She Rules

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Updated: April 4, 2024

Spring Garden’s Rule parlays move to Spring Garden into three state titles in two sports, chance to play college basketball.

**Spring Garden’s Chloe Rule delivers a brief but emotional speech during Thursday’s ceremony to mark her signing with Wallace State Community College. (Photo by Joe Medley)**

By Joe Medley
East Alabama Sports Today

SPRING GARDEN — Chloe Rule transferred to Spring Garden for reasons, and those reasons actualized Thursday.

The all-state center on two state-championship basketball teams and hitter on one state-title volleyball team will get her chance to play college basketball.

**A television screen in Spring Garden’s gym showed a slide show honoring Chloe Rule during her signing ceremony Thursday. (Photo by Joe Medley)**

Rule signed Wednesday to play for Wallace State Community College, choosing the Lions over Gadsden State, Snead State, Berry College and LaGrange.

“I had been offered by a few different colleges, and I was waiting until after we finished with our season to make a final decision,” Rule said. “I knew that Wallace had a great program, and I watched the Shelton State game at the end of their season.

“I went to see them play live, and they looked amazing. I liked their play style, and I felt I could fit.”

The 6-foot-1 Rule averaged 11.8 points and 4.9 rebounds for Spring Garden in 2023-24, giving the Panthers the inside presence to balance with point guard and Alabama commit Ace Austin and shooters like all-state guard Libby Brown.

“She’s been a huge asset to our program,” Spring Garden coach Ricky Austin said. “Her size automatically brought something to us, her length, but the thing that she was so good for us was the length getting up and down the court.

“She has very good feet, very good in transition, and just being able to have a big body on the court gives us another dimension that we most definitely didn’t have before she got here.”

She transferred to Spring Garden ahead of her junior year from Hokes Bluff, joining a program that now has nine state titles in girls’ basketball.

“It did everything,” Rule said. “It increased my basketball IQ. It got me in better shape. It let me see things.

“All together. It was just a better place, a better scenario for me. I had better looks. The work ethic was matching what I wanted to get done, and I think that helped a lot, too.”