Chloe Seelhoff is a clear No. 2. But it’s not what you think
4/5/2024 4:33:00 PM | Soccer
There is this thing that Chloe Seelhoff does before games, something she started doing when she began her collegiate career at Washington as a freshman in the fall of 2022.
She'll go off by herself, if not in the literal sense, which can be tough to do in a locker room with more than two dozen energetic teammates, but at least in the figurative sense, cocooning herself off from the rest of the world as she prepares herself for what's to come, focusing on the one thing, the two things, the three things that are her own personal keys to the game.
She's not one to let the game come to her, to let it play out over time as she determines how and where she can best fit in, where she can most make an impact. No. Her goal: to impose what she wants to do upon the game, right from the start.
That's why she needs that time alone. While some players use interactions with their teammates to help release the pregame pressure and any angst they may be feeling, Seelhoff prefers to channel all of that inward, to bottle it up before releasing it on the field and upon the opponent.
Montana associate head coach J. Landham has seen it before. It's how Ashlyn Dvorak, who had a 0.47 goals-against average last season as a redshirt freshman, prepares herself. He's learned the best thing he can do is to give those players the space they want, the space they need. They are pots of water on the stove and they know how and when to start applying the heat to go from tepid to simmer to boiling.
It's their thing. It's their way. Best a coach keep their hands off, their voice quiet, let it happen. After all, the results speak for themselves.
"I get a certain energy on game day and like to do my own thing, to visualize," says Seelhoff, who transferred from Washington to Montana over the winter. The midfielder officially went from Husky to Grizzly in January when the spring semester started and she joined her new team.
"Ever since my first college game, I've gotten into that rhythm and it's only gotten stronger. I'm more focused on how I want to perform rather than adjusting as the game goes along. I want to be competitive from the get-go."
Her dad, Josh, who played baseball at Washington State, can only nod in understanding. He knows what that's all about. He's lived it.
"She can be very serious and stern, whether it's doing homework or in sports. She has that switch she can turn on and off. If it's a win, she's really friendly," he says. "If it's a loss, sometimes it took a while. Can we go talk to Chloe yet?
"That was true of all the girls. If it was a bad game, on the ride home you're thinking, oh, man, what's going to happen tonight? For the most part, it's been awesome. It's been a joy."
It's Josh's "all the girls" segue that begins to make clear how this all came to be, how Chloe followed Maddie by 14 months, then Ella arrived two years after that. Within that pressure to catch up to big sister and while keeping an eye on little sister, a gem of a competitor was created, an unstoppable force of nature.
"She's always been driven. I don't want to say she needs to be the best at everything, but she really prides herself on being good and following through," says Josh. "Whatever it was we were doing, Chloe always had that competitive grit. Being not only a second child but a middle child, she has learned to make the most of everything she does.
"Chloe was her high school class president, she was calculus student of the year her senior year. She's always been competitive, regardless of the setting. She's always getting after it."
It's nothing new, but it's a more recent phenomenon – relative to the history of humanity – as it applies to the world of sports. First-borns? They can have their birthright. The Chloe Seelhoffs of the world? The No. 2's? That's its own gift.
"You have to be unbelievably, ruthlessly, exceptionally driven," writes Annie Vernon about second children in her book Mind Games. She writes that first-born children are "self-referencing" as they make their own way, figuring things out without a peer as guide. The next child arrives and automatically has a target, someone to overtake.
"Studies suggest that first-born children are motivated to learn while younger siblings are motivated to win," Vernon writes. The Seelhoffs couldn't have planned it any better, not that sporting domination – Maddie will be a senior soccer player at Montana in the fall, Chloe a junior, while Ella will be a freshman at Eastern Washington, future heptathlete in the school's track and field program – was ever the goal.
"We never forced sports on them. We just said, do what you want to do, but whatever you do, commit to it and work hard," says Josh about the No. 1 family rule.
It was the timing of the girls' arrivals that led to this, a mere 14 months between Maddie and Chloe, just enough of an age gap that Chloe was playing up, as it were, no matter what the activity was and soon enough keeping up. Then when she began playing and competing with her age-group peers, it just wasn't a fair fight. The blessing of being No. 2.
"I can see that helping me," says Chloe. "We were so competitive from such a young age. I always wanted to be doing what Maddie was doing. I think that played a role in my confidence. As soon as I was able to hang with them, oh, I can beat this age group. Then when I got to my own age group, I felt super comfortable. I got some confidence from that."
