Beech Tree News Network

Kentucky basketball commit Blair Green of Harlan County felt like she had a good relationship with most everyone at her school. Still, she was not prepared to be picked as the school’s homecoming queen.
“I wasn’t really expecting it. I am friends with most everybody in school and they all told me I had pretty good chance. But you just never expect something like that,” Green said.
She was in no hurry to take her crown off even though she gets to keep it.
“It’s sitting on my jewelry box now but I didn’t want to take it off,” she laughed and said.
She would like to add another crown of sorts this season. Her goal is to become Miss Basketball like her friend, and current UK junior basketball player, Maci Morris did at Bell County.
“That is definitely a goal I work toward every day. It’s really exciting just to be nominated. To win it would be such a great honor,” Green said.
Her mother, Debbie Green, is her high school coach and a former UK player. Blair Green has been not only doing conditioning work but staying in the gym to get up extra shots and lift weights.
She’ll be taking her official visit to UK this weekend so she can attend the Kentucky-Florida game Saturday at Kroger Field.
“I am trying to enjoy a lot of exciting things right now. I am trying to do as much as I can to have fun and still get ready for my season and then going to UK,” Green said.
She’s taking several dual college credit courses to give her a head start academically at UK. She hopes to have about 20 hours of college credit when she enrolls at UK in June.
Green is considering a major in communications — where her personality would be a perfect fit — or pharmacy — where the earnings potential would be a lot higher.
“Coach Mitchell has said with the hours I will have that I could graduate and then get into pharmacy school my senior year,” Green said. “But I also think communications would be a natural for me. So we’ll just see what happens there.”