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Hayley Carter, a seven-time All-American at North Carolina, is adjusting to her position as an assistant coach on the OSU women’s tennis team.

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OSU vs. Kansas When: 5 p.m. Friday Where: Lawrence, Kansas

Hayley Carter stood silently.

In Athens, Georgia, Cardinal fans roared at the sight of the Stanford women’s tennis team’s victory against North Carolina in the quarterfinals of the 2017 NCAA Tournament.

The loss put Carter’s magnificent four-year career in Chapel Hill to an abrupt end. Going into the match, Carter sensed it could be the end of the road for her as a Tar Heel.

It didn’t make the defeat any easier to swallow.

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OSU assistant coach Hayley Carter started playing tennis when she was 6. She also played basketball, softball and baseball.

“I had a sense of like, ‘It’s fine,’” Carter said. “But then the next day when I woke up, that’s when it really hit me. I was just devastated.”

Eight months later, Carter once again found herself on the tennis court, which was

nothing new. So much was different this time, though.

Carter got goosebumps sensing the intensity build inside Michael and Anne Greenwood Tennis Center at Oklahoma State. All eyes were on Court 1, where

Cowgirl senior Vladica Babic was looking to complete a miraculous 3-0 comeback against Arizona State.

Babic dropped to the blue concrete beneath her as she watched match point scrape underneath her opponent’s racket. Carter calls the match her most special moment during her first season in Stillwater.

This time, it was Carter’s turn to celebrate, now as an assistant coach for the OSU women’s tennis team.

A natural talent It’s usually not that easy.

Carter first gripped a tennis racket in her hand at 6 years old.

One summer, she and her brothers, Jonathan and Andrew Carter, both 12, grew stale of being bored. The siblings went on a mission to Walmart, buying all sorts of miscellaneous sporting gear, from badminton birdies to ping pong paddles, but most importantly - tennis rackets.

Under the South Carolina sun, the kids walked five houses down to their neighborhood tennis courts, hauling their equipment with

them. There were two courts, side by side, with a tall fence surrounding them that attempted to keep the balls from flying out.

The fence didn’t always succeed.

Her brothers certainly looked like they were playing tennis for the first time. On many of their attempts, the twins’ swings either missed or flung the balls over the wall, rarely hitting their intended target.

Carter’s dad, Steve Carter, was also there, tasked with chasing down all the stray balls. However, he never had to run too far for his daughter’s shots.

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Steady and consistent, Carter was a natural from the start.

“That’s when we found out she was talented because she was actually beating her brothers at (6),” Sandy Carter, Hayley’s mother, said. “Which she enjoyed because at that point it wasn’t easy to do because they were so much older than her.”

Carter played all sorts of sports growing up, including softball and basketball. She even had a stint starring for the boys’ baseball team.

But tennis was always different.

It was on those courts in Columbia, South Carolina, where Carter’s tennis legacy began to grow.

Soon after, she attended a high school camp, where a

coach recognized her uncommon talent at 6 years old. At 8, she won her first national tournament.

“Tennis was a little something special,” Carter said.

Playing for him Carter was in the midst of her senior season at UNC, putting the finishing touches on a remarkable college career. The upcoming contest against Georgia Tech was just another match on the schedule.

Then the phone rang.

It was her mom.

Steve had been in intensive care since January following a surgery in which he had masses on his pancreas removed. He ultimately acquired a severe infection from the procedure.

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Hayley Carter poses in front of the trophies she won at North Carolina. She was a seven-time All-American as a Tar Heel.

“She put up a really tough exterior,” Sandy said. “When I would talk to her, she didn’t seem bothered, but I knew that she had to be because they were very, very close.”

When Carter was 11, she moved to Hilton Head Island to attend Smith Stearns Ten-

nis Academy. Steve stayed behind at his job.

Every Friday, he made the 2 1/2-hour trek from Columbia to be with his family.

Every Sunday, he drove back.

“He probably worked 10 years longer than he needed to pay for the tennis and to be

supportive,” Carter said.

In late March 2017, Sandy had to inform Carter her dad didn’t have much time left.

Initially, Carter didn’t want to go visit her father one last time. She didn’t think she could handle it.

After an emotional conversation with Brian Kalbas, her coach at UNC, and his family at the Kalbas’ home in Chapel Hill, Carter decided to travel home to be with her dad for his final moments and attend his funeral.

