Article updated: 11/15/2012 3:08 PM

Vernon Hills' Bennett-Swanson breaks new ground

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Vernon Hills senior Meri Bennett-Swanson poses with her parents, Shane Swanson and Susan Bennett, after signing her national letter of intent with DePaul University on Wednesday.

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Meri Bennett-Swanson might have started a run on DePaul University T-shirts that one day when she decided to buy a bunch for her BFFs. She might have started another run Wednesday, when the lefty, who can sink running hooks, signed her name on a national letter of intent with DePaul. In a dozen seasons of varsity girls basketball at Vernon Hills, the Cougars had never boasted a Division I player until their 6-foot-2 senior made her commitment to the Blue Devils official in front of family, friends coaches and other staff members in the high school library.