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Fredrick has been everything for me to be able to get where I am. When I got pregnant, Frederick made it a point to make sure that I was just like every other athlete. I didn’t wash clothes, I didn’t wash dishes, I didn’t cook, I didn’t clean—he did it all! I tell everybody that I’m spoiled rotten, to this day; I don’t think I washed clothes for five years before I came to Sacramento! He did all that stuff because he really wanted to make sure I had a “normal” – so to speak – experience as a student-athlete. He was just really huge in my success, in being super dad, or, “Mr. Mom,” as my mom nicknamed him. He changed more diapers than I did, especially after I went back to playing basketball. Initially I did some of it, but he took the brunt of it—taking a little infant to games when I went back to playing, changing diapers in the middle of games, things like that. He’s a huge, huge part of why I am where I am today. After I had Aishida, Frederick is the one that worked me out, pushed me and never let me give up on getting back into shape. I was that player that was really used to being in super good shape, I never knew what it was like to be out of shape. I always went 1000 miles-per-hour so I never knew what it was like, but when I came back after I had her, it was a struggle! It was hard because I had never been in that place where I had to push through being tired. So he was my rock, he really was the reason that I’ve gotten to where I am today.

I played my freshman year which was 2001-2002, then found out I was pregnant that summer so I sat out what would have been my sophomore year, 2002-2003. Then I came back in 2003-2004 and played the three years I had left.