Wednesday, March 5, 2008
During tonight’s Sunflower Showdown with Kansas State, senior forward Taylor McIntosh will likely step onto Naismith Court for the final time in her four year career. Not that McIntosh is dwelling on Senior Night and her final game in the “Phog”.
“I guess it hasn’t really hit me yet,” she said.
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117 Games Played
114 Games Started
25.2 Minutes Per Game
6.1 Rebounds Per Game
5.8 Points Per Game
When asked what she will miss the most, McIntosh didn’t miss a beat.
“I’ve always said the fans,” she said. “Just seeing the same people come out and support you through all four years.”
McIntosh is the final remnant of former coach Marian Washington’s 31 seasons in charge of the program. Although she never played for the legendary coach, her presence has helped Washington’s successor, Bonnie Henrickson, build a solid foundation for the future.
But McIntosh’s career as a Jayhawk didn’t start nearly so smoothly. When she arrived on campus in the fall of 2004, she was surprised to find she had no place to live.
“They lost my housing contract, and I didn’t have anywhere to go,” McIntosh said.
Despite the rough start, McIntosh has been a model of consistency during her four years in Lawrence. During that time, the 5-foot-11 forward has started 114 of the 117 games she has appeared in, including 27 starts as a freshman, and has never averaged less than 4.5 points or 5 rebounds. This season McIntosh has stepped up her game even more, scoring 6.7 points per contest to go along with 6.8 rebounds.
Though word through the grapevine wasn’t all positive when she first arrived at Kansas, Henrickson said McIntosh has been a role model on the court and in the classroom for the last four years.
“The word on the street was she wasn’t going to work hard and she wasn’t going to compete,” Henrickson said. “I tell her I don’t know who was trying to pay who off, but we’ve never had that. She has always busted her tail to do things right.”
McIntosh said she hasn’t really thought about life after basketball, but said it will definitely be “weird” to not be around her teammates every day. She will graduate this spring as a pre-pharmacy major and hopes to begin working towards a graduate degree next fall upon acceptance into pharmacy school.
McIntosh said she hopes to end her career in Allen Fieldhouse with a win over the Jayhawk’s in-state rivals, but regardless of the result she doesn’t have any regrets about her decision to come to Lawrence four years ago.
“I was recruited by a couple other schools but once I got recruited by KU it was like ‘I have to go there,’ ” McIntosh said.
—Edited by Russell Davies
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