Tuesday March 26, 2019 by Daily Titan

Tuesday March 26, 2019

Volume 105 Issue 30

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Women running for president CSUF discusses 2020 elections

Professor and students look at the possibility of the first female POTUS. KAITLIN MARTINEZ News Editor

HOSAM ELATTAR Asst. News Editor

A record number of female candidates announced that they would be running for the 2020 presidential election, nearly 100 years after women were given the right to vote in the U.S. The historic number of female presidential candidates follows the 2018

midterm elections that saw a record number of female representation in both chambers of Congress: 24 women elected to the U.S. Senate, and 102 women elected to the House of Representatives. “A good thing that I think came out of Hillary (Clinton) losing the presidency is a lot more women got involved in politics and the more women got involved. The more we’re changing what it means to be a woman candidate, the more we’re changing what it means to be a leader,” said Natalie Fousekis, director of the Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral and Public History.

The female candidates running for the 2020 presidential election are Senators Kamala Harris, D-CA, Amy Klobuchar, D-MN, Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, and Representative Tulsi Gabbard, D-Honolulu. Aside from elected officials, Marianne Williamson, an award winning author and spiritual leader, is running in the Democratic party. Fousekis said that the candidates, though all Democrats so far, are not only many, but varied. Unlike the 2016 election, where Clinton was the only Democratic female option, moderate to progressive women voters can choose

a candidate that is female and that more closely aligns with their political views. “To somebody who lives in California, someone very surrounded in diversity, I think Kamala Harris has a lot of appeal. I think if you’re somebody who is more of a moderate, I think an Amy Klobuchar or a Kirsten Gillibrand might have appeal. If you’re a progressive and you’re not so taken by Bernie Sanders, then I think Elizabeth Warren is somebody you’re interested in,” Fousekis said. SEE EMPOWER

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Barking and bashing with KROQ Softball to visit No. 1 Bruins

Third annual Barks of Love event fosters awareness on dog rescue and adoption. YVONNE VILLASENOR Staff Writer

Humans and canines soaked up the sunshine at the third annual Bark Bash held at the Heritage Museum on Sunday. The event focused on raising funds and promoting awareness for Barks of Love, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Orange County. Barks of Love is an all-breed rescue that is 100 percent nokill and foster based, ensuring that dogs find a suitable home. The organization started in 2008 and prioritizes the welfare of dogs its mission statement says it aims to decrease the total number of animals subject to euthanization each year, provide a safe home for animals that have been neglected and offer community education and awareness, according to the Barks of Love website. “All the money goes back to our nonprofit. We put it towards medical care for our rescue dogs, we put it towards buying supplies for our foster dogs. We really try to have the money from this go right back to the dogs and not really go to administrative costs,” said Paige Lefever, president of Barks of Love. The event offered activities for both pets and their owners. Admission included entrance into the museum’s historic Kellogg House, guided nature walks, a kids yoga session and a multitude of music, vendors and food trucks to enjoy. Radio station KROQ-FM helped promote the event through its “KROQ to the Rescue” program with on-air personality host Kat Corbett. Its purpose was to highlight different animal rescues

Cal State Fullerton will end its non-conference schedule against UCLA. JORDAN MENDOZA Sports Editor

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Chris Shu’s adventure dog duo Miko the Shibe and Aya the Shikoku take part in the event.

throughout Orange County in hopes of finding a home for animals. Pets could be found in strollers, on leashes or in the arms of their owners. Sari Shevitz was an attendee and took a tour of the Kellogg House while carrying her dog, Mocha. “I like doing things with my dog, outdoors especially. And

it’s a really great event, I’ve had a lot of fun, there’s a lot of good vendors and the cause is great,” Shevitz said. Pet-oriented companies offered nail trimming, temporary fur dyeing, dog massages and other services. Vendors also sold items including pet food, clothes and dog toys. Jennifer Savino, owner of

Jen’s Gems 4 Furry Friends, initially made gemstone jewelry for people until three months ago. Savino started her line after she accompanied her friend to euthanize her dog, Angel. Savino, who has experience in holistic healing in pets, performed a ceremony while they said their goodbyes. SEE PAWS