There was a study done a decade ago, of all the athletes at different training camps vying for a spot on the U.S. national team. The results were not surprising but still staggering. Three-quarters of the players had an older sibling. Only 20 percent were the oldest child, only five percent were an only child.
The progression is real as a younger sibling: Challenge, fail, repeat. Toughen up. Challenge, fail, repeat. Figure it out. Challenge, fail, repeat. Try again. Challenge, win, repeat. Breakthrough. Challenge, win, repeat. A competitor is born. Challenge, dominate, repeat. All the way to elite status. It becomes ingrained.
Chloe figures she was about 8 when the wrote on a napkin at a restaurant that she one day wanted to play for the national team. Her mom kept it. Because you never know. "For a while, it was a dream," she says. "When I started talking to college coaches, okay, this is getting serious. It can get so real so quick."
When she played for Crossfire Premier ECNL, Montana's Chris Citowicki was one of those coaches often standing on the sideline, seeing Seelhoff perform, then visualizing her game and her skillset at South Campus Stadium and what that would do for the Grizzlies.
"She was such a good runner with the ball, dribbler with the ball. She could shoot from distance, could create things," says Citowicki, who saw in Seelhoff everything he wants out of a midfielder.
"I want midfielders who don't just get the ball and pass the ball. If you have somebody who can get it and dribble through two people, it destroys defensive shape. Now they have to start committing people out of different lines. Chloe can unlock shapes. She creates chaos. It's hard to find that. I love having someone who can destroy the game through the middle of the field."
Of course, he wasn't going to get her, not after Washington came calling. The girl from Snohomish never thought she'd stay local for college – big dogs need to stretch their legs, get out and roam, right? – but how could she say no to the Huskies, to the thought of playing in the Pac-12, in the nation's deepest league? UCLA and Stanford? They go from the television to the same field you're playing on.
Or sometimes playing on. From time to time playing on. Occasionally playing on. She appeared in four matches as a freshman in 2022, was on the field for 29 minutes on Washington's 10-win team that got bumped off the NCAA tournament bubble with losses to Stanford, UCLA and USC.
Without a conference tournament, the Pac-12 allowed no do-overs, no second chances.
Last fall as a sophomore, Seelhoff played in 13 of 19 matches, made four starts, scored in Washington's 3-1 win at Idaho, thought she was making her way up the ladder only to find out she'd been bumped down a few steps without necessarily knowing or being told forthrightly why. When she did get on the field, it was to play wide forward or wide midfield, neither position allowing her true talent to shine brightest.
Five months ago today, on a Sunday in Seattle, the Huskies were basking in the glow of the previous Friday's 2-0 triumph over Washington State in the regular-season finale. All Washington could do was take its nine wins and cross its collective fingers while it awaited the unveiling of the NCAA tournament field.
Passed over. Again. But Seelhoff had larger concerns. Was she going to get her chance at Washington, to play consistently in the position she wanted? Should she look at going somewhere else and starting over? It was a difficult November. Two seasons down, two to go. Her clock was ticking. There were only so many opportunities left to compete as a college athlete, the way she wanted to compete, before the clock would strike midnight. She had to get this right. And right now.
Josh had his own story from Washington State, of being on the team when a new coach came in, quickly learning that he wasn't going to be a big part of the program's future, how he quit playing baseball for the Cougars but remained in school until he graduated.
"She had some real hard decisions to make. I gave her my opinions," says Josh. "Her boyfriend is at U-Dub, she was in the engineering program and she really loved her team, but she felt she was being overlooked. It was her decision to leave Washington and enter the portal, and Amy and I support our girls' decisions."
What better way to relieve the stress, to clear her head, than to travel to Missoula, where Maddie would be celebrating her 21st birthday? Which happened to coincide with the opening of the NCAA transfer portal, where Citowicki saw the name Seelhoff and immediately reached out. Would she be available to visit over the phone? Chloe said, how about in person? I'm just down the street.
It happened quickly, not just because she was in town but because of the familiarity. She knew all about the program, from her sister, from other Griz players she knew from playing with and against growing up. Her high school coach even weighed in, told her Montana was the right system for her, the best option, given the way Citowicki's teams play, to utilize her skillset, for her game to blossom.
