I’m thinking about playing overseas this off-season so Frederick and Aishida are going to come with me if I decide to go. But we don’t know. I definitely want to try it out. It’s difficult for me to find a place to go overseas right now because they have to come with me – I’m just not willing to leave my family for that long – and I want to go somewhere where there is an English-speaking school for Aishida to go to. It’s not just what country will pay the most for me to play for them, but it’s those other things too. Frederick wants to get into strength training for athletes, so he’s been taking this summer to study for the certification test. He’s really looking forward to passing that test and possibly doing that over there, but if not, he has his teaching to fall back on.
Some people have already signed contracts for overseas, but with my situation being a little more unique it takes a little longer. And I just recently decided that I wanted to go so we’re just getting the process started so I really don’t know how long it will take to find a good place for me to go, hopefully not too long though, so we know what we’re doing. Hopefully in the next month or so we’ll know what’s happening.
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.
When I was going into my senior year of college, Frederick accepted a job to teach and coach in Georgia and then when I graduated, we relocated there. I have a sister and an aunt who live there, but other than that, we just kind of ended up there. We never really decided where we wanted to live, but we both like tropical weather. I’m from Miami and Frederick is from Bastrop, La., which is about 20 minutes outside of Monroe, La. It’s north Louisiana, almost in Arkansas. He’s a country boy, but it’s a beautiful area. We both like Miami and California-type weather; we’ve talked about relocating to a similar area in the future. Aishida will start kindergarten in August. She was in pre-K in Georgia and she liked that. She hasn’t done anything structural since we’ve been here in Sacramento but we do stuff with her at home, which she doesn’t like very much. But we do a lot of stuff at home.
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