The Cal State Fullerton softball team will end their non-conference schedule with their biggest test this season, as they will visit No. 1 UCLA tonight. The top-ranked Bruins come into the match-up at 28-1, with their two most recent wins against Big West opponent’s Cal State Northridge and UC Santa Barbara. UCLA’s only loss this season was from No. 25 Michigan in the Judi Garman Classic earlier this month. UCLA is led by pitcher and first baseman Rachel Garcia, who is 13-0 for the season and pitched seven complete games, four of them being shutouts. The right-hander has dominated in the circle for the Bruins, as her 0.50 ERA and the team’s 1.17 both rank second in the country. The Bruins make use of every opportunity to get on base and score, as their .353 batting average ties for sixth in the country, and scored a run in every game this year. CSUF go into Westwood with a 20-12 record after winning the final game of a threegame series against Loyola Marymount, but dropping the first two games. SEE TOP 6 VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM

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Students awarded for research presentations Three groups win for their research in psychology and different sciences. KAITLIN MARTINEZ News Editor

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Three groups of students received accolades for their works at the seventh annual Student Creative Activities and Research awards ceremony on Wednesday. Aylin Gann, Shelby Abrahamian and Rebeca Gomez, won for their presentation of “Creating Leaders in the Classroom: Characteristics of Empathy and Self-Confidence.” Gann, a graduate psychology student, said they administered a survey to 12th grade students, looking for variables to predict if students would be successful when applying to and attending college. The variables they chose to survey students about were empathy and social awareness. “While we were looking at these variables, we were wondering if these were predicting other variables of leadership ability and self-confidence. Not only in learning with their peers, but also self-confidence in general socially,” Gann said. Nathalie Carrick, faculty fellow for the ceremony, said that their presentation, along with the two others that won Outstanding Poster and Exhibit were both chosen for visual presentation of content and the level of engagement in their presentation. “You know, it’s a combination of the presentation style of the student, so how they

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Student Creative Activities and Research award winners display their certificates.

explain the poster, the layout and design of the poster, (and) the novel aspect of their presentation,” Carrick said. One kind of presentation novelty is using 3D demonstrations to engage the audience with the researchers’ topics. Terri Patchen, a faculty fellow for the ceremony, said that this year’s awards hosted the most 3D demonstrations. A piranha bite simulator was created by Andrew Lowe, a biology graduate student, to test the durability of armored fish scales to potentially create more durable products,

such as gardening gloves or cut-resistant kitchen gloves. ‘We’re going to try to take those lessons that we learn from the fish and then apply them to human wearable armors,” Lowe said. For some of the participants, this was not their first conference presentation. Ariana Sanchez, a biology major with an ecology and evolutionary biology concentration, presented at two conferences before participating in SCAR. Sanchez’s project took place in the Mojave

Desert, where she and her research team looked at three ecosystems to determine the damage of a fire 13 years ago. Their main objective was to see any similarities or differences occurring in the ecosystems since. Sanchez has been able to showcase this project at the Southern California Botanists Symposium, where she won the award for best poster. “It was really validating to be able to like take part in a conference that is very like I mentioned; it’s really narrow, focused studies that go in depth,” Sanchez said.

Empower: Record number of female candidates CONTINUED FROM 1 Breanna Arroyo, a junior psychology major, said she is rooting for Kamala Harris in the 2020 election. “Strong women and men just don’t think we can do much, but we can, and I think definitely she has a shot of winning this presidency because she’s determined (and) hard working,” Arroyo said. Brooke Paz, president of CSUF Republicans, said the presidency should be determined by policy and not gender or race. “What we really need to be

looking at are people’s policies, their viewpoints, their history, their voting records, if they have been a politician before; things like that. I think that’s what really matters,” Paz said. Other students said a female president will bring a new perspective to the White House. “The way (women) just think and decide things is different. The things we care about. I think it is important because, also, the population in general isn’t just male, so to have someone who understands the other perspective is good,” said Sasha Ramirez, a business major.

