Re: Trip to Australia in May

by **Stonehouse** on Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:47 am

mikemac65 wrote:Grant Tracy was from Redmond, Washington. He started slow, as a frosh, then improved greatly to become all WCC and a 1000 point plus career player.

Ah... OK! Thanks for the info. Not sure why I thought he was Australian... maybe he went down there to play professionally for a while? I remember Rick Brainard (another former Pilot) went down to Australia to play after college and ended up coming back to play in the Chiles Center with his Australian team for an exhibition game before the season one year.

by mattywizz on Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:25 am

Stonehouse, that posting hiatus you had seems to come with some ill-effects.

by mikemac65 on Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:12 pm

Rick Brainard was another of my favorite Pilots. What a list to compile. Art Easterly, Dan Hunt, Jim Dortch, Bill Garner, Jose Slaughter, Darwin Cook, Jim Altenhofen,etc, etc.

by onetouchfutbol on Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:33 am

cjacks14 wrote:wcc schools have looked to australia for recruits for a while. a patty mills is hard to find but there are always other very talented guys.

as far as south american recruits, from what i believe they get into pro ball earlier. so that would take them out of ncaa competition.

Yes, but, if I was a coach, I'd rather travel to South America.