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‘I’m forever grateful for his mentorship and friendship’
Jared A’Latorre Staff Reporter When Dr. Kayse Shrum was announced as the 19th president of Oklahoma State University, she shared some advice that was given to her by her future predecessor. During the press conference for last week’s announcement, Shrum talked about conversations she’s had with current OSU president, Burns Hargis, about what the position is like to serve as the leader of OSU. “President Hargis and I have talked many times about leadership and really throughout my career, and what has stuck with me the most from him and the first Cowgirl is that, if I were provided the opportunity, that it is an unbelievable experience and privilege to able to serve as the Oklahoma State University president,” Shrum said. One of her first goals is to engage with the students, staff and faculty. Shrum said that she hopes to keep in contact with Hargis throughout the
Dr. Kayse Shrum is preparing to make history as OSU’s first female president.
transition and even retirement. “President Hargis and I, I imagine, we’ll continue to stay in contact throughout the years and for the next several months as we transition,” Shrum said. “I’m forever grateful for his mentorship and friendship.”
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Shrum will make history as the first female president at OSU. “It is just a tremendous opportunity,” Shrum said. news.ed@ocolly.com
Swinging for a breakthrough
Chris Becker Staff Reporter
Claire Boomer Maja Stark hits her ball down the fairway at Day 1 of the Cowgirl Classic at Karsten Creek on October 22, 2020 in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Hanging rafters of Oklahoma State’s Gallagher Iba Arena are banners for all 52 NCAA National Championships in school history, but something’s missing from those banners. A women’s title. OSU has had good women’s teams in all sports on campus over the years, but none of them have been able to capture the elusive championship. “You look up into Gallagher Iba and see all those banners able to put one up there that says women’s golf or have a women’s sport up there would obviously be something incredible,” OSU women’s golf coach Greg Robertson said. Now in 2021, the OSU
women’s golf team is trying to change that, and they’re on a good path to do so. “I think everyone here wants to win a National Championship,” Cowgirl star Maja Stark said. “I think it would be really cool if we were the first women’s team at the school to win an NCAA Championship. We all have it in our minds.” The Cowgirls are on a tear in the midst of their 2021 season. They have won their last two tournaments, three total this season, and have won five individual events. “Just to see this group right now, they’re working hard, they’re a talented group,” Robertson said. “I know it sounds cliche, but we just have to keep taking it one step at a time. If we do all those little things, all that other stuff will fall into place. Robertson, since taking over, has completely turned around the program. Before Robertson took over the Cowgirls See Swinging on pg. 5
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sports The Busbys: A major league pitcher father and an OSU softball daughter
Dean Ruhl Staff Reporter Mike Busby threw his final major league pitch July 8, 1999. He tossed three scoreless innings in relief as the St. Louis Cardinals, the team he had spent his entire career with, lost 8-5 to the Cincinnati Reds. Forty-one days later, his daughter, Hayley, was born. Hayley Busby, a senior at Oklahoma State, is an integral part of the Cowgirl’s softball lineup. The influence her father has had is playing a crucial role in how she has developed. “He’s had a huge impact on me and of course on my career as a softball player,” Busby said. “He always likes to claim that I’m the son he never had.” Mike Busby’s career in the MLB ended before his daughter was born, but she was around during his time spent in the minor leagues in Memphis and Indianapolis. “I don’t remember a lot of that kind of time,” Hayley Busby said. “I get to hear all the stories; I get to listen to him talk about his time when he was playing.” Mike Busby retired from professional baseball at 28. He returned to Phoenix, where he had lived since 1991, opening up a batting cage in 2002 called Hardball USA. He thought that people would be interested to be coached by a former major league pitcher.
File Photo Haley Busby at bat during the No.14 Oklahoma State vs. Missouri State softball game on March 8, 2020 at Cowgirl Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma
“I would be there all the time,” Hayley Busby said. “I wanted to be there. When people were done with their rounds and they were picking up balls I would jump into a cage and start picking up balls. I even threw the machine on myself and tried to hit it when I was five years
old.”
Mike Busby operated the cages for several years, eventually closing them in 2005. “She was always doing something,” Mike Busby said. Hayley Busby was playing with baseballs before she started walking. She was fielding ground balls while
other kids watched cartoons. She was swinging a bat before she had started elementary school. Hayley Busby’s playing career began with baseball, not softball. Just like her father, she was a pitcher. It was See Busbys on pg. 7
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Lifestyle
Humans of OSU: Morgan Stinnett
Ryleigh Clem, Staff Reporter “I’ve always loved working with children, and I just felt called to it, I guess. I want to help give back. All of my favorite people in my life have been teachers. “[My most impactful teacher I had was] probably my ninth grade English teacher. Her name was Miss Arthur, and she was incredible. She was the most fun person I had ever talked to; she was very down to earth. I was having a really difficult year my freshman year, so it was sort of like this oasis. We were in this prefab in the middle of campus, and she let me come in for lunch and just, like, talk forever… she was great.” -Morgan Stinnett, elementary education sophomore.
