WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[jaybird44]

It seems that I have been the only member of the only (unofficial) fall sport at WashU, with my 100-mile ultramarathon attempt earlier this month to promote the fight for a cure during Rett Syndrome Awareness Month.  That attempt fell a bit short in miles and fundraising, so I'm going into overtime to try and reach $5,000 in donations.

Rett Gets Rocked 50K for $5K will commence Friday, October 30 at 8 pm Central, and end at 8 am Halloween morning.  Counting donations received (thanks to retired WashU men's basketball coach Mark Edwards and his wife Mary, and to Mike McGrath and his  University of Chicago men's basketball program for their donations!) and those yet to be sent and processed, I am at $4,440.53.  Very, very close to my goal...which will fund a researcher's work for a month.  Wouldn't it be cool if he or she cracked the code for a cure of Rett syndrome, on our dime?!

I reached 86 miles in my "Rett Gets Rocked Virtual Ultra Weekend" October 3-4.  I'm very proud of that result, but there's more work to be done.  Proceeds from the event will be split between Rettsyndrome.org (the only national organization spearheading research and providing resources for affected patients and their families) and the Rett Spectrum Clinic--a collaboration between the WashU School of Medicine and St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Rett syndrome is a rare, non-inherited neurological disorder that is caused by a gene mutation in the brain.  It primarily affects girls (1 in every 10,000 girls develop Rett).  It strikes typically when a child is 6-18 months old, and it has the characteristics of ALS, autism, epilepsy, and Parkinson's...all rolled into one sinister disorder.  It takes away the child's ability to move and communicate. 

In essence, Rett does to a child what Lucy in the "Peanuts" comic strip does to Charlie Brown when he tries to kick the football that she is holding.  The only difference is that Charlie Brown can get back up to try again.  Those who are afflicted with Rett syndrome don't get another chance to enjoy a vibrant life.

Researchers are working to re-engineer the gene mutation that turns on Rett, so it can be forever turned off.  Four drug therapies are in the FDA review pipeline, with one (trofanitide) one level away from review.  And, iPad tablets with retinal scan technology are giving those with Rett a voice they haven't had since they were toddlers.

The full court press on Rett is paying off.  You can help keep the pressure on Rett, by going to my Rett Racers donation page:  https://rettracer.everydayhero.com/us/rett-gets-rocked-2020

Thanks for your time and consideration, and hopefully there will be basketball to play and broadcast at the start of 2021!

Jay Murry
Play-By-Play Announcer, Washington University in St. Louis
Event Director, Rett Gets Rocked 50K for $5K

[RogK]

the new Carroll roster :
https://gopios.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/2020-2021
apparently not returning are Sierra Grubor, Amanda Hooks and Hailey Herriges

[RogK]

North Park has a new roster :
https://athletics.northpark.edu/sports/womens-basketball/roster/2020-21
Missing are Jacki Rapp, Kayla Patterson, Kendra Jackson, Yesenia Rodriguez. The latter two didn't play much last season. Patterson and Rapp played in all 26 games, averaging 7 and 19 minutes respectively.

[Gregory Sager]

I'm not sure yet whether any or all of these four NPU student-athletes are taking a gap year, as so many other college students are taking in 2020-21 due to the pandemic, or if they've left the program and/or the school for good.

[RogK]

Thanks for pointing out that possibility, Greg. Answers may not be known until October or November of '21.
After a couple of years seeing Adairsville GA on the NPU roster as hometown of Josie Summerville, I finally looked where 'tis on a map.
To my surprise, US route 41 goes through Adairsville and it also passes through Chicago, less than a mile east of North Park's gym. That could be a tedious ride to take, although one might be rewarded by seeing some old neon motel signs.

[Gregory Sager]

Yep, U.S. 41 is Lake Shore Drive up to the Foster Avenue exit, then it is Foster Avenue into the neighborhood of Bowmanville, just east of campus. At that point Lincoln Avenue takes up the stripe on the map and is U.S. 41 up into the north suburbs.

You can't tell the difference in terms of the actual streets. The parts of those thoroughfares that are U.S. 41 are thus part of a federal highway (technically, it's called the U.S. Numbered Highway System). It's a common misconception that the federal government is thus responsible for U.S. 41 and its ilk. It's not; these highways have always been built and maintained by state and local municipalities ... which means that there's as many cracks, potholes, and patches on Foster Avenue east of Bowmanville as there are where Foster borders the NPU campus.

[Jester1390]

Some leaving may also be due to academics and or just tired of playing a sport and  want to move on. Rose-Hulman unforuntaly lost a player who made all freshman confrence team and had off the chart athletic talent.  Also a great young lady who just decided her academics were more important and basketball just wasnt as important for her.  Huge loss for the program but she is more happy and that is what matters. Also with them still being so young they have no juniors or seniors it allows another player to step up.

I would be curious from any other parents of current players on here.  Do you think your daughter or any of their teamamates will take the extra year.  Im pretty sure there will be no girls from Rose that will. Rose has 98 percent job placement  for them by the time they graduate. I could only see that happen if a job was paying them for taking a masters. I talked with some dads that have kids in the MIAC and they said the same thing.   Lol of course dad would like the kid to play anothe year. Told her well even if you get a job find a school in that state and take a couple of courses. lol the reply dad i cant play forever and  her brother really needs to have kids so i can concentrate on them

[Jester1390]

That is a huge loss fo Carroll . the one girl scored 23 a game. Rog  do you know anything about that school. I feel bad for them they have good people on their staff they had talks with my daughter but they didnt have majors she was looking for.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Some leaving may also be due to academics and or just tired of playing a sport and  want to move on. Rose-Hulman unforuntaly lost a player who made all freshman confrence team and had off the chart athletic talent.  Also a great young lady who just decided her academics were more important and basketball just wasnt as important for her.  Huge loss for the program but she is more happy and that is what matters. Also with them still being so young they have no juniors or seniors it allows another player to step up.

