Cam Smith

USA TODAY High School Sports Hub

This is the gospel truth: The University of Miami hoops program is recruiting a 9-year-old girl.

Jaden Newman isn't a normal girls basketball player. The 9-year-old earned national headlines in January for playing on her school's varsity high school basketball team while still in fourth grade.

Yet she's now getting attention of a more formal kind that raises even more eyebrows: She's being formally recruited by a major collegiate program.