Ali stopped in at Glasstech last Friday. It was great to see her and it's obvious she's excited to be the first BGSU women's basketball player to go pro! She's got a great opportunity to head to Luxembourg a week from now and I'm sure she'll do us proud!
She said she's been in contact with Josh Almanson who played for the same organization's men's team and she's promised to buy her mom a cottage on Lake Michigan when she gets back to the WNBA!!
Good luck, Ali!! We're all going to be watching and rooting for you!!!
Grant Cummings
ROLL ALONG!!!
"We are linked to this institution by invisible bonds that do not wither or dissolve." --BGSU President, Dr. Ralph W. McDonald - 1968
You may be right, factman... I just made an assumption. Anyone know of other professional female Falcon athletes?
Grant Cummings
ROLL ALONG!!!
"We are linked to this institution by invisible bonds that do not wither or dissolve." --BGSU President, Dr. Ralph W. McDonald - 1968
Jacobs4Heisman wrote:Didn't Lindsay Austin latch on with some sort of traveling team after she graduated?
I'm thinking she went to Germany to play. Didn't she tell us that at the tournament game at Purdue?
Maybe that's it. I don't remember. I think maybe she was on some sort of Ohio All-Star team out of Columbus the year after she graduated, and then went overseas.
Great to hear, G. Ali is my fave women's hoops player of all time....She just has it all. I hope she stops by the Fall Sports Event Sat before getting on that Jet to Europe on the 27th.
At any rate...KICK TAIL, ALI!!!!!!!!
Michael W.
BGSU-12 TIME MAC CHAMPION
FALCON FOOTBALL ROCKS!
BTW... the car her team provides her with is SWEET!
Grant Cummings
ROLL ALONG!!!
"We are linked to this institution by invisible bonds that do not wither or dissolve." --BGSU President, Dr. Ralph W. McDonald - 1968
Ali wrote:The orange paint on the front of the rims is worn off and the first thing I thought of when I saw that was Coach Miller always yelling at us in practice to "get off the front rim" and "don't be short."
Did anyone else laugh out loud at this quote?
Great news for Ali and it sounds like she is going to do very well.
"Science doesn’t know everything? Well science KNOWS it doesn’t know everything… otherwise it’d stop."
Dara O'Brian - Comedian
Ali wrote:The orange paint on the front of the rims is worn off and the first thing I thought of when I saw that was Coach Miller always yelling at us in practice to "get off the front rim" and "don't be short."
I'm going to go out on a limb here...having coach Orr at 6'-8/9" and coach Miller at something closer to 5ft than 6ft, we have the widest disparity of height between same gender head coaches in all of NCAA division 1 sports.
It's not the fall that hurts...it's when you hit the ground.
Flipper wrote:I'm going to go out on a limb here...having coach Orr at 6'-8/9" and coach Miller at something closer to 5ft than 6ft, we have the widest disparity of height between same gender head coaches in all of NCAA division 1 sports.
Did a search on this to see if it could be confirmed. Here is the most popular result:
Ali sounds like she is going to have a great career in professional basketball. I have to say, I was very surprised that she didn't get any tryouts with WNBA teams...I think she will definitely earn her way there though. Good Luck Ali!
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The quote is a reference to the paint on the front of the rim being worn off from shots that fall short. Miller isn't instructing his players to somehow "get tall" but rather to get the ball to the rim with more power.
But of course you all knew that, right? I completely am missing your sarcasm??
