hopes for medical redshirt
“I’d love to have another year where I can be healthy and give this program one canada goose outlet ontario last year nobody wants it to end this way,” Tinkle said Tuesday afternoon.
Suffering since November with a knee injury, Tinkle canada goose outlet london uk tried to play through the pain until it became too much to bear. Surgery in mid January finally took her out of the lineup, but not out of touch with her teammates.
At practice on Tuesday, she was cheap canada goose shagging balls and encouraging teammates as they prepared for Thursday’s West Coast Conference tournament game against canada goose black friday deals Santa Clara.
“She’s such a positive person,” GU assistant Craig Fortier said. “A lot of folks would have become very introverted woe is me but that’s not her personality.”
You wouldn’t know it by her everpresent smile, but the dark cloud of injury has followed Tinkle since the https://www.doloresnet.com first game of the season, an exhibition against Carroll College. She left the game after taking a hard fall, but didn’t think much of it until the next day.
The pain grew steadily worse, but Tinkle still managed to lead GU with 10.5 points a game. “I played as long as I could, but I saw the handwriting on the wall. With each game it was harder and harder to bounce back and give 100 canada goose jacket uk percent.”
That’s when the canada goose discount uk option of a medical hardship presented itself. Even as she played, “I kept that canada goose outlet in the background,” said Tinkle, who still hoped to recover in time.
Inevitably, hope gave way to surgery “I listened to my body and canada goose outlet niagara falls it wasn’t going to happen,” Tinkle canada goose factory outlet winnipeg said. But she was at practice the next day, cheering from the cheap canada goose jackets china sideline.
By all accounts, she turned a feeling of helpless into a helping hand for a young GU team.
“She’s really stretched herself as a leader that’s something that’s really going to benefit her in the future,” Fortier said.
It Tinkle has her way, she’ll be leading the Bulldogs onto the court for next year’s Senior Night wearing sneakers this time.
Eagles eyeing No. 1With two games left, Eastern Washington is alone in second place in canada goose outlet in montreal the Big Sky Conference, a game behind Montana State.
A little help would be nice “Definitely we want them (MSU) to lose,” said guard Tisha Phillips. “But we have to take care of these two games.”
If the Eagles (19 9 overall, 13 3 in the Big Sky) can win at Idaho State and Weber State, they’re guaranteed at least the No. 2 seed in next week’s conference tournament in Reno, Nevada.
But after unexpected mid season losses canada goose trillium parka uk to Portland State and Sacramento State, the Eagles are taking nothing for granted. “The Big Sky is a tough conference, and the travel is buy canada goose jacket the toughest there is,” said EWU coach Wendy canada goose outlet jackets Schuller, who led the Eagles to a 21 win season last year.
Eastern is coming off an 84 70 win over Idaho that all but guaranteed a top four finish and a first round bye in the Big Sky tournament.
More important, Schuller said, “I feel like cheap canada goose outlet we’re playing good basketball on both ends of the floor, we have good understanding of each other something we’ve been trying to do all year.”
Vandals in good shapeAfter a loss at EWU last weekend, Idaho (20 8 overall, 12 4 Big Sky) needs just one win or even none this week at Weber State and Idaho State to secure a top four finish.
That’s because the third place Vandals hold tie breaker advantages over North Dakota and Montana, who are one game canada goose outlet europe back in the standings and play each other this weekend.
Only one scenario keeps a 12 6 UI team out of the top four: canada goose outlet reviews sixth place Weber State (10 6 in the confernece) could overhaul the Vandals (via tiebreaker) with a pair of wins, while the Montana North Dakota winner also wins its final game.