Jesse Sun, a music education major, said that America is still a male- dominant society but is slowly progressing. “It’s still pretty male dominant here, especially in America. I think it’s hard to overcome that obstacle when it’s been a thing for so long,” Sun said. “Gradually it has changed a little bit to make it more equal for each gender, which I think is really good. We’re still working on it.” At Cal State Fullerton, Associated Students currently has an all-female executive team. Saba Ansari, ASI vice

president, said it’s important to have female representation in leadership roles. “I think historically we haven’t been given the opportunity to lead. It’s necessary to have all viewpoints and for us to advocate for women in general,” Ansari said. Canada and countries in Asia, South America, Europe, Oceania and Africa have all had female heads of states at some point since the 1960s, according to CNN. “I think we have a very male version of what it means to be in charge and a leader, and we

compare our women against men, and we shouldn’t be doing that,” Fousekis said. Fousekis said she is waiting to make definitive predictions about whether a female will be the next president, and how she would provide a different image of leadership. “We’ve never had a female president, so we don’t even know what that looks like. I think having a woman leader at that level will say to every young woman in this country, ‘(You) could be the most powerful person in the world,’” Fousekis said.

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TUESDAY MARCH 26, 2019

Legalizing prostitution may combat abuse Current laws prevent prostitutes from reporting assault.

ANGELINA DEQUINA Asst. Opinion Editor

In the United States, the potential to mitigate domestic violence and stigmatizations against prostitution is blockaded by its illegal status nationwide, excluding some parts of Nevada. Legalizing prostitution nationwide is the first step in preventing these atrocities from festering. Prostitution is considered to be one of the world’s oldest professions. A form of prostitution, labeled as sacred prostitution, was practiced from 4500 B.C. to 2004 B.C. in the Sumerian civilization. Of the nearly 14 million modern day prostitutes that live in the world today, 1 million are located in the U.S. The estimated amount of money spent in the U.S.’s industry is about $14.6 million, according to Havocscope Global Black Market Information. Currently, prostitution in the U.S. is only legal in certain counties of Nevada if a county’s population is under 400,000. Those who want to engage in prostitution are only legally permitted to do so in a licensed brothel. This extremely limited legalization of prostitution in Nevada doesn’t nullify the negative connotation that surrounds prostitutes in the U.S.,

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especially compared to porn stars. The only distinguishment between pornography and prostitution is that pornography is done on-camera — yet porn stars are not nearly as taboo as prostitutes. Prostitutes in Nevada are required by law to get regularly tested for sexually transmitted diseases and to use condoms, but their employers are not required to supply them with the health insurance or i n fo r m a t i o n they need for those resources. One group called Hookers for Health Care, rallied against President Trump when he tried to abolish the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2017, citing that many of them supported their families with sex work. Even though sex work’ has limited legality, it seems that it is not taken seriously as a profession. Though Nevada legislators seem to push progressive referendum, its half-hearted legalization of prostitution has not equated to the normalization of prostitutes in the U.S. Also, there is an absence of regulation in the legal sex industry in Nevada because the state has failed to put humane laws in place to protect prostitutes. Making prostitution

legal nationwide may not completely eradicate domestic violence, but it can help quell some of the abuse by providing prostitutes with the legal right to call the police when

they are assaulted. The laws the United States needs to adopt for prostitution can be viewed in the sex worker policy of the Netherlands. The country leads by example

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through having legal sex work nationwide and available resources for prostitutes who may be experiencing abuse. Femke Halsema, Amsterdam’s mayor, has been in the news for her efforts to keep sex workers safe. Halsema is in the process of working with sex workers, sex business owners, health care organizations, researchers, the Public Prosecution Service and the police to create safer working conditions for sex workers, according to The Lily. Another country that is changing perceptions of sex work is Australia. In Australia, an organization called Touching Base offers to connect sex workers with people who have disabilities so that they may experience sex if they are under the circumstance that they may never have the chance to. Organizations like this show the potential of legal prostitution to change the dynamic of how people think of prostitutes. There is mutual respect given to prostitutes, their profession and the act of sex itself. U.S. legislators need to look at the examples that Australia and the Netherlands are setting by legalizing sex work across the nation to address prominent and undervalued issues that prostitutes face, instead of accepting Nevada’s insufficient standard.

