Save The Date... Celebrate Women 2016 October 15, 2016 vBy Jeremy Hoeck We would love to hear about who and what inspires you. Know someone that should be featured in hervoice? Submit to: hervoiceonline.com en Carpet Lars 212 Walnut|605.665.2067 Historic Downtown Yankton Laminate | Porcelain | Resilient | Hardwood said. Seekamp said she has been invited to go home with teammates, but more often than not chose not to. “I honestly don’t mind being by myself. It’s a little bit of a break from the team,” Seekamp said smiling. This past holiday break, though, Seekamp spent time with another native Australian on the USD women’s basketball team, Jasmine Trimboli. Seekamp very nearly, however, might not have been in Vermillion this year. After last season, she applied for and was granted a fourth year of eligibility by the NCAA. When she had arrived at USD back in 2011, she was originally charged with the loss of one of four seasons of eligibility – because of her amateur competition after high school graduation. Last April, though, came the news she had been hoping for. Seekamp was working on a class project in the USD library when assistant coach Tandem Mays called. “’Coach wants to talk to you,’” Seekamp recalls Mays saying. “I thought, ‘Oh god, what did I do.’ But then she said we heard back from the NCAA and that it was good news.” In granting Seekamp a fourth year, the NCAA only required that Seekamp sit out the first two games of this season – a “withholding” in NCAA lexicon. “That was nothing,” Seekamp said, before pausing. “Until the first two games came, then I hated it.” Now that her final college basketball season – this time, officially final – is winding down, Seekamp has another decision to make: What next? Does she pursue professional basketball opportunities, and if so, where? The Psychology major, who will graduate later this year, said she is still waiting to see what her options could be before officially deciding on anything. She wouldn’t mind pursuing her interest in Massage Therapy back home, but there also might be more basketball opportunities – overseas, WNBA, etc. “Once I decide where I’m going next, I want to come back and keep working out with the team to stay in shape and be ready for whenever,” Seekamp said. If she has her way, Seekamp will head off for her next adventure coming off another trip to the NCAA Tournament. The Coyote women reached the NCAA Tournament in 2014, and last season won the Summit League regular season title – losing, though, to South Dakota State in the championship game. Doing all of that in the same year would make for quite a finish to her career, Seekamp said. “I definitely want to put it all together,” Seekamp said. “That’s the plan.” HERVOICEvMARCH/APRIL 2016v19