Pros vs. Joes No. 9: Mikayla Pivec pivots to comfortable spot playing in Spain
It has taken her awhile, but my favorite female athlete in Oregon State history is finally having a rewarding experience playing pro basketball.
Rueck: ‘We’re confident, we’re gritty. That’s what it takes this time of year’
Patience, a poet once wrote, “is a companion of wisdom.”
I’ve grown to appreciate Scott Rueck’s wisdom since our paths first crossed more than a decade ago.
It has taken me until this year to understand his patience.
In late January, the Oregon State women’s basketball team was 3-5 and had lost more games to COVID-19 than it had played. Having lost three top players from the previous season to graduation (Mikayla Pivec), transfer (Destiny Slocum) and injury (Kennedy Brown) and dealing with an almost entirely new lineup, it would have been easy for a coach to write this off as a building year and starting thinking about next season.
With Ron Callan and Jim Wilson, offering our favorite Beaver athletes ever…
Note to readers: Jim Wilson and Ron Callan will serve as occasional guest columnists on my website. The Oregon State broadcasters’ first offering is a list of each’s top five favorite Beaver athletes to watch through the years. That’s not necessarily the best players, but the ones they most enjoyed watching at their craft.