But Citowicki wasn't going to do anything until he brought Maddie into his office for a conversation. "You almost ask permission, so to speak, from the one who's in the program. Are you okay with your sister coming into this environment? Do you think you could work together? Then yeah, absolutely, let's make it work.
"By this time, by this age, they've matured out of whatever they were earlier in life and they just really appreciate being together. There was some significant competition as the (recruiting) process went along, but I think she had her heart set on this place. She already had some prior relationships with players on the team, so she's assimilated very quickly. It almost feels like she's been here a year already."
Someone asked Citowicki this week about his "drop-down" transfer from Washington, before they reconsidered that choice of words. After all, what exactly is the drop down?
Washington won at Idaho last year 3-1. Montana won at Idaho 2-0. The Huskies played to a 0-0 draw at Oregon State a few weeks after the Grizzlies played to a 0-0 draw at Oregon State.
Washington ended the season with an RPI of 82, helped by the fact that eight other Pac-12 teams ranked in the top 70. Montana ended the season with an RPI of 96, a number not helped by the fact that six of the Big Sky's nine teams had a year-end RPI of 275 or lower.
"After coming here and seeing the level of every single practice, it's as intense," Seelhoff said. "I was surprised at how high the level was. The level doesn't feel different. It's a great program."
And don't think she hasn't thought of the Big Sky tournament and the excitement and the opportunity that brings, something the Pac-12 didn't provide. When Citowicki's first team, in 2018, won the Big Sky tournament and advanced to the NCAAs, the Grizzlies did it as a No. 5 seed. Montana was the No. 2 seed in 2021 when the Grizzlies made their most recent NCAA tournament appearance.
There can be bumps along the way, in August, September, October, but there is always November, those brilliant fall days when a team gets another chance to make it right. It's when the Grizzlies have typically been at their best.
"It's almost like there is a second opportunity because of the tournament," she says. "In the Pac-12, you could have a great year but there were those three teams (Stanford, UCLA, USC) that beat us, so they got to go and we didn't.
"I've always wanted to go to the (NCAA) tournament. I think it's so cool. I haven't had the chance. We were close (at Washington). This fall is definitely our chance."
It's something to look forward to, the Big Sky tournament in Missoula in early November, for the first time since 2014, but she knows fall glory doesn't come without hard work in the spring when no one is watching.
But how could it feel like hard work when the Grizzlies were in Pullman last weekend for a spring exhibition match against Washington State, Seelhoff's first appearance in a Montana uniform, facing the team she last played, the Cougars in Seattle back in early November?
And not only that but playing where she's at her best, at her most comfortable, at her most dangerous, central midfielder and attacking midfielder?
"I'm back in the 8 and 10 position. I love to run, play offense, defense. That's kind of my thing," she says. "I had so much energy, both with a new team and knowing I can play with more freedom. I can play like myself. Then having my sister here and having a team that feels like family, it's really appealing."
It should come as no surprise that she got her hands on the match video a few days afterward and dissected her play, figured out where she could have been better, clipped four examples and sent them to Citowicki with her own self-evaluation, of how she would improve the next time out, on Saturday when Montana faces BYU and Idaho State in Pocatello.
Surprised that a player would do that on her own? Did we mention she has an internship set up with a big accounting firm in Seattle for the summer? The summer of 2025? "She's always looking forward, always planning," says Josh. "And she's always putting in the work."
If anything, she just needs to slow down at times, for her own good and the team's. Could she take the ball into that space? Sure, probably every time she got it. She's that fast and that skilled. But what if she stopped and distributed and found her own pocket, stayed patient, let (gasp!) the game come to her when every instinct she has is to bend the game to her own will?
"I was running everywhere (against Washington State)," she says. "I was so, play me the ball because I want to go, I want to go, I want to go. If I pull into pockets of space, I can get the ball and use my strengths of driving at people, dribbling, playing through balls. If you don't focus on scoring, it often happens when you're more calm and not focused only on that.
"This weekend my goal is to get the ball from my center backs and create play rather than try to be the end of every single play."
Wait, so she has all the characteristics of a driven No. 2 child, and now she's adding in the learning component from a No. 1? Okay, this could be fun.
"Her IQ is unbelievable," says Citowicki. "She broke down everything that needed to be fixed from the Washington State game as a self-evaluation. Super smart, very coachable. You ask her to do something and she applies it and understands it, not just because I'm telling her to do something. Love working with her. What a fun addition."