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TUESDAY MARCH 26, 2019

Songs and snacks at the Titan Night Market The Asian Pacific American Resource Center hosted a night of fun and games. BAYLEE MAUST Staff Writer

Rain or shine, the Asian Pacific American Resource Center’s Titan Night Market continued on for its fourth year in a row on Thursday. The annual event at the Engineering and Computer Science lawn featured fusion food trucks, game booths and musical performances.. Inderpal Dhindsa, student leader for the Asian Pacific American Resource Center, said he hoped Titans would get a chance to engage with student organizations through the 10 different tabling activities and to try some cultural food. “I hope that students get to take away all the exposure of the different communities that are part of the resource center that are also part of Asia. A lot of times people just say Asia and they think of community as one identity, but there’s multiple. It’s a very diverse community,” Dhindsa said. Seth Deitz, a business administration major, was particularly attracted to a booth’s puzzle games that measured balance. This booth belonged to the Nikkei Student Union, a Japanese-American club that participates in community service. Justin Fujii, the club’s vice president, said they were teaching students the history behind the kendama, a Japanese skill toy. The kendama is in the shape of a double-sided hammer the goal of the game is to get the ball, which is attached to the toy by a string, into one of the sides of the hammer. Fujii said what was once meant for children’s entertainment is now regarded as a very serious

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YouTube star Melissa Polinar performed an array of acoustic songs at the Engineering and Computer Science lawn on Thursday night.

pastime. “They’ve gone above and beyond, done crazy weird tricks and have had tournaments and competitions all over the world,” Fujii said. Deitz said engaging in the activities made him more aware of Asian-American culture. “For those who aren’t in the community, like myself, I guess it makes me more aware of the culture. It gives me the opportunity to inform myself and experience what they like and what the

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culture’s like so it’s a good opportunity for someone like me,” Deitz said. In addition to food and games, student performers provided a show. The main event featured a performance by singer and songwriter Melissa Polinar. Polinar said she has been writing original songs since she was signed by Warner Chappell, a music publishing company, when she was 17 years old. Despite growing up in Texas

and being surrounded by music, Polinar said she never considered pursuing it as a career when she was younger. “Being from an Asian family, they don’t really encourage being a musician as a career path. They’d rather you be in the medical field or engineering,” Polinar said. Students sang along to one of her most popular songs, “Meant to Be,” which Polinar said she wrote for a friend’s wedding. Vivian Ho, a fourth-year

business major, attended a previous Titan Night Market, and was excited to hear from new performers. She said events such as this one bring positive exposure to Asian communities. “In media, Asian-Americans don’t necessarily have a lot of exposure. Bringing an event like this and allowing the whole campus community to come out to this, I think it’s a really great opportunity for people to be more exposed to different cultures,” Ho said.

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Kriser’s Natural Pet booth emphasized high quality and natural food for dogs. CONTINUED FROM 1 “After (Angel) passed that day, she came to me in a dream — actually, a couple days later. She said that I was going to be making these healing gemstone collars, which is an extension of my healing gemstones jewelry that I make already for people, and that I was going to be making healing gemstone collars for pets,” Savino said. From that point, Savino learned how to start making hemp gemstone collars using a variety of stones including rose quartz, citrine and amethyst. Nancy Matsushita, owner of Little Paws Pet Boutique and a CSUF alumna, started her VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM

business in 2013. She worked in health care for 20 years and decided to take her severance package and do what she had always wanted. Her boutique features apparel and toys for dogs, cats and rabbits. “I’d be sitting down in my basement cubicle thinking, ‘This is something that I’d want to do.’ And I thought, ‘I’m just gonna go for it,’” Matsushita said. “I feel happier and healthier, and I just love giving back and (especially) giving back to organizations that do rescues.” Barks of Love has directly rescued 25 dogs and successfully had 20 dogs adopted.