I would be curious from any other parents of current players on here.  Do you think your daughter or any of their teamamates will take the extra year.  Im pretty sure there will be no girls from Rose that will. Rose has 98 percent job placement  for them by the time they graduate. I could only see that happen if a job was paying them for taking a masters. I talked with some dads that have kids in the MIAC and they said the same thing.   Lol of course dad would like the kid to play anothe year. Told her well even if you get a job find a school in that state and take a couple of courses. lol the reply dad i cant play forever and  her brother really needs to have kids so i can concentrate on them

A fair number of athletes, especially at high academic schools, are taking gap years to intern or work some place.  From what I understand, in addition to missing their sport, they're also not getting the full academic experience due to COVID changes and feel it's worthwhile to delay things.

[RogK]

Grubor was Carroll's top scorer in '19-'20, with 255 pts in her 23 games, averaging 11.1.
We'll need to check if she's on the softball roster in the Spring.
She had a bunch of good games, but wasn't the focus of their offense in several other games.

[Jester1390]

Well i have written about my daughter and her team on this site but tonight i get to announce a huge personal achievment and i have to tell you a place i could never imagine.

I want to say how happy i am I get to Appalude or Smite people.  This is a moment that I doubted would ever come with there only being 9 pages in i dont know 20 years for the HCAC page when I first posted.

We now have 37 pages and I just want to say thanks to those that helped me get to this place. First grace be to God and then of course RogK and even though we are bitter enemies FCGrizzlies and also Baldini where the hell are you and my brother in arms Engineer. Without them we would not have been able to more then triple the amount of pages for HCAC  I could possibly also not mention Gregory Sager and the legend even though he has never taken time to respond to a post from me Mr. Yipsi.  Also a shout out to the best announcer i ever had call a game of my daughters and was very gentle on the freshman laden team the great voice of  jaybird.

Last but not least even though we had a tiff at one timea big thank you to Pat Coleman who without this site I wouldnt get to brag about my daughter.

I look forward to smiting all of you and maybe every once in awhile a pat on the back

[Gregory Sager]

Some leaving may also be due to academics and or just tired of playing a sport and  want to move on. Rose-Hulman unforuntaly lost a player who made all freshman confrence team and had off the chart athletic talent.  Also a great young lady who just decided her academics were more important and basketball just wasnt as important for her.  Huge loss for the program but she is more happy and that is what matters. Also with them still being so young they have no juniors or seniors it allows another player to step up.

I would be curious from any other parents of current players on here.  Do you think your daughter or any of their teamamates will take the extra year.  Im pretty sure there will be no girls from Rose that will. Rose has 98 percent job placement  for them by the time they graduate. I could only see that happen if a job was paying them for taking a masters. I talked with some dads that have kids in the MIAC and they said the same thing.   Lol of course dad would like the kid to play anothe year. Told her well even if you get a job find a school in that state and take a couple of courses. lol the reply dad i cant play forever and  her brother really needs to have kids so i can concentrate on them

A fair number of athletes, especially at high academic schools, are taking gap years to intern or work some place.  From what I understand, in addition to missing their sport, they're also not getting the full academic experience due to COVID changes and feel it's worthwhile to delay things.

Your second sentence appears to me, Ryan, at least from anecdotal evidence, as being a very high motivator for taking a gap year. I think that a lot of young people who are paying an arm and a leg for their college education -- or who carry a healthy sense of responsibility about the fact that Mom and Dad are paying an arm and a leg for their kid's college education -- want to make sure that they get the proper value for all of that money that they're giving to their school's business office every semester or every quarter. And they see all of the online learning and draw the conclusion that they're not getting their money's worth (remember, most college students had a dry run at the whole online-learning thing last spring) and have decided to wait it out until the vaccine appears and schools sound the all-clear and go back to full-menu classroom learning again.

The loss of sports, or the diminishment thereof, is an additional motivator for student-athletes at the D3 level. But I think that the perceived lessening of the entire college experience (which includes what takes place outside the classroom as well as whether or not there's a classroom at all) is really the engine behind a big part of the gap-year mentality. Seems a shame, too, because all of the college instructors that I know have busted their humps trying to learn how to reconfigure both their pedagogical style and their curricula to teaching online rather than in person -- and they have to overcome a lot of obstacles trying to teach those classes that are still meeting in-person as well. (Ever tried talking for fifty minutes through a mask?) But you can't argue with the fact that students pay a lot of money for a college education, and they deserve to get what they're paying for.

[RogK]

To offset Hannah Frazier's graduation, a new Hannah has joined Wheaton, so they again have three.
All ten non-seniors from last season are back :
https://athletics.wheaton.edu/sports/womens-basketball/roster/2020-21
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[Jester1390]

 Hey Rog  on wheaton I know a little bit about Schwen. productive high school career but played for a very small school and lowest class for basketball. She  accomplished this nice milestone

notable achievements this week belong to Lily Schwen of Southwest Christian in Chaska, who set a school record for career assists. Schwen passed 2005 graduate Kylie Dirks who had 439 helpers.

She want ranked in the top 150 for her class but that doesnt allways mean something especially playing at  a small school

they also had a transfer in from Terrant county college which doesnt have sport teams  very small guard 5'4.  She has to have talent though not sure how all state works in Texas but her bio says she made all state

[RogK]

Jester1390, do you remember seeing Schwen play? If so, could you say she looked like a good defensive player?
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note to Wheaton : the roster info for Ms Turner has "Terrant" but it should be "Tarrant"