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mark how far the program has come, and would be his second repping the orange and black as he was a part of the 1995 NCAA Championship team at OSU. “To win a NCAA Championship you have to have a talented team, No. 1, you have to be peaking at the right time and you have to have some things fall your way,” Robertson said. “If you take care of all the things you can control, your attitude, your work and preparation that’s when special things start to happen.”
had not had a multiwin season since 2015-16. In the seven seasons prior to Robertson the Cowgirls won just ten total events. Robertson has led the Cowgirls to four in just two seasons, with his first season being cut short due to COVID-19. A National Championship win would be more to him than just the first women’s title in school history. It would sports.ed@ocolly.com
DON’T STUMBLE! (Part #3) “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate one another,” (Mt.24:9-10) All this I told you so that you will not go astray. (stumble) They will put you out of the synagogue, in fact a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.” (Jn.16:1-2) The are many places in the scripture that tell of persecution of true believers. Jesus said if they did it to me they will do it to those who follow me. (Jn.15:20) Many times this will separate the true believers from the false. No one likes hardships, difficulties and certainly persecutions, but the challenge comes and we don’t want to stumble and fall away.
Jesus speaks to the Smyrna church in Revelation: "I know your afflictions...slander...do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer...the Devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be careful..." Does God allow persecution and trials of different kinds? He certainly does! Couldn't God deliver them out of bad situations? Of course! Sometimes He will and sometimes not. He even governs how long the difficulties will last. These are times when we see the grace of God in wonderful ways. His grace is made perfect in weaknesses. (2 Co.12:9) That is why we are not to be offended at God's ways. Difficulties can seem to be hindering the very work of God, but the Lord is working in and through the situation to accomplish something good in the end.
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sports Busbys... Continued from pg. 3 something she said her father persuaded her to do. At 10, Hayley Busby made the transition to softball and a change in position. “She tried to pitch in softball,” Mike Busby said. “I just let her do what she wanted. She liked to hit, she liked to catch, then she found her niche at third base.” Hayley agreed. “When I went over to softball, we did pitching for about two months and that was about it,” Hayley Busby said. “I feel like it really wasn’t my thing.” Shortly after switching, Hayley Busby tried out for a travel team, Club Liberty. Her father said she fell in love with the team. “She likes more of the mental game,” Mike Busby said. “We go back and forth, talk a lot, she knows a lot about sports. She’s my boy if I ever had one.” Busby said he coached all of her teams to some degree. He finished coaching her after she turned 18 and played her final season of travel ball. Her father was her coach and played an important role in her development. Hayley Busby said they butted heads early in her playing career. “We did butt heads a lot when I was younger,” Hayley Busby said. “It was like, I was young, he was a professional, he knew what he was doing. Now that I’m older and in college, we don’t disagree too much anymore.” Mike Busby said his competitive spirit led to them butting heads, but it quickly helped to build a stronger relationship. “I was probably just like any other parent,” Mike Busby said. “I just wanted her to be successful. I wanted her to
know that whatever you do in life, you don’t take no for an answer. That’s been her mentality the whole time. Prove people wrong.” He said it’s the Busby way. The Busby name means you have to work hard. There isn’t an easy path and nothing is given to you. Their work ethic proves it. Busby attended high school at Sandra Day O’Connor in Phoenix, lettering four years, and was named the 2016 Arizona Gatorade Player of the Year. It’s an achievement her father said made him realize his daughter could play college softball. “In high school, when she got Gatorade Player of the Year, I just knew this was something she wanted to do,” Busby said. “I’m a firm believer that all these girls can go to college. There’s a college for them somewhere.” Busby started her college career at Virginia, spending her freshman and sophomore season with the Cavaliers before transferring to OSU, a
Busby said. Mike Busby makes time to attend every Cowgirls game he can, even while owning a restoration company in Phoenix. He travels every weekend to Stillwater or wherever OSU is playing. Coach Kenny Gajewski said he has developed a relationship with Mike Busby because of how frequently he attends games. “I’m a baseball guy, so I think when we talk it’s easy conversation,” Gajewski said. “He was a great player obviously to play in the big leagues with the Cardinals, and he knows a lot about the game. I think that’s where Hayley has gotten a lot of her instincts and savviness from watching and seeing him.” Gajewski said his former teammate Kevin Levinger is close friends with Busby, and the three have a group text Claire Boomer they occasionally use to exchange stories. difficult move for her. “We just talk and laugh “Virginia will always about stories and stuff like have a special place in my that,” Gajewski said. “I’m heart,” Hayley Busby said. “I recruiting the kid more than love the girls on that team. My the parent, but the parents are dream has and always will be a huge deal as we go through to go to the World Series, and with all this stuff.” unfortunately that program Hayley Busby’s biggest didn’t seem like it was the best influence was her coach. A fit for me.” coach who happened to be her Virginia also made her father. A father who taught her switch positions. Hayley Busby the passion and love for softwas accustomed to playing ball. third base, she transitioned to “I definitely don’t think shortstop while at UVA, a dif- that having him as my dad or ficult move. having him play professionally “They stuck her at shortgives me an edge over anybody stop and that was all kind of else,” Busby said. “I think that new to her,” Mike Busby said. it gives me a little more pas“You play third base your sion for the game. I think it whole career then you’ve got to gives me just kind of that fire go to shortstop, it’s different.” to go be better and work really Mike Busby said his hard.” daughter made the move to For her father, he is happy OSU because she wanted to be to be her fan. a part of a winning organiza“Hopefully she can contion. When she arrived, Hayley tinue her success that she has Busby bounced around posihad over the past couple of tions, starting in the outfield at weeks and hopefully they have times. Her father had one piece a legitimate shot at the chamof advice on what to do. pionship,” Mike Busby said. “I always told her one thing, if you hit, they will find sports.ed@ocolly.com a place for you to play,” Mike
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