Oh sure...there will be a VERY few that might label her a quitter. To those, we say, "Shame on you."... last Tuesday night ...Sun Prairie traveled to its least favorite place – Janesville Parker. And the Cardinals’ trip came under abnormal circumstances with head coach Liz Hrodey and her assistant Steve Bartow on paid administrative leave. Taking their place were interim head coach Lance Annen and interim assistant coach Peter Gumina...
The two interim coaches entered their first game shorthanded without sophomore Ashley Bartow – one of the Cardinals’ top scorers and rebounders – who left the program after her dad was dismissed for the remainder of the season.
The Cardinals, who lost to the Vikings, 49-39, back on Dec. 17, returned home with a 57-32 defeat.--- Sun Prairie Star
Here is a girl, with an apparent love for basketball that every bit matches her skills. And Ashley is quite good...up to this distasteful disruption, she was the
8th leading scorer in the Big Eight conference (averaging 13.4 point per game) --as a sophomore. With the top 50 scorers rounding out at 16.9 ppg, she most certainly ranks in the top 100 statewide.
So...what's a girl to do? Continue playing the game she loves despite playing on a team in absolute turmoil? No. She chose solidarity for her family--displaced assistant coach Steve Bartow.
Tell us school board...how does THIS affect student achievement? More to the point...how could you sit back and allow YOUR employee to make decisions that caused this upheaval?
We'll tell you that the young lady will ultimately grow as an individual for making a difficult choice. But that has nothing to do with you. Sadly, depending on what the future holds, she also risks the potential to draw scholarship offers--at the least from a D2 school. We applaud her strength and convictions.
Ms. Bartow...you are a class act. And we're sorry this all had to turn out so badly.
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