Kayla Gordon’s university basketball didn’t quite have the storybook ending she had hoped for.
The Prince George product and Cedars Christian graduate fell one game shy of the U-Sports Final 8 National Championship as the Trinity Western Spartans fell last Saturday to the Calgary Dinos by a 65-63 in the Bronze Medal Game.
The result was a heartbreaking one, to say the least as the fifth-year player walked off the court for the final team as a member of TWU.
“It was just kind of like a grind and no one really was finding that magic play or that magic scoring look that each team was just going to keep going back to over and over as both teams were just going hard inside.”
“We were down by ten with about five minutes left and we came back and just ran out of time for that last push, it was definitely really hard to lose as no one wants to lose but I think we have so much to be proud of this season and so much we accomplished and how we just fought hard for each other.”
With the season now in her rear-view mirror, Gordon will now begin her life journey outside of basketball as she will be graduating from Trinity Western next month.
For the time being, she still in the Lower Mainland as her career path begins to take shape.
“I hope to do some travelling and work a little but nothing to crazy because in September, I actually have a job in an accounting firm down here in Langley so for the near foreseeable future I won’t be coming home quite yet, which is bitter-sweet because that is kind of where my family still is.”
“In the summer of 2019 I will be starting a master’s program in Saskatchewan, it’s kind of an interesting one where it’s over the course of two summers to get your masters in professional accounting, so that’s kind of my plan.”
Ultimately, Gordon’s long-term goal is to become a CPA when her course at the University of Saskatchewan is all wrapped up.
It’s pretty safe to say the Prince George native has come full-circle both as a basketball player and as a person, moving from her home town of around 71,000 people to a major global hub like the Greater Vancouver Area where the population is substantially larger at 2.45 million.
“These were very formative years for me just moving away from home and having to go through that and getting my university degree and learning through tough times and good times and just how to manage that and going from a smaller high school where everybody know who you are to where no one knows who you are, working through that and working to build a community in a much bigger city and I wouldn’t change my experience for the world.”
“I can think back to some of my early years and I can’t remember the score of the games but I can remember what we did on the weekends and the funny times at practice and the many friendships I have built along with the people who have sacrificed their time to help us to where we got to this year.”
Gordon exits Trinity Western as the women’s basketball all-time leading scorer.
WBB | And just like that, @kayla5gordon is the @twuspartanwbb team’s all-time career leader in points (1,114 and counting), passing @TrinityWestern alum Holly Strom! #WeAreAllSpartans pic.twitter.com/Sud1bmtMh1
— TWU Spartans (@TWUSpartans) January 27, 2018
