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SALEM, Ore. -- Ever since third grade, Evina Westbrook called The Hoop in Salem her second home. Shes one of three people to have a key. She clocks in at 6 a.m. each day before school starts to work on her game.On Thursday, The Hoop was full of supporters eager to see where Westbrook, the class of 2017s No. 2 prospect, would call home. After an hourlong ceremony, Westbrook revealed she had picked Tennessee.A 6-foot guard, she joins a number of players from Oregon to pick Knoxville, including current Lady Vols Jordan Reynolds, Mercedes Russell and Jaime Nared.I felt it on my visit, Westbrook said. I honestly wasnt considering them too much. I went on my visit and instantly couldnt get Tennessee off my mind. From then, I felt in my heart that it was the right place to be.With the addition of Westbrook, Tennessee looks like a solid No. 2 in the class rankings behind UConn, which added No. 1 Megan Walker earlier Thursday night. In addition to Westbrook, the Lady Vols have commitments from No. 9 Anastasia Hayes and No. 55 Kasiyahna Kushkituah.Tennessee is believed to still be in the running for No. 10 Michaela Onyenwere and No. 12 Rennia Davis.During the ceremony, Westbrooks high school and club coaches told old stories about her. Her family even pulled up highlights from her early days playing basketball against the boys.The Westbrook family had custom T-shirts printed Thursday morning. Eva, her mother, said Evina decided on Tennessee on Monday morning. Coaches from the other finalists -- Oregon State, Notre Dame, Maryland and USC -- already knew Thursday that she would sign elsewhere.Coaches from Tennessee, who didnt know about Westbrooks decision beforehand, watched her ceremony on a Facebook stream.Knoxville here I come, Eva said. I always told Evina from a young age that if she goes to Mars, thats where Ill go.We knew she wasnt going to stay close to home.Evina said seeing the gym full with teammates, family and friends made the day all the more special.Its an unbelievable feeling to have so many people come out and be here to support me, she said. It shows how much I mean to the community. It meant so much to me.Just after she announced, Westbrook kept it simple: Go Lady Volunteers.I think its a huge opportunity for her to step in and play right away, said Kelly Sopak, Westbrooks coach on the Cal Stars AAU team. The schools that she had narrowed it down to -- that was a big thing.Now Westbrook will turn her attention back to South Salem High School. The program is looking for its third consecutive state title, and Westbrook said she is ready for the challenge.Shes helped us put our school on the map, so to speak, with her individual success and our team success, South Salem coach Nick McWilliams said. 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Jessica Ennis-Hill claims she will be at ease in retirement having feared injury issues could ruin her goodbye from athletics had she carried on.The 30-year-old heptathlete last week called time on her career and elected not to aim for next years World Championships in London, which will be staged at the venue where she claimed Olympic gold in 2012.The golden girl of British athletics had the chance to bid farewell to the public at a parade in Manchester on Monday as an estimated 200,000 lined the streets and applauded 350 Team GB and Paralympics GB athletes for the 214 medals the teams accrued in Brazil.And while the mention of Ennis-Hills retirement was booed by fans hoping she would continue, she insisted the call was prompted by a worry over her ability to maintain top physical condition.My body cant cope with the volume of training that it used to, she told BBC Sport. It was that fear of, Do I push on that one more year and potentially get injured and come away disappointed?Doing the heptathlon, youve got to be 100 percent motivated; you have to want to do the training or youre not going to get anywhere with it.The past couple of years, Ive struggled with injuries and Achilles problems. Id have sessions that would go really well but then Id be injured for a few days later.Do I say, Im in a really nice position here, Ive achieved what I wanted to achieve and more and do I walk away feeling really happy and satisfied? Thats what I wanted to do.Ennis-Hill steps away from athletics as the most decorated heptathlete in history but insisted she will not be filling her time with chasing any sort of celebrity status.Instead, she admitted she was looking forward to spending time with son Reggie and adding new faces to the family with her husband Andy.Ive been asked to do a couple of reality shows, shhe told the Daily Mail.dddddddddddd I enjoy watching them but its not something that I really want to do. I love Ant and Dec and Im a Celebrity but I just couldnt do it, Im too scared of spiders.Its not about earning loads of money. Im really comfortable in life and I want to have time to enjoy it. I want to spend time with Reggie and my future kids. I want to enjoy things and be passionate about what I do. I dont want to be overloaded.Ennis-Hill was not the only gold medallist in attendance in Manchester on Monday as the likes of Alistair Brownlee, Jade Jones, Nicola Adams and Max Whitlock all braved the driving rain to celebrate their achievements in South America back in the summer.Its been fantastic to see this support, we spend so much time away that you dont always get a sense of what we have at home, said Brownlee, who won triathlon gold ahead of his brother, Jonny.I saw so many people at the side of the road with so much enthusiasm -- the cheering, the signs -- it was really spectacular.The crowd were already aware of Ennis-Hills future prior to the parade but the next step for flyweight boxer Adams, a champion in London and Rio, is yet to be determined.Bouts in the professional ranks have been mooted, as has a possible bid for a third Olympic crown in Tokyo in 2020, but the 33-year-old was guarded on the subject of her future on Monday.Im not sure yet, I need to sit down with the team and decide where Im going to go next after Ive had a holiday, she said.Seeing everyone who has turned out and seeing so much support out here, Id just like to say thank you to everyone. Being here as a two-time gold medallist and having the support of the nation is unbelievable. ' ' '