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This is from last May, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
The Shocker of a story
In a blog last month, I shared about my family’s love for the Wichita State Shockers. I shared rather unabashedly about a crush I had as a nine-year-old on a Shocker player who was there in the late 1980s named Sasha Radunovich.
Sasha hailed from the now former Yugoslavia and I thought he was so, so wonderful. I even got to meet him briefly at a practice for my wheelchair track meet. He was nice and incredibly pleasant and I’m happy to say that 25 years later, that hasn’t changed!
Now, how could I possibly know that?
Well, I got an email a while back that shocked me. To be perfectly honest, I thought at first it might be my cousins or brothers pranking me about the blog I wrote. I finally realized that this email was in fact from the Sasha Radunovich and he was writing from all the way across the world. He keeps up with the Shockers and through that found my blog. He was very kind and wrote to me about the blog and about his life since then.
I wrote back and we had a very pleasant exchange. I couldn’t wait to