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Ronhovde Hits Milestones
02.20.2007 | Women's Basketball
It's only February, but 2007 already seems to be the year for milestones in the life of
In case that list weren't enough, Ronhovde says there are many other milestones in her last three years as a Cyclone that she treasures.
“There are a lot of things that you'll take with you, probably too many to put down on paper,” Ronhovde said. “But there are definitely some games that stick out in my mind.”
She recalled when she made the winning shot at
Ronhovde, a seven-time Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll student, plans on graduating in May with degrees in marketing and management.
“Right now I've been applying with different companies,” Ronhovde said. “The outlook is probably getting into sales or with a marketing agency.”
Also on Ronhovde's mind is her future with new fianc?, former ISU defensive back David Rahe. She and Rahe initially met about three years ago through some mutual friends.
“There's a group of us that got together for lunch second semester of my freshman year,” she remembered. “We started eating lunch together for probably two or three months before we actually started dating.”
“[Rahe] graduated from ISU in December with a construction engineering degree,” Ronhovde said. “He's an assistant project engineer for Pepper Construction in
A small-town girl from
“Living in a small rural community was not really an option,” Ronhovde explained. “Where I'm from, there are not a lot of job opportunities.”
She also likes the appeal of a big-city life. “If you want to do this, now's the time: when you're young and you don't really have any ties with a family or anything like that.”
When asked who the better athlete is, Ronhovde didn't hesitate. “[Rahe] started out as a walk-on, and was able to earn a scholarship his senior year. So for me, I look at that as something that took a lot of hard work and is very commendable on his part.”
She also humbly claimed that although she and Rahe are “not the most athletically gifted people on earth,” they find a way to make up for it.
“I think we compensate with the hard work that we put in during practice and on game day,” Ronhovde said. “We find what we're good at and we do it very well.”
A focused leader, Ronhovde laughs at the fact that she didn't even know she was close to 1,000 points at the beginning of the season, and instead of basking in the midst of joining the elite 1,000-point club, she is busy concentrating on the remainder of her team's season.
“I think you get to the end of the season and that's always the goal, to try to make it to the championship,” Ronhovde said. “Whether or not that happens is still one of the things that we're looking at right now.”
Ronhovde says her best lesson from basketball has been to never give up.
“There's a lot of perseverance that goes into playing college athletics,” she remarked. “I think whether it's at work, school or in life in general, you're always going to have challenges that are thrown at you and you have two options: throw in the towel and say ?that's good enough,' or you can battle back and try to find a way to make the best of the situation that you've been given.”
Proof of Ronhovde's perseverance is in the numbers. In her career, she has averaged 8.5 points and 5.4 rebounds. She is also the 18th Cyclone in school history to record 1,000 career points. She sits at number seven on career rebounding list with 652, and is ranked third on the career three-point chart with 223.
For this Cyclone, the end of her career is best taken one day at a time.
“It's certain games and memories, that you share with your team that you remember the most,” Ronhovde said. “I'm just trying to live in the moment and embrace the opportunity that we've been given and really enjoy it here.”
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