Lockhart a Model on Basketball Court

Forget Elden Campbell.

Samantha Lockhart would much rather be like Naomi Campbell.

Lockhart, a forward on the Glendale High girls’ basketball team, has always dreamed of becoming a supermodel.

The 6-foot, blond junior made her print debut in the current issue of Teen Special Great Looks magazine. She is featured in a four-page spread on the newest exercise techniques and trends.

Lockhart is pictured riding an exercise bike, using a weight machine and cooling down.

“It wasn’t very tiring,” said Lockhart, who appeared in a beauty pageant two years ago and finished in the top 10 of 156 contestants. “More than anything else, it was constant make-up. I never actually worked out.”

Lockhart got her break last summer while attending her younger sister’s softball game, when she was discovered by Teen Special’s talent scout, a mother of one of the softball players.

Now, she’s becoming a pseudo celebrity along the same campus hallways that movie star John Wayne once walked.

“People say, ‘Watch out. There’s a supermodel coming down the hall,’ ” Lockhart said. “Everyone’s kind of excited.”

Chances are Lockhart will probably appear on the cover of Cosmopolitan before Sports Illustrated.

“I wish I could be in the WNBA, but I don’t think I’m good enough,” said Lockhart, who is averaging two points and two rebounds for Glendale, the second-place team in the Pacific League.

That’s OK with Lockhart.

“Ever since I was 4, I’ve always dreamed of being a model. This is what I really want.”