Senior Post

Lone senior, Jessica Shotts, speaks about her last season as a Pioneer and how basketball will be a part of her "next step":

Coming into this year's basketball season, I am quite excited that I get to spend my last college season with my current team. All of the women mean something special to me and for that same special reason, I think this year will be a great one. As a senior, I am hoping that we can come out in the top 4 of the conference and make it to the conference tournament this year. In my three years this has never happened and I don't even think it happened a couple of years before I came. I can only imagine how it will feel to continue on into the post season, and I really think that this can become a reality for us. I also want to use my last season as a way to build on my basketball knowledge and to take note of things from a coaches perspective. Many people know that someday I want to pursue coaching, but I am not sure yet if that will be in high school or college. I am going to decide that in the next two years when I (attempt) to try out both levels of play.

Although I am really excited and grateful to have such a wonderful team for this season, I can't ignore the fact that I will be sad once this season ends. My life has always revolved around basketball and now it seems like that physical aspect of my life will be coming to an end. For me, coming to terms with this is going to be very difficult. I am sure I will keep playing in some sort of league after college, but it will never be the same as a college game. Regardless, basketball has always been in my life and it will always be in my life. You can just ask my parents how many times they had to hide my basketball or pry it out of my hands for me to even go to bed or to do my homework. The love I have for basketball will never die, and will remain strong even after my college career is over. So right now, my main focus is to take each day as it comes and make each day the best because that is all that I can control!