Coach sees Werven’s own success improve from own teaching

By Benjamin Hanson benjamin.hanson@marquette.edu

In the heptathlon, you don’t have to be the best at every single event, but you do have to be competitive in throwing, running, hurdling and jumping.

The heptathlon includes the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200-meter dash, watching film on how we lost in the last five minutes,’” King said.

“You have to put 40 minutes of basketball together. For us, I felt we did that.”

Marquette slowly built its lead in the final period and went ahead 51-44 on a senior forward Chloe Marotta jumper with 1:35 left. Despite a late comeback from UConn, Marquette closed the deal for the program’s first-ever victory over the Huskies.

“In some ways I’m speechless, but my next emotion is that I’m just incredibly proud of these women and what they did tonight. This is a historic win for Marquette women’s basketball,” Marquette head coach Megan Duffy said.

With the win, Duffy became just the second person to ever defeat a Geno Auriemma-led UConn team as a player, assistant coach and head coach. Duffy beat the Huskies twice as a player at Notre Dame (2002-06) and then as an assistant coach at St. John’s in 2012.

“I’ve had a chance to spend a lot of time around Megan and her husband at the Big East meetings and Megan was a hell of a player as everybody knows at Notre Dame, but one thing I’ve found about Megan that really pisses me off is she’s entirely too chipper for me,” Auriemma said.

“That kid is never not happy. She’s never not supportive of her team, and she’s never anything but upbeat.”

“I love the way she coaches plain and simple. She coaches to

This is a historic win for Marquette women’s basketball.”

her personality, and that’s how she was as a player, and that’s how she coaches her team. They play with that same toughness and physicality that she played with.”

UConn came into the game

Since then, Rose has procured a long list of lacrosse achievements. In high school, he scored 80+ goals during his junior and senior seasons while also being honored as a U.S. Lacrosse AllAmerican in 2018.

Prior to transferring to Marquette this past offseason, Rose spent the last four years at St. Bonaventure University. During his final season with the Bonnies, Rose set the team’s all-time single season goal scoring record with his 40-goal season while posting the second highest shooting percentage in the country.

“It wasn’t necessarily a goal of mine, the record,” Rose said. “It was more about helping the team find success. Knowing what we’d all been through together and we wanted it all, to get to the same spot and to win a conference championship.”

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long jump, javelin throw and 800-meter race.

With so many different events, first-year multi-event athlete, Cole Donahe said that you can’t put all your power into one or else the six others will be tough.

“Being successful comes from using your energy correctly,” Donahe said. “If you know you’re not the best at one event, you can’t stress about that too much, because you have six other ones that you can make up for that mistake. The events you’re really good at is where you devote your time because that’s where you’ll get the majority of points.”

Senior multi-event athlete

Simon Werven said he follows this advice, and because of it, he received first place in the heptathlon event with 4,842 points at the Bill Clinger Classic in Michigan. The best score you can receive in every event is 1,000 points.

“It was a great meet. It was our first heptathlon of the year, so it’s really good to get back into it,” Werven said. “I’ve broken 5,000 points last year so it wasn’t the score that I wanted, but at the same time, it was really great to get back out there and perform the way I did.”

With the knowledge that Werven has gained from his success and extensive experience, first-year multi-event athlete Gus Kasun said that Werven can give younger ath-

“He [Werven] told us that we’re not going to be the best at everything, but you just have to embrace the jack of all trades role,” Kasun said. “He emphasizes that we have to be comfortable with the uncomfortable and that we have to adapt to every single new environment that we’re in with all seven events.”

Multi-event coach Adam Meyer said he sees how Wer-

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