Love Kate Martin’s words to the current Iowa team

“Why not show up every single day and work your ass off and see what can happen?”

Go all in! Just love her and jeverything she says. “Why not go all in?” “Why not us?”

Believe!

She is going to be such a phenomenal coach one day.

If anyone knows about why not us, it is Kate. She wasn’t a big time recruit. She blew out her knee her first yr in college. Her second yr, she plays off the bench and sees under ten minutes a game. There is no NCAA tournament at all that yr. The next yr, when Iowa was struggling to balance dealing with a ball dominant guard who would eventually win cofreshmen of the year nationally, it was Kate who stood up and said, “Everyone says they want be Caitlin. I don’t know if I want to be. The crown she wears is heavy.”

Iowa’s women’s program had made 1 final four in its history. That was in 1993. By the time Kate graduated, she was a three time captain who was called the glue two teams that made an NCAA title game. Caitlin had lifted them up, but it was largely her best friend Kate who kept them together.

Even after that, it was unsure if she would get drafted much less make an actual team. She got to hear her name called and her abilities as a teammate helped her make the Aces.

So if I was in that circle and she said why not us, I think I might just believe.