So I think that was always a worry , but my parents were really great with like having me do other things , and I had a lot of friends that played different sports , so I dipped my toe into other things too . Yeah , so my recruiting process started when I was pretty young . And I didn't even , I had college coaches asking me like , what I wanted to major in , and I was like , I don't even know what position I want to be in college because I was like still growing .
So I think just considering all of that , I knew that this was a place I wanted to come to , and it was a place that I wanted to like make better by the time I left . So , when you're interacting with college coaches to be yourself . Because if you find that someone doesn't want you , like that is a blessing to know , because you want to go somewhere where you're wanted and where like you have a good relationship , so you don't wanna , you don't want them to fall in love with the version of you that's not authentic to yourself , so I'd say be yourself , and then also when you're on the court to Um , like , not , it's not all about just like how many points you score , all your stats .
I'd say some challenges that I faced , especially growing up , was figuring out how to balance , wanting to be great . And getting all these opportunities playing at the college level while also Um , like socializing , having friends , like being a normal kid , and I think that took me a while to figure out cause you always worry about like burning out or doing too much . But um for me , I was able to kind of like make friends and socialize through basketball and then like do outside activities like hot yoga , go for walks and lifting with other athletes from other sports , and I think that kind of fostered .
Yeah , so my recruiting process started when I was pretty young . And I didn't even , I had college coaches asking me like , what I wanted to major in , and I was like , I don't even know what position I want to be in college because I was like still growing . Um , so that happened really early and then it picked up really fast and it was very overwhelming and I just knew like , I think it came to like my sophomore winter , sophomore spring and I was like , I just want to commit .
Hi , I'm Claire Keswick . I'm on the women's basketball team at Northwestern University , and you can check me out at Next Level Prep .
