Twins Overcome Hardship Through Basketball Scholarship
by Laura Thompson My schedule has not permitted me to blog daily like I did when I first established TAAN, but I had to post this story. My little cousins just recently graduated from Wagner High School. They were not expected to succeed because of some of the trials they experienced as little girls. Most people know twins Adriane and Aundrea Davis as the dynamic defense duo on the basketball court who propelled an underdog Wagner High School team to regional and state tournaments. But the two seniors, who graduated Tuesday at the Alamodome , privately faced many challenges, using a tumultuous home life as a springboard to personal success. They were 2 when a man killed their mother over drugs. They lived with their maternal grandmother in Corpus Christi until age 10, when she developed Alzheimer's disease. They moved in with their sister, then 23, back in San Antonio, sharing a room with two nephews for the next few years. Their grandmother no longer recogn