One team's loss is another's gain. "I'm just chasing the dream in a different way is what I like to say."
She'll go off by herself, if not in the literal sense, which can be tough to do in a locker room with more than two dozen energetic teammates, but at least in the figurative sense, cocooning herself off from the rest of the world as she prepares herself for what's to come, focusing on the one thing, the two things, the three things that are her own personal keys to the game.
She's not one to let the game come to her, to let it play out over time as she determines how and where she can best fit in, where she can most make an impact. No. Her goal: to impose what she wants to do upon the game, right from the start.
That's why she needs that time alone. While some players use interactions with their teammates to help release the pregame pressure and any angst they may be feeling, Seelhoff prefers to channel all of that inward, to bottle it up before releasing it on the field and upon the opponent.
Montana associate head coach J. Landham has seen it before. It's how Ashlyn Dvorak, who had a 0.47 goals-against average last season as a redshirt freshman, prepares herself. He's learned the best thing he can do is to give those players the space they want, the space they need. They are pots of water on the stove and they know how and when to start applying the heat to go from tepid to simmer to boiling.
It's their thing. It's their way. Best a coach keep their hands off, their voice quiet, let it happen. After all, the results speak for themselves.
"I get a certain energy on game day and like to do my own thing, to visualize," says Seelhoff, who transferred from Washington to Montana over the winter. The midfielder officially went from Husky to Grizzly in January when the spring semester started and she joined her new team.
"Ever since my first college game, I've gotten into that rhythm and it's only gotten stronger. I'm more focused on how I want to perform rather than adjusting as the game goes along. I want to be competitive from the get-go."
Her dad, Josh, who played baseball at Washington State, can only nod in understanding. He knows what that's all about. He's lived it.
"She can be very serious and stern, whether it's doing homework or in sports. She has that switch she can turn on and off. If it's a win, she's really friendly," he says. "If it's a loss, sometimes it took a while. Can we go talk to Chloe yet?
"That was true of all the girls. If it was a bad game, on the ride home you're thinking, oh, man, what's going to happen tonight? For the most part, it's been awesome. It's been a joy."
It's Josh's "all the girls" segue that begins to make clear how this all came to be, how Chloe followed Maddie by 14 months, then Ella arrived two years after that. Within that pressure to catch up to big sister and while keeping an eye on little sister, a gem of a competitor was created, an unstoppable force of nature.
"She's always been driven. I don't want to say she needs to be the best at everything, but she really prides herself on being good and following through," says Josh. "Whatever it was we were doing, Chloe always had that competitive grit. Being not only a second child but a middle child, she has learned to make the most of everything she does.
"Chloe was her high school class president, she was calculus student of the year her senior year. She's always been competitive, regardless of the setting. She's always getting after it."
It's nothing new, but it's a more recent phenomenon – relative to the history of humanity – as it applies to the world of sports. First-borns? They can have their birthright. The Chloe Seelhoffs of the world? The No. 2's? That's its own gift.
"You have to be unbelievably, ruthlessly, exceptionally driven," writes Annie Vernon about second children in her book Mind Games. She writes that first-born children are "self-referencing" as they make their own way, figuring things out without a peer as guide. The next child arrives and automatically has a target, someone to overtake.
"Studies suggest that first-born children are motivated to learn while younger siblings are motivated to win," Vernon writes. The Seelhoffs couldn't have planned it any better, not that sporting domination – Maddie will be a senior soccer player at Montana in the fall, Chloe a junior, while Ella will be a freshman at Eastern Washington, future heptathlete in the school's track and field program – was ever the goal.
"We never forced sports on them. We just said, do what you want to do, but whatever you do, commit to it and work hard," says Josh about the No. 1 family rule.
It was the timing of the girls' arrivals that led to this, a mere 14 months between Maddie and Chloe, just enough of an age gap that Chloe was playing up, as it were, no matter what the activity was and soon enough keeping up. Then when she began playing and competing with her age-group peers, it just wasn't a fair fight. The blessing of being No. 2.
"I can see that helping me," says Chloe. "We were so competitive from such a young age. I always wanted to be doing what Maddie was doing. I think that played a role in my confidence. As soon as I was able to hang with them, oh, I can beat this age group. Then when I got to my own age group, I felt super comfortable. I got some confidence from that."
