I can't believe it's already the start of second, and my last, semester as an undergraduate here at SLU. It's really nice to start classes again and have everyone back on campus.

Over winter break our basketball team actually came back on December 28th because we had several games early on in the month. On one hand, these first three weeks in January are tough because the majority packed up and traveled home for winter festivities, leaving SLU desolate, other than the athletes from different winter sports… and as we all know, Canton, NY tends to get really cold. On the other hand, something that I have always enjoyed during winter break and being up here is that for these past three weeks we really get to know what it feels like to be a professional athlete. All we set our minds to is going to practice, playing games and catching up on a lot of sleep, which you tend to lose out on when classes are in session. It was also really nice to have all of our games during winter break on the road and not here at SLU because we got to do some traveling and get away from campus a little bit. During the break most of the athletes stay at the Best Western University Inn, and this year it was really nice to see the renovations that had taken place. All the winter athletes were able to take advantage of the new facilities (i.e. indoor pool, Jacuzzi, saunas and a state of the art exercise area)!!!