Television cameras and a reporter from CTV News were there to record the moment when student athlete Kaitlyn Schenck crossed a major threshold.
The women’s basketball player from Wilfrid Laurier University was on the team playing against Western. She took a running layup shot that made her only the third female player in Golden Hawk basketball history to crack the 1,000-point plateau.
CTV News “showed the moment when she reached the milestone,” recalled Jamie Howieson, co-ordinator of communications for athletics and recreation at Laurier.
It was a time of great pride for Schenck, her family, and her team.
Sport is full of dramatic, character-revealing stories like that. Incredible dedication and years of hard work can lead to ecstatic triumph. A stroke of bad luck — recall when a medal eluded boxer Mandy Bujold, after she got sick at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro — can throw an athlete into a pit of disappointment.
But these are stories that won’t be told here anymore. Not on television.
This week, CTV announced layoffs at local stations in Kitchener, London and Windsor. Sports coverage was the target.
Luisa D’Amato – Waterloo Region Record – March 30, 2017.
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