One day at a time

It was weird being away from my family for Thanksgiving this year, but I guess it is just one of those sacrifices a college athlete has to make. Our breaks are considerably shorter than that of other students, but it is worth it because we are doing something that we all love.

 With break now behind us the team has a lot of goals heading into conference play. Pre-season did not go as exactly as we had hoped it would, but it showed us just how much we need to step it up for conference play. After our Mount Ida game Coach told us to really focus on what we, as individuals, can improve in order to help the team as a whole. As a freshman in a new system, a lot of different things come to my mind. But the first thing that stands out to me, is putting more focus on the task at hand and take things step by step. A lot of the time I’m so concerned about what I should be doing next that not all of my attention is given to what I am doing at that moment. If I can change this then I believe it will help bring a higher intensity level to the court because all of my energy will be focused on that one moment.

This same idea applies to school too. With finals only two shorts weeks away, my workload has really increased. Sometimes when I think about the sheer amount of work that has to be done, it seems like too much. Breaking down what I have to do day by day will help to get all of that work done without feeling too overwhelmed.

Coast Guard is coming up on Wednesday. They are a team on a roll right now so it will be a good, competitive game to start conference play.

Tip Off

There was a great turn out for our Wheaton College Tip off this weekend. Thank you to all of the fans who came out on Saturday to help support the DJ Dream Fund. I feel like the team really fed off the energy and we were able to come out with a great intensity against Lasell. It felt good to get the first win of the season. Sunday’s game did not turn out as we hoped, but it really highlighted what we need to work on both individually and as a team.  From here it’s all about making the changes that we know that we are capable of making. Coach sent out a great quote after the game that I really believe captures our loss to Haverford today,

“Success comes from good decisions. Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes bad decisions.” –Alan Stein.

 We didn’t play our best today, but we can learn from the mistakes we made and be better for it in the future.

#Go Lyons

First game of the season

The first game of the season is coming up this Tuesday. The scrimmages against Worcester State and CCRI showed me a glimpse of what college games are like, but I think Tuesday’s game will be on a new level both competitively and mentally. Back home I had a routine for each game day. I followed it religiously and, in turn, I always went into the game feeling a sense of ease. Now I am 2000 miles from my parents, my home, my high school, and all of the different pieces of my old routine. I don’t have these same comforts here at Wheaton. I have to develop a new routine around college life. I’m not quite sure what that routine will be, but it will all start on Tuesday.

Tomorrow will be a day for getting a jumpstart on this week’s classwork and mentally preparing for Roger Williams. Oh, and also laundry... I have no more clean clothes.

Just a short introduction

Welcome to the life of a female student-athlete. My name is Kenzie Kuhn.  My love for basketball and intense focus on academics led me to the, small, Division III school of Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. My life at Wheaton is a balancing act between school, basketball, friends, and finding time to bring my laundry down (and then back up) four flights of stairs. Through this weekly blog you will get a small glimpse into my attempts to tackle each of these, and the many other, aspects of college life.

First up, the ever challenging task of finding a table at the library. In order to write this first post I went to my favorite place to get work done, the library. The library is usually my favorite place to get work done, unless its a Sunday night. On Sunday night, it seems, every Wheaton student is at the library. This makes it an extremely difficult task to find a table. The balcony tables over looking the main lobby go first, then the tables on the periodical level, all the way down to the stacks in the basement. If you are lucky you can get desk by the stairs, but if you are me, you end up in the depths of stacks hidden at a single desk behind Ancient Western Poetry. Not the most social of areas, but it does allow for much needed work to be done. I was able to finish my paper for Writing 101 and my study guide for Chemistry without distractions. I guess, in the end, the depths of stacks was just doing me a favor before  I got to the busy week ahead. This is the last week left before our first official game. Scrimmage versus CCRI on Tuesday...