There was a study done a decade ago, of all the athletes at different training camps vying for a spot on the U.S. national team. The results were not surprising but still staggering. Three-quarters of the players had an older sibling. Only 20 percent were the oldest child, only five percent were an only child.
The progression is real as a younger sibling: Challenge, fail, repeat. Toughen up. Challenge, fail, repeat. Figure it out. Challenge, fail, repeat. Try again. Challenge, win, repeat. Breakthrough. Challenge, win, repeat. A competitor is born. Challenge, dominate, repeat. All the way to elite status. It becomes ingrained.
Chloe figures she was about 8 when the wrote on a napkin at a restaurant that she one day wanted to play for the national team. Her mom kept it. Because you never know. "For a while, it was a dream," she says. "When I started talking to college coaches, okay, this is getting serious. It can get so real so quick."
When she played for Crossfire Premier ECNL, Montana's Chris Citowicki was one of those coaches often standing on the sideline, seeing Seelhoff perform, then visualizing her game and her skillset at South Campus Stadium and what that would do for the Grizzlies.
"She was such a good runner with the ball, dribbler with the ball. She could shoot from distance, could create things," says Citowicki, who saw in Seelhoff everything he wants out of a midfielder.
"I want midfielders who don't just get the ball and pass the ball. If you have somebody who can get it and dribble through two people, it destroys defensive shape. Now they have to start committing people out of different lines. Chloe can unlock shapes. She creates chaos. It's hard to find that. I love having someone who can destroy the game through the middle of the field."
Of course, he wasn't going to get her, not after Washington came calling. The girl from Snohomish never thought she'd stay local for college – big dogs need to stretch their legs, get out and roam, right? – but how could she say no to the Huskies, to the thought of playing in the Pac-12, in the nation's deepest league? UCLA and Stanford? They go from the television to the same field you're playing on.
Or sometimes playing on. From time to time playing on. Occasionally playing on. She appeared in four matches as a freshman in 2022, was on the field for 29 minutes on Washington's 10-win team that got bumped off the NCAA tournament bubble with losses to Stanford, UCLA and USC.
Without a conference tournament, the Pac-12 allowed no do-overs, no second chances.
Last fall as a sophomore, Seelhoff played in 13 of 19 matches, made four starts, scored in Washington's 3-1 win at Idaho, thought she was making her way up the ladder only to find out she'd been bumped down a few steps without necessarily knowing or being told forthrightly why. When she did get on the field, it was to play wide forward or wide midfield, neither position allowing her true talent to shine brightest.
Five months ago today, on a Sunday in Seattle, the Huskies were basking in the glow of the previous Friday's 2-0 triumph over Washington State in the regular-season finale. All Washington could do was take its nine wins and cross its collective fingers while it awaited the unveiling of the NCAA tournament field.
Passed over. Again. But Seelhoff had larger concerns. Was she going to get her chance at Washington, to play consistently in the position she wanted? Should she look at going somewhere else and starting over? It was a difficult November. Two seasons down, two to go. Her clock was ticking. There were only so many opportunities left to compete as a college athlete, the way she wanted to compete, before the clock would strike midnight. She had to get this right. And right now.
Josh had his own story from Washington State, of being on the team when a new coach came in, quickly learning that he wasn't going to be a big part of the program's future, how he quit playing baseball for the Cougars but remained in school until he graduated.
"She had some real hard decisions to make. I gave her my opinions," says Josh. "Her boyfriend is at U-Dub, she was in the engineering program and she really loved her team, but she felt she was being overlooked. It was her decision to leave Washington and enter the portal, and Amy and I support our girls' decisions."
What better way to relieve the stress, to clear her head, than to travel to Missoula, where Maddie would be celebrating her 21st birthday? Which happened to coincide with the opening of the NCAA transfer portal, where Citowicki saw the name Seelhoff and immediately reached out. Would she be available to visit over the phone? Chloe said, how about in person? I'm just down the street.
It happened quickly, not just because she was in town but because of the familiarity. She knew all about the program, from her sister, from other Griz players she knew from playing with and against growing up. Her high school coach even weighed in, told her Montana was the right system for her, the best option, given the way Citowicki's teams play, to utilize her skillset, for her game to blossom.
But Citowicki wasn't going to do anything until he brought Maddie into his office for a conversation. "You almost ask permission, so to speak, from the one who's in the program. Are you okay with your sister coming into this environment? Do you think you could work together? Then yeah, absolutely, let's make it work.