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TUESDAY MARCH 26, 2019

Top: Rematch of Los Angeles Regional 1 In Friday’s win, senior Ari Williams went 3 for 5 coupled with a season-high of four RBIs and was a home run shy of hitting for the cycle. Williams leads the team with 25 RBIs and has a team-high of five home runs this year. The Moreno Valley native also leads the conference in stolen bases, with 11 for the season. Leading the Titans in hitting is second baseman Alexa Neil, who got her second consecutive Big West Freshman of the Week honors on Monday. Neil is hitting .409 for the season, ranking fourth in the conference, and her nine stolen bases is second in the conference behind Williams. The Titans pitching staff is led by the platoon of Sophie Frost, Dani Martinez and Taylor Dockins, who all rank in the top eight in conference ERA. Dockins is fifth at 2.16, Martinez is sixth at 2.41 and Frost is eighth at 2.70. Frost is fourth in the Big West in wins with nine, and fifth in strikeouts with 64, while Martinez’s 80 strikeouts is third. The game will be the 10th time the Titans and Bruins will face each other in the past three years, with UCLA winning nine of them. In each of those years, CSUF’s season ended with a loss to UCLA in the Los Angeles Regional of the NCAA Tournament. After both teams won their opening match-up of the national tournament last season, the Titans secured their first win against UCLA since 2013. Just needing one more win to advance to their first Super Regional since 2007, CSUF fell to the Bruins, 3-0. With one more game to decide the winner of the Los Angeles Regional, UCLA defeated the Titans once more, 6-4, en route to the Bruins’ fourth straight Women’s College World Series appearance. First pitch in Easton Stadium will be at 5 p.m. CONTINUED FROM

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Infielder Sam Kennedy collects a hit during Cal State Fullerton’s game against College of Charleston on March 17 at Anderson Family Field.

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TUESDAY MARCH 26, 2019

Euro League star now turned coach

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CSUF women’s basketball assistant coach Charel Allen talks to guard Raina Perez while on the bench at the Bren Events Center in Irvine.

Women’s basketball assistant coach Charel Allen won seven titles overseas. ARNULFO GONZALEZ Asst. Sports Editor

A Notre Dame legend and five-time Bulgarian league champion Charel Allen is a women’s basketball icon and the assistant coach for Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball. Although this is her current stop, it has been one of many for this decorated collegiate athlete. She proved early in her time with Notre Dame that she was a serious competitor, as she made the 2005 Big East all-freshman team in her junior year. Notre Dame may have a reputation of being a large school, but Allen says otherwise. “Everyone thinks Notre Dame is this big school, but it’s not. That just made the atmosphere that much closer. It felt like home, so I had a great experience, a lot different than others,” Allen said. There were about 8,000 undergraduate students during her time at Notre Dame, according

to Allen. Allen made history for the program, as she was the first player to accumulate 1,500 points, 500 rebounds, 200 assists and 200 steals. “Even in high school I wanted to be known as a well-rounded player. I guess with that stat line, that just says how versatile I was,” Allen said. Allen also had a professional basketball career, as she was drafted by the Sacramento Monarchs in 2008. “It was brief, but you gotta think, I was drafted, and not everyone can say they were drafted,” Allen said. “I’m saying that humbly where I just know, if you could play at the WNBA level, whether it’s short or play 20 years, you’re one of the elite players at that time.” Allen then played overseas in Turkey, Bulgaria and Israel. The most successful part of her European career was in Bulgaria from 2009 to 2017, where she played for four different teams, won a Bulgarian League title in 2012 and 2016 and won the Bulgarian Cup five times. “I stayed in Bulgaria for as long as I did because of the

atmosphere. It felt like Notre Dame, I felt at home, I felt safe, and that was really important to me. Just safety because you’re thousands of miles away from home, and I was out there by myself,” Allen said. Playing overseas is something that players from the WNBA consider as the season is longer and players get paid more due to a longer season in Europe. “I think it depends on what the players want, because I know a lot of elite players. I’m friends with Skylar Diggins and she doesn’t play overseas. She’s able to make a way of still living in America. Then there’s Diana Taurasi, who will play overseas and just dominates the way she does here. I think it’s easier to stay in shape and stay around the game, (since) the season overseas is about seven months,” Allen said. When she was a part of the Fighting Irish, Allen said Muffet McGraw, her head coach, told her she should one day join the coaching ranks. “Coach McGraw had put a bug in my ear around my sophomore, junior year and she said to me, I’ll never forget, she was

