This past Saturday on March 31st the Captains went to Dallas, Texas for the Women’s NCAA Division III National Championship Game. With a 31-0 undefeated record heading into Saturday’s game, it came as a shock to all of CNU that they lost by five points. However, runner-up in a National Championship is nothing to sneeze at.

Players Camille Malagar and Lauren Fortescue sat down for an interview before the National Championship to discuss how far basketball has taken them.

Malagar has been playing since she was in kindergarten. “Both of my older brothers have been playing their whole life, and I look up to them a lot so that inspired me,” Malagar said.

Fortescue has a multiple sports background and explained that her parents put her and her siblings in multiple sports as a kid. “I probably started rec league at six or seven years old just because they wanted us to try everything,” Fortescue said. Fortescue came close to not being a college basketball player at all. “I played soccer in highschool. I was thinking about playing that too, but something about basketball is really fast paced. I think there is more energy in the game compared to the other sports,” Fortescue said.

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