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Message: [QUOTE="HoopsGuy09, post: 5025184, member: 13046"] I would like to say that my most memorable experience in life is having earned my doctorate from Northeastern University. However, I think my most significant moment of personal gratitude would be keeping my feet moving in my formative years. My parents were divorced when I was four due to domestic abuse; was raised lower middle class in each home. When I was nine years old, my mother was in a tragic car accident that left her with a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), nonambulatory, and without the use of one of her arms and one of her legs. At that point, my older sister and I were forced to move in with our father who we had not seen in years due to divorce, and because my mother was fighting the legal battle for full custody at the time of the accident. In the moments that I allow myself to feel pride in who I am, having achieved my doctorate, spent 10 years as a public school educator, and with the plan to marry my partner in Newport, RI, next spring, I feel proud of what I have accomplished. [B]I would like to pose an additional question for others to consider. What is your first AND favorite memory of UConn Women's Basketball? [/B] My first, and likely why I was hooked, is the memory of Tarausi's half-court basket against Tennessee in January of 2003. It was the first basketball game I can remember watching on TV. I remember running upstairs to tell my sister, "YOU HAVE GOT TO COME SEE THIS SHOT!" As a competitive athlete myself, I very much also remember being so fond of the way DT carried herself -- the confidence, the swagger; I wanted to carry myself like her on the field and court. My favorite memory is a close competition between these two: the game where KML came back from that awful elbow injury (with the hefty brace on) and hit a collection of 3s early on (I think it was against Duke?) [B]OR[/B] the 1v2 game where South Carolina was just getting onto the scene and there was the snowy February game at Gampel. Watching Moriah Jefferson cross up Tiffany Mitchell and go in for the lay-up or Stewie dominate Wilson had me sitting on my living room floor, pompously yelling, "Okay, SC, you're good. But you still aren't UConn." [B]Fun Fact:[/B] I graduated from the same high school that Carla Berube attended. [/QUOTE]

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