Armstrong transferred to the University of South Florida in 2003, which was a red shirt season in accordance with NCAA regulations.
The school initially did not want to allow her to do this, and Armstrong lost her scholarship in the first week of September of that year.
On September 11, the school announced it was going to back off and let Armstrong wear modest athletic attire for their basketball games, and re-instate her scholarship.
Ahmed Bedler, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, was present at the reunion, and he declared that "An athlete should not be asked to choose between engaging in healthy sporting activities and her deeply held religious beliefs".
In October, Armstrong also left Florida and returned to Oregon, where she e-mailed a local newspaper her reversion to Christianity and renunciation of Islam, and regretfully retracted her conversion to the latter.