<<One Journey Ends is Anothers Beginging>>

This week, since we do not have to write a specific blog I want to share something personal about myself. I am a senior on the UW-Parksides Women's Basketball team. I just played my last game this past Monday in the NCAA DII Sweet 16 game. Its crazy to me knowing that my basketball career is over with. I feel like its a bad break up in a way. I will be sad and depressed for a while but then I will find someone or something that makes me just as happy even more in some ways. I will never forget the past relationship and always love it but it helps you make the new one even better and appreciate it even more.

Its like the saying when one door closes another one opens. These next couple of weeks are going to be rough. I am going to have so much free time, it will be hard to fill that void. Basketball has basically defined who I have been since I was little. I just can't wrap my head around it; working hard towards something since 3rd grade and just like that it can be over with. Basketball has taught me so much over the years. It was always my escape from the real world. Nothing else mattered when I was on the court. I was able to block out everything else going on in my life, school and family and focused on the game.

We had an amazing journey. I got to play the sport I love with the people I love. I am truly blessed. Most athletes have to give up the sport they love once they graduate high school, I got four extra years with the sport I loved and met my best friends along the way. The hurt and pain will be easier but the memories will forever life on. Some things just can't last forever, but to me that what make them special now its time to set new goals and challenge myself in new ways. There is only one team that celebrates at the end of the tournament. We have a lot to be proud of. My senior class became the winningest class in UW-Parkside history and will leave with a career record of 89-31 (.742), two division titles, a GLVC Tournament runner-up, three NCAA Tournament berths, and two trips to the Sweet 16. We built this program and believed in the system and we gave it all we got for four straight years. Myself and 3 other seniors reshaped the UW-Parkside women's basketball program and leave as the most successful class in school history.