C. in the past year for tournaments.
Loyola was 10-18 last season. In May, the Greyhounds hired a new coach in Joe Logan, who was previously an assistant at Saint Joseph's University. One of the new assistant coaches, Erin Brady, was a standout at St. Joe's. - College Football -
Carey is excited about the opportunity she'll have at Loyola, where she said she might major in pre-med, and she's also happy to have the hectic and stressful recruiting process over with.
"It takes a huge weight off me," she said. "This is July and it's a big recruiting season. It's a ton of pressure. There are hundreds of college coaches at every (AAU) game. It can be a rough time." - College Football -

TODD THORPE
The Intelligencer