"By this time, by this age, they've matured out of whatever they were earlier in life and they just really appreciate being together. There was some significant competition as the (recruiting) process went along, but I think she had her heart set on this place. She already had some prior relationships with players on the team, so she's assimilated very quickly. It almost feels like she's been here a year already."
Someone asked Citowicki this week about his "drop-down" transfer from Washington, before they reconsidered that choice of words. After all, what exactly is the drop down?
Washington won at Idaho last year 3-1. Montana won at Idaho 2-0. The Huskies played to a 0-0 draw at Oregon State a few weeks after the Grizzlies played to a 0-0 draw at Oregon State.
Washington ended the season with an RPI of 82, helped by the fact that eight other Pac-12 teams ranked in the top 70. Montana ended the season with an RPI of 96, a number not helped by the fact that six of the Big Sky's nine teams had a year-end RPI of 275 or lower.
"After coming here and seeing the level of every single practice, it's as intense," Seelhoff said. "I was surprised at how high the level was. The level doesn't feel different. It's a great program."
And don't think she hasn't thought of the Big Sky tournament and the excitement and the opportunity that brings, something the Pac-12 didn't provide. When Citowicki's first team, in 2018, won the Big Sky tournament and advanced to the NCAAs, the Grizzlies did it as a No. 5 seed. Montana was the No. 2 seed in 2021 when the Grizzlies made their most recent NCAA tournament appearance.
There can be bumps along the way, in August, September, October, but there is always November, those brilliant fall days when a team gets another chance to make it right. It's when the Grizzlies have typically been at their best.
"It's almost like there is a second opportunity because of the tournament," she says. "In the Pac-12, you could have a great year but there were those three teams (Stanford, UCLA, USC) that beat us, so they got to go and we didn't.
"I've always wanted to go to the (NCAA) tournament. I think it's so cool. I haven't had the chance. We were close (at Washington). This fall is definitely our chance."
It's something to look forward to, the Big Sky tournament in Missoula in early November, for the first time since 2014, but she knows fall glory doesn't come without hard work in the spring when no one is watching.
But how could it feel like hard work when the Grizzlies were in Pullman last weekend for a spring exhibition match against Washington State, Seelhoff's first appearance in a Montana uniform, facing the team she last played, the Cougars in Seattle back in early November?
And not only that but playing where she's at her best, at her most comfortable, at her most dangerous, central midfielder and attacking midfielder?
"I'm back in the 8 and 10 position. I love to run, play offense, defense. That's kind of my thing," she says. "I had so much energy, both with a new team and knowing I can play with more freedom. I can play like myself. Then having my sister here and having a team that feels like family, it's really appealing."
It should come as no surprise that she got her hands on the match video a few days afterward and dissected her play, figured out where she could have been better, clipped four examples and sent them to Citowicki with her own self-evaluation, of how she would improve the next time out, on Saturday when Montana faces BYU and Idaho State in Pocatello.
Surprised that a player would do that on her own? Did we mention she has an internship set up with a big accounting firm in Seattle for the summer? The summer of 2025? "She's always looking forward, always planning," says Josh. "And she's always putting in the work."
If anything, she just needs to slow down at times, for her own good and the team's. Could she take the ball into that space? Sure, probably every time she got it. She's that fast and that skilled. But what if she stopped and distributed and found her own pocket, stayed patient, let (gasp!) the game come to her when every instinct she has is to bend the game to her own will?
"I was running everywhere (against Washington State)," she says. "I was so, play me the ball because I want to go, I want to go, I want to go. If I pull into pockets of space, I can get the ball and use my strengths of driving at people, dribbling, playing through balls. If you don't focus on scoring, it often happens when you're more calm and not focused only on that.
"This weekend my goal is to get the ball from my center backs and create play rather than try to be the end of every single play."
Wait, so she has all the characteristics of a driven No. 2 child, and now she's adding in the learning component from a No. 1? Okay, this could be fun.
"Her IQ is unbelievable," says Citowicki. "She broke down everything that needed to be fixed from the Washington State game as a self-evaluation. Super smart, very coachable. You ask her to do something and she applies it and understands it, not just because I'm telling her to do something. Love working with her. What a fun addition."
One team's loss is another's gain. "I'm just chasing the dream in a different way is what I like to say."
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