International play the goal for Wesmen hoops star
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This article was published 08/11/2008 (6501 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
ONCE just her favourite game, University of Winnipeg sophomore forward Amy Ogidan began to see basketball in a whole new light after a whirlwind summer with Canada’s national women’s basketball team.
Ogidan now has her sights set on playing internationally and is part of Canada’s pool of players on the road to the 2012 Olympic Games.
“It definitely opened my eyes to the possibilities out there,” said Ogidan, a graduate of Winnipeg’s Oak Park High School. She and her Wesmen teammates hosted Fraser Valley Cascades on Friday and Saturday in Canada West basketball action in the U of W Duckworth Centre.
“I’ve always set a lot of goals for myself and part of that is having realistic expectations for yourself. After I got there and I saw that I could compete and that I was athletic enough and that I just need more experience. Now, after being with all these girls and hearing their stories about playing internationally, that’s something that I want to do.”
Ogidan, 19, was selected to Canada’s national women’s development team last summer and travelled to China where she competed in a three-game exhibition series.
Named the Canada West conference rookie of the year last season and to the Canadian Interuniversity Sport all-rookie team, Ogidan was scouted and invited to try out for Team Canada last spring when she was in Toronto receiving her award. She and former Wesmen star guard Uzo Asagwara, a national senior women’s team member, trained together through the spring and summer and then attended the camp. Asagwara and the senior team headed to France and Slovakia for exhibition games while Ogidan was named to the development squad.
“One of the things that was really reinforced for me that I took away from the experience is the work ethic. We had a slogan: ‘It’s not every four years, it’s every day for four years,” said Ogidan, noting there was a lot of discussion at the national team camp about the 2012 Olympics and being in the pool of players for that event.
“That just reminds us all that you don’t just wake up one day and become an Olympian.”