Friday, January 28, 2011

Carmen Reynolds

From the annarbor.com profile of Carmen Reynolds:

Borseth watched Reynolds again in the last game of the day. This time, he saw her making 3-pointers.
“She was a complement for a lot of things we do offensively,” Borseth said. “And it’s proved to be right on.”
That day, her father, Jim Reynolds, pointed to the Michigan coaches in the stands.
Father and daughter laughed. This, after all, was a family that trades Christmas cards with Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel because Jim Reynolds had been recruited by Tressel as a high school football player and played for Tressel ended up at Miami (Ohio).
The whole family was Ohio State fans. Her brother, Cody, played lacrosse for the Buckeyes.
Jim and Carmen even had a conversation when she was first considering playing college basketball about what would happen if Michigan was her only scholarship offer.
“She said, ‘Well, I guess I’d be a Wolverine,’” Jim said.
Not that the Reynolds expected it. There they were, two weeks after Borseth saw her in Cincinnati on an unofficial visit to Michigan. Then Borseth made his offer.
Hours later, Carmen committed to Michigan, the only major conference school to make an offer.
“I was a huge Ohio State fan,” Carmen said. “And we’re like ‘What the heck, we’ll go up and visit it.’ I remember going in and thinking I wasn’t going to like it because I was an Ohio State fan, but I fell in love immediately coming up to campus, met some of the coaches, meeting some of the girls on the team.
“Just walking around campus, learning about the academics, everything. This was the school, and I converted immediately to a Wolverine.”

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