CLEVELAND — Whereas the Iowa Hawkeyes ladies’s basketball staff is led by none apart from Caitlin Clark, her right-hand lady is from proper right here in Ohio. Gabbie Marshall, a fifth-year guard, is a Cincinnati native and can play in her second Ultimate 4, this time in her dwelling state.
What You Want To Know
- Gabbie Marshall is a fifth-year participant for the Iowa Hawkeyes
- Marshall is a Mount Notre Dame grad and helped the Cougars win two state championships
- Marshall’s dad says he hopes Gabbie enjoys each second of her last weekend taking part in basketball
- Marshall says taking part in the Ultimate 4 in her dwelling state is a full circle second
Gabbie Marshall was a playmaker on each side of the ball within the Elite Eight in opposition to LSU. However that’s all the time been Marshall’s recreation.
Marshall, a two-time state champion at Mount Notre Dame in Cincinnati, is happy with her roots.
Gabbie Marshall helped the Cougars to 2 state OHSAA Division I state championships (Picture Courtesy of Ernest Marshall)
“It’s sort of a full circle second for me,” Marshall stated throughout Ultimate 4 media day. “I began taking part in basketball in Ohio and now I’m ending my profession in Ohio. My last video games taking part in basketball are going to be in my dwelling state. And so it’s sort of cool to consider that. It sort of provides me the chills.”
“Gabbie actually grew up in Cincinnati her whole life,” stated Ernest Marshall, Gabbie’s dad. “So Cincinnati’s dwelling for her. To see the neighborhood help an athlete that’s graduated 5 years in the past, that’s a particular neighborhood.”
Her dad shares that the relationships she made at MND, together with along with her former head coach Physician Scott Rogers, have been pivotal in getting Gabbie to the place she is at this time.
Gabbie and her dad at a MND occasion (Picture Courtesy of Ernest Marshall)
“We really feel very blessed that she made that call, it was the suitable match for her,” Ernest stated. “I talked to Doc yesterday. He texts her and went to see her at observe at Ohio State. These relationships have continued on even publish her time in highschool.”
Physician Scott Rogers (center), Gabbie’s coach at MND, visited the Hawkeyes observe once they performed at OSU (Picture Courtesy of Ernest Marshall)
Now, Gabbie is again within the Ultimate 4 for a second straight yr. However this Ultimate 4 is just a little additional particular for this Ohio child.
“They put the event areas out a lot upfront and so I used to be speaking to my spouse and I used to be like O my God, it’s in Cleveland, go determine it’s the yr after she graduates,” Ernest stated. “After which COVID hits. And swiftly, Cleveland turns into a actuality. And perhaps it was meant for Gabbie Marshall, this Cincinnati, Ohio hometown child, to return to Cleveland and end out her profession. And I simply suppose that’s actually particular.”
Regardless of the outcome- this might be Gabbie’s last few days in a Hawkeye uniform. So what was her dad’s message earlier than the weekend?
Ernest hopes Gabbie remembers to have enjoyable throughout her last weekend of taking part in basketball for the Hawkeyes (Picture Courtesy of Ernest Marshall)
“You may have performed this recreation because you had been three years previous, three years previous!” he stated. “And that is, in faculty basketball, that is the most important stage. So get pleasure from it, adore it. And I all the time inform her to play exhausting!”
And whereas he’s one proud dad- he’s additionally taking all these lasts in a single last time.
“I’m going to overlook the video games,” he stated. “I’m going to overlook watching them play. I’m simply going to overlook these younger ladies. I simply suppose they’re particular. I actually do.”
