Once upon a lifetime ago, Shelly Pennefather was the sweetest of shooting stars, an All-American at Villanova and the 1987 national player of the year. Since 1991, she has lived here, in the Poor Clare Monastery, at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in a very modest middle-class neighborhood.



The opening paragraph of an article by Jack Wilkinson of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:



Former Villanova Star Trades Hoops For Monastery