{"id":2940,"date":"2014-03-17T13:31:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T20:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2014-03-24T14:36:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T21:36:30","slug":"cascades-kayli-sartori-named-cis-womens-basketball-championship-all-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2014\/03\/17\/cascades-kayli-sartori-named-cis-womens-basketball-championship-all-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Cascades Kayli Sartori named CIS women\u2019s basketball championship all-star"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kayli<\/a>Kayli Sartori<\/b> was a little surprised Sunday night when she was announced as a CIS <\/b>tournament all-star following Windsor\u2019s<\/b> trouncing of Saint Mary\u2019s<\/b> in the national final.<\/p>\n

It might have been because Cascades assistant coach, Sean Bosko<\/b>, had warned her she was presenting the Bronze Baby trophy, because her teammates told her she was going to have to shake all the Windsor players\u2019 hands, or because UFV\u2019s communications staff warned her she\u2019d be awarding Player of the Game<\/b> honours.<\/p>\n

All of this was (of course) a conspiracy of lies designed to keep Sartori <\/b>from guessing the truth, that she was to be the first UFV player in program history to be named a CIS women\u2019s basketball championship all-star<\/b>. On her way to the court the third-year guard narrowly avoided being run over by Windsor fans celebrating the Lancers\u2019 fourth straight championship, yet eventually managed to collect her much-deserved reward.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving Kayli win an all-star is a really positive step forward for her,\u201d said assistant coach Anthony \u2018Pops\u2019 Luyken. \u201cIt really starts to solidify her role as the next leader on our team moving forward. We\u2019re losing some great leadership and Kayli has to step into that role. I think for her it\u2019s that symbolic moment that just speaks \u2018Hey, you\u2019re going to carry the torch.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Sartori <\/b>started all three UFV games during the national championships, averaging 11 point and 6.7 rebounds per game. She caught fire during the Cascades\u2019 bronze medal match against the Saskatchewan Huskies<\/b>, scoring 13 points (shooting 2-4 from behind the arc) and grabbing 9 rebounds. Her work against both Windsor in the semi-final and Saskatchewan in the final helped spark the Cascades to greater heights and revealed the leader that Sartori <\/b>is becoming on the court.<\/p>\n

A hard player to classify, even by her own coaches, Sartori<\/b> is an excellent mix of small forward and guard. She is as equally capable of taking over playmaking duties from teammate and starting point-guard Aieisha Luyken<\/b> as she is posting up in the paint or driving to the rim. Her versatile play allows Cascades head coach Al Tuchscherer<\/b> remarkable flexibility, as Sartori<\/b> herself recognizes:<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes Al\u2019s looking for me to score, sometimes he\u2019s looking for me to be a playmaker. It depends who we\u2019re playing and which position I\u2019m filling \u2026 I think that on the floor I bring a lot of versatility. If someone small is guarding me I can bring her down low, if she\u2019s a bigger player I can pull her outside and drive past her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sartori <\/b>also has high praise for coach Tuchscherer<\/b>, who she insists has not only made her the player she is today, but also is the reason she is actually playing CIS <\/b>ball. \u201cAl\u2019s probably been one of my favorite coaches to play for,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve been playing for him for the longest time, probably since I was 14 and just going into grade nine. I was always looking at the big picture, saying \u2018I\u2019m going to go play in the States, I\u2019m good enough,\u2019 but I really had difficulty with the academics. I don\u2019t think I could have played basketball in university without him, and he\u2019s kept me grounded and he\u2019s really been my person to lean on \u2026 I\u2019ve been through some hard times in the last three years and I think if it would have been any other coach, it wouldn\u2019t be the way it is today.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the award itself, Sartori <\/b>is honored, but knows that bringing home the bronze medal is a team accomplishment: \u201cTo be honest it\u2019s cool, but we all accomplished what we did, and it\u2019s hard sometimes to be pulled out of the group and recognized individually. I don\u2019t know if I deserve it. Actually, I think we all deserve it since I wouldn\u2019t be here without them and they wouldn\u2019t be here without me. All of us can say that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kayli Sartori was a little surprised Sunday night when she was announced as a CIS tournament all-star following Windsor\u2019s trouncing of Saint Mary\u2019s in the national final. It might have been because Cascades assistant coach, Sean Bosko, had warned her she was presenting the Bronze Baby trophy, because her teammates told her she was going … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[69,70,71],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kayli-sartori","tag-sartori","tag-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}