Women’s golf places second in tournament The Titans finished 6-over par at the Red Rocks Invitational to give them their best finish of the year. DEMETRIOUS HERRERA Asst. Sports Editor

After a narrow brush with victory at the Agave Highlands Golf Course in Arizona this weekend, Cal State Fullerton women’s golf team returned to Fullerton with a second-place finish in hand at the Red Rocks Invitational, scoring 6-over-par 858 for the 18-hole course. The two-day, three-round invitational hosted by Northern Arizona University took place in Cornville, Arizona, and showcased 18 collegiate women’s golf programs this Saturday and Sunday. Over the course of the weekend, the Titans were able to beat all but New Mexico State, who accumulated a team score of 1-over-par 853 to win the invitational. Fullerton’s first top three finish of the season was buoyed by individual play from freshman Lisa Djerf of Sweden, who led the Titans in solo statistics for the weekend, and finished even. Djerf’s score tied with New Mexico’s Kehler Koss and University of Montana’s Baylee Barckley for eighth place overall. Djerf’s teammates and fellow international students, junior Elsa Lundquist of Sweden and Felicia Medalla of the VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM

Philippines, had the second-best individual metrics for the Titans, with both of them tying for eleventh place overall, finishing one stroke behind Djerf at 1-over-par 214. As it was the last tournament of the month for the Titans, the Red Rock Invitational is as a much-needed reminder of what the Titans are capable of accomplishing in the season’s home stretch. Looking ahead, the Titans have only one more tournament, the Wyoming Cowgirl Classic in Maricopa, Arizona on April 8 and April 9. After the Arizona tournament, the Titans will enter a three-day bid in hopes to win their first conference title in the program’s history at the Big West Championships in Moorpark, California at the Moorpark Country Club. The tournament will take place April 15 through April 17. Since being reinstated as a program in the 2009-2010 season, the CSUF women’s golf team has consistently faltered in the Big West Championships, with their best finish coming from their 2011-2012 season, when the team placed third in the tournament. With the majority of a woeful season behind them, an encouraging second-place finish fresh in their minds and just one invitational left before conference championships, the Titans should bank on their reinvigorated team performance in Arizona as they enter the final leg of their 2018-19 season.

like, ‘Charell, you’ll make a good coach.’” Jeff Harada, head coach of the women’s basketball program at CSUF, spoke about his decision to adding Allen to his coaching staff. “Obviously, getting an endorsement from Coach McGraw at Notre Dame was big,” Harada said. “Throughout the process, we would communicate while she was still in Bulgaria playing professionally.” Harada said that it was his first impression of Allen that made him want to put her on his staff. “It was more after I got to speak to her a handful of times, I just felt a good connection. We thought the same things, we had the same philosophies and I don’t want to say I wanted to hire someone exactly like me, but someone who could also communicate the same message I had,” Harada said. Allen has proven that she fits this role well, as she also personable with the players. Sophomore guard Carolyn Gill was a player who thrived in both of her years with the program, as she led the team in

defensive rebounds this past season with six rebounds a game on the defensive end. “It felt pretty good knowing that now we have a coaching team which is just like a genuine friend. It’s someone I know can hold me to my best performance. She knows how good I can be, so she expects me to be good at every practice and with that a good mentality,” Gill said. Knowing that Allen is an athlete of a professional caliber held weight with Gill. “I see her as a coach, but it makes me respect the things she says even more. Just having a professional attitude and demeanor, on and off the court, is just the standard she holds me to,.” Gill said. Gill’s relationship shows how valuable Allen is to the team as a coach and a person. “She’s honest, and she’s extremely funny too. Having that combination is good because I can trust them. I know they want me to be at my best and do my best. I don’t hesitate to ask her anything, whether it’s on the sideline or just about a certain play, cause she understands me as a player,” Gill said.

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