Q: What are your expectations for the rest of the season?
A: We want to go down to Nationals and win it. That is everyone’s goal which is to go down there and win that big prize.
Q: With ‘Senior Night’ having passed, what are your thoughts on the departing seniors?
A: It is really sad especially because this past year Mo [Riley] and I stayed in the same room during road trips and freshman year I got really close to her. Romisha Taylor this year, we have been really bonding. It is nice to be so close to the team, but it is sad to see them go. I know that they are going to do well in whatever they choose to do.
Q: Your sister is an assistant coach for this team, what does it mean for you to have her around?
A: It is really nice because you have family always there. She knows since I was little how much more she can push me before it gets on my nerves. She’s a coach now and you have to think Coach.
Q: Next season will be your senior year, are you ready to take over the leader role?
A: I am ready for it. It is scary to say “senior” since it is your last year, but I am ready for it and I am ready to help my team like they have helped me in the past.
Q: What made you get in to the game of basketball?
A: It was my dad. We always played in the back behind the barn. We played horse and two-on-two; I was always on my dad’s team because I was the shortest. Of course we dominated anyways, but I guess I am just following in family tradition. I love it.
Q: Do you have any role models?
A: My dad has been one of the biggest role models for me because he always gave so much and expected nothing. I live in his old footsteps.
Q: What made you come here to Saint Xavier?
A: Jackie [Heine] went here and I loved how the campus was and how the community was. Also, Coach Hallberg, because I heard how good of a coach he was and playing for him has been a real honor for me.
Q: What is something that the typical person does not know about you?
A: I was actually in the band and color guard in high school.
Q: What is the best advice you have ever received?
A: Don’t take life too seriously and don’t become a workaholic because there are more important things in life than just work.
Q: What would your message be to someone who is interested in playing basketball?
A: Play with all of your heart because if you don’t have your heart, you’re not doing anything fun and you’re not going to enjoy it. Give everything you have got because you never know.
Q: Fill in the blank; I’m a blank and proud of it.
A: I am a women’s basketball player and a student at Saint Xavier and I am very proud of it.
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Greg Pilafas
Deputy Editor in Chief