Steve died from an infection in his blood at 75.

Carter missed a week of practice and UNC’s match against Virginia. But it didn’t matter, she needed to be there for her family.

Returning to the court at home against Georgia Tech, her dad’s alma mater, Carter

came out inspired. However, she severely pulled a muscle in her right leg during her first singles set.

She couldn’t let that stop her.

Playing for her dad, Carter fought, scratched and clawed her way to victory against a top-50 player in straight sets on one leg, practically able to take only one step to the right.

It was all heart.

Carter felt almost numb during the match, but as she watched the final ball fly through the air, every emotion hit her. The entire team ran onto the court and swarmed her like she won NCAAs. The performance even brought UNC’s athletic trainer to tears on the bench.

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impressive and emotional events I’ve ever witnessed in my entire coaching career,” Kalbas said. “More than anybody else I’ve seen, if she puts her mind to something, she can accomplish it.”

Leading by example After graduating, the plan for so long was for Carter to play tennis professionally, but life doesn’t always go according to plan.

After Carter was injured in her first professional tournament, OSU coach Chris Young came calling.

He initially got to know Carter while recruiting her in high school. It was largely because of Young that OSU was one of the only two schools Carter considered away from home.

Although he missed out on her playing career, he was ecstatic to finally have her as part of the team six years later.

“I can’t say enough about Hayley,” Young said. “She’s created a good connection with the girls, and that was something I felt was really important.”

Carter has always had an innate ability to connect with people, an invaluable skill for a coach. Sandy swears she got that trait from her dad, claiming there’s no way it came from her.

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OSU assistant coach Hayley Carter led Team USA to the Master’U BNP Paribas Championship in France in 2016.

Kay was one year older than Carter. She formed a bond with Kalbas’ wife and son, becoming like family to them.

She truly cares about people.

Of course, Carter’s youth doesn’t hurt her in relating to her new team, either. Still only 22, she’s not even two months older than OSU senior Megan McCray, who competed against Carter in junior tennis.

However, she’s still growing into her coaching role.

“I’m definitely more a person who leads by my actions, and coaching has taken me a little out of my comfort zone by having to be more vocal,” Carter said.

“I’m a little more reserved and all that, but if I’m hitting with the girls, I’m going to work really hard and do everything the right way.”

Working hard is nothing new to Carter. At UNC, and even before then, she always gave everything she had.

Now that her playing career is over, Carter misses practices just as much as she misses the matches and the special moments. She treasures when the girls at

OSU ask her to hit cross courts for them, allowing her to get another brief taste of playing. She cherishes the grind.

To those who know her well, that isn’t surprising.

“On our team, everyone worked really hard, but seeing Hayley put in all of the extra hours even when she was hurt,” Kay said. “She was an inspiration to a lot of girls.”

Carter again is looking to make her mark. This time, it’s in a new profession.

Eventually, she hopes to transform a program like Young has done for OSU. With rare determination like Carter’s, it’s tough to doubt her.

“Everything she accomplished was because she worked harder than everybody else,” Kalbas said.

“There’s not a ball that she wouldn’t run for, there’s not a fence that she wouldn’t run through to try and get that extra effort to make that difference.”

Grant Ramirez is a sports media freshman from Grapevine, Texas. He can be reached at grant. ramirez@okstate.edu.

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The west wall of GallagherIba Arena is getting a facelift.

Tuesday evening, the O’Colly reported that Oklahoma State was installing a new jumbotron on the east end zone wall of Boone Pickens Stadium, which also happens to be the west outer wall of GIA. It won’t be ready for the Cowboys’ spring game April 28, but coach Mike Gundy gave details regarding the installation process Wednesday.

“I’m excited about it,” Gundy said. “I don’t know any of the details, that’s way over my head. But I’m excited about it. I think it’s something we needed. I think it’ll be a great touch for our facility.”

Although OSU hasn’t had an official announcement other than Gundy’s confirmation, the video board will extend to 6,160 square feet (56 x 110) and will cost $5 million to install, the Tulsa World reported Thursday.

Private donors will fully fund the video board.

“What’s interesting with our stadium, which I’ve always liked, I would image it being no different than what we do as men trying to get a man cave,” Gundy said.

“You’re trying to get a room where you’re comfortable and put the biggest TV you can in there.”

