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  • Former ASU basketball player Michelle Tom helping Navajo Nation fight coronavirus

    Alexander Weiner, Cronkite News|Updated Jun 15, 2020

    PHOENIX, Ariz.-The life of a college athlete can be stressful. Balancing academic and sports or taking the game-winning shot against a Top 10 team involves pressure. Former Arizona State basketball player Michelle Tom did both, including a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to down No. 7 Washington in 1999. Now she deals with more serious stress: treating coronavirus patients in an underfunded community hospital for Native Americans. Tom works for the Little Colorado Medical Center in...