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SPORTS 4 PLAYER PROFILES: BBALL EMTÜH , ' F * * £ 1 ’ TCP: Who are your top three favorite artist!? y / U > ,? TCP: What are some things you worked during the offseason? Paige Downer (#3): Mac MWer, D aB ab J and Ella Kat H ilto n\# n): Ca^We just have t h e l same o n e s ? T |p ^ ^ w e ’re roommatls H so we kind of listen to a lot of the sa m i music. K ’wan Carter (#30): Roddy Ricch, R q Wave and Lil Wayne. Rob Ford (#20): Lil Wayne, don’t know, throw in Drake. x Kat Hilton; Coach [Kurt Guelsdorf] personally wrote Sut what he wanted each of us to WOrk cm. So,j»fer the summer, wnWeVSbl could get in the gym I’d just go shoot around you know. k. ...iffge downer: For me, I would say it’s .p ro b ab ly more mental. I wanted to work KT on my mentality because I get mad at ^ynyself easily you know? I know I can do better and I push myself kind of hard, so I ‘wanted to be a better leader and I kind of E wante<ftojust be positive for the team. ■ K ’wan Cartejjflfteally it was just more conditioning bejfogse I do run track. It’s f e . - ™ n n i n g 4 e a l l y . Conditioning- ^W tse^dst getting my lungs together was ■ BSPT most of it. Rob Ford: Just in the gym, putting up shots, you know, getting the core right. And then we’d gotten here a little early witl^pur team, got practices going and got people building chemistry. TCP: W hat’ s your favorite Paige Downer: Either the both Oregon and Oregon State’s basketball teams are really good Kat Hilton: The Cougars. K ’wan Carter: NFL-wise I like the Saints. Basketball? LA show, you know? It’s Lakeshow, West Coast best coast. Come on now. Rob Ford: I only really watch the playoffs so I don’t really keep close with a team. I’m from Portland, so I mean, I like the Blazers. TCP: What are your plans after CCC? TCP: Do you have any players that you model your game after? a four year, continue my education an* hopefully go somewhere to play softball Paige Downer: After this, I’m probabl' going to be hanging up the shoes. I’n going to focus on my major, (accounting and decide where to go, so, kind of jus focus on that. Figure out what I want t< r do in toe future and stuff, it’s definitely gonna be hard not playing basketball, bu T think it’s time to just focus on that K ’wan Carter: I’m plarining on going tc the next level at a four year Rob Ford: Right now I’m just playing sggggaK' basketball and having fun, bul M S B ^ id in g offers from Pacific University R » ^ P S U , Concordia, Western Oregon, CaL State Dominguez. Right now I’m just playing. Paige Downer: I’d say either Damian Lillard or Steph Curry. Kat Hilton: For me, softball is my main sport. So for softball I’d say Sis Bates from University o f Washington. K ’wan Carter: I try to model it as a Patrick Beverly. Just an all-out-dog on defense. Rob Ford: Allen Iverson. TCP: W hat is it about your team ’ s m entality that allows you to stay in games and stay com petitive? Paige Downer: I mean, I don’t think anyone likes losing. We’re all here for a reason. We’re not going to show up and be like, "O h, you know, let’s play, let’s have fu n .” We want to win. We know we’re good and we love playing together. Kat Hilton: I think a lot of it is that Kurt [Guelsdorf] and Jim [Martineau] really hold us accountable. Not only are they coaching us, but they remind us why we want to play and why we’re here. Interviews by Nick Schwada Photo illustration by Jonathan Villagomez Clackamas Print theclackamasprint.com ------------------ ------------ January 29,2020