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The new jumbotron in Boone Pickens Stadium will hang across the five inner columns on the west outer wall of GIA.

screens measure 945 square feet. No other Big 12 stadium has a screen fewer than 1,000 square feet.

The new jumbotron is expected to become the sixthlargest video board in college football. It would be the third largest in the Big 12 behind Oklahoma’s (7,849 square feet) and Texas’ (7,370 square feet). The largest jumbotron in college football sits within Auburn’s Jordan Hare Stadium at 10,830 square feet.

“It’s kinda an arms race in college football now for facilities and video boards and such, but that was really the only thing that this facility was lacking, just based on technology and what’s out there in college football,” Gundy said.

Gundy said he doesn’t have a timetable on the installation process but was told it will be up and running by the Cowboys’ 2018 season opener Sept. 1 against Missouri State.

The decision to place the screen directly on the side of the arena rather than on the roof was in an attempt to not compromise the aesthetic

OSU Spring game When: 1 p.m. April 28 Where: Boone Pickens Stadium

and iconic likeness of GIA, a source told the O’Colly on Wednesday.

Although the jumbotron will block some of GIA’s windows looking onto Lewis Field, the placement and size of the jumbotron paired with the layout of BPS will create an unparalleled viewing experience for spectators.

“On our facility, the difference with us and other teams is that our board’s not gonna be very far away from you,” Gundy said. “So I would think that the fans are gonna be sitting there, and the proximity to where they are to the board, it’s gonna be like sitting in your living room. That’s what I think is gonna make it unique.”

Jeremy Kolok is a university studies sophomore from San Antonio.

He can be reached at entertainment.ed@ocolly.com.

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The sound of string instruments filled the Seretean Center.

Oklahoma State’s Symphonic Orchestra took the stage Tuesday night at the Seretean Center for its last concert of the season. Its program, “Three Cheers for Tchaikovsky,” consisted of three of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s pieces.

Thomas Neely, concertmaster and violinist, said the performance was interesting because he saw three different sides of Tchaikovsky.

The first piece was called “Polonaise.”

“The ‘Polonaise’ was really hard for the violins, and we all worked really hard to get it done,” Neely said.

Samantha Kerns, a cellist in the concert, said she also noticed the difficulty.

“The first piece is really cute and short,” Kerns said. “The violins had a tough part, but they nailed it.”

“Queen of Spades” was the second piece. Neely said it allowed the musicians to relax because it is delicate and light.

“The ‘Queen of Spades’ is not played as much and isn’t what you tend to expect out of Tchaikovsky,” Kerns said.

“It’s good to throw that kind of thing into the concert, though, because it gets the audience listing to stuff they wouldn’t really expect.”

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Thomas Dickey (right) pats Thomas Neely as he walks off stage.

one of Tchaikovsky’s most popular pieces. As much as crowds love it, Kerns said it’s hard to perform. This symphony required roughly 50 minutes of seemingly uninterrupted performing.

In any profession, complex tasks such as this concert typically take much time to perfect, but the orchestra prepared the concert with less time than usual.

“We surprisingly have not had many rehearsals,” Neely said. “Normally, we get about 12 to 13 rehearsals per performance cycle, but for this performance, we had eight.”

Thomas Dickey, the OSU Director of Orchestral Studies and conductor for the night, said he saw the short time frame as a challenge more than an obstacle.

“A part of my teaching philosophy is that necessity is the mother of invention,” Dickey said.

Dickey said he knew the orchestra members were up to the challenge.

“I could tell that they were excited about the music from the first rehearsal,” Dickey said. “It was music they really

enjoyed. They tackled it with more exuberance than they might have otherwise.”

“Three Cheers for Tchaikovsky” was the OSU Symphonic Orchestra’s last concert this school year.

“This year was more challenging than the year before because we added two extra concerts per semester,” Neely said. “But that is a really good experience for college musicians wanting to go into the professional world.”

With this concert season ending, Dickey said he’s looking toward next season.

“We already know we are going to be playing Beethoven’s ‘Fifth Symphony,’ which perfect strangers to music recognize as one of the most famous symphonies ever,” Dickey said. “We are also looking forward to doing a piece called ‘The Planets’ by Gustav Holst, which inspired a lot of modern sci-fi music.”

Isaac Dennis is a multimedia journalism sophomore from Stillwater.

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