um I didn't want to go somewhere really cold and I was kind of looking at some other uh southern schools to go first and the University of Wisconsin was actually recruiting um one of my teammates and happened to see me on the same field and was like oh you know she's a she's a pretty good athlete and I came here attended a camp and then September 1st they reached out to me which was awesome got on a phone call with coach and coach Z absolutely love the environment Wisconsin was my very first visit and I committed about a month and a half later and yeah, I enjoy every second of it . Yeah, I think um at its at its foundation, being a part of the recruiting process, regardless of uh what level you're being recruited at, whether that's high, power four, D1 levels, or all the way down to D3, Jo, community colleges, I think what's most important to me and what I would give other high school athletes advice of would be to just really live in the moment . I mean, you are getting an opportunity to do something that thousands, hundreds of thousands other girls would wish they were in your position, right ?
to be a role model is I'm really getting to be maybe even the first time a little girl has looked at a division one athlete playing softball . I think whether they're, you know, young, they're just starting out, starting in the T-ball stage, or they're getting up to the point where they're being recruited, I think regardless, I am going to be able to reach athletes at that stage and give them not only a um encouragement, but also let them look at a raw story of somebody who has gone through the recruiting process, who is doing NIL uh deals, who is, you know, pursuing a difficult degree . I think that being a role model in that sense where I am at now, I think gives a lot of girls encouragement in, you know, pursuing their dreams, whether that be in a at a high level division one softball school or at a D3 school and variety of majors .
and being able to take a step back and not comparing myself to those athletes and knowing that I myself am a good player and that regardless of how I perform that game or how he or she performs that game that um I am doing the best that I can . I feel like I have a really cool recruiting story, especially when it comes to the University of Wisconsin . Sophomore to junior year summer, which is in most athletes cases would be your quote unquote big summer when college coaches are really starting to look at you and can contact you September 1st of your junior year .
I feel like I have a really cool recruiting story, especially when it comes to the University of Wisconsin . Sophomore to junior year summer, which is in most athletes cases would be your quote unquote big summer when college coaches are really starting to look at you and can contact you September 1st of your junior year . Um, Wisconsin was not on my radar in the slightest .
Um, Wisconsin was not on my radar in the slightest . um I didn't want to go somewhere really cold and I was kind of looking at some other uh southern schools to go first and the University of Wisconsin was actually recruiting um one of my teammates and happened to see me on the same field and was like oh you know she's a she's a pretty good athlete and I came here attended a camp and then September 1st they reached out to me which was awesome got on a phone call with coach and coach Z absolutely love the environment Wisconsin was my very first visit and I committed about a month and a half later and yeah, I enjoy every second of it . Yeah, I think um at its at its foundation, being a part of the recruiting process, regardless of uh what level you're being recruited at, whether that's high, power four, D1 levels, or all the way down to D3, Jo, community colleges, I think what's most important to me and what I would give other high school athletes advice of would be to just really live in the moment .
