How Sylvia Fowles Balances Being a Lynx Star and a Second Life Dealing With Death

• The Minnesota Lynx star talks about balancing her basketball responsibilities while working toward a degree in mortuary science.

On every off day of the 2017 WNBA season, Minnesota Lynx center Sylvia Fowles woke at 6 a.m. There would be no team activities, no media obligations, no film study with teammates. Fowles went dark. By 6:30 a.m. she was in her car, merging onto I-94, the highway that would take her north and west out of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, two hours into rural Minnesota.

Around 8:30 a.m., Fowles would cross the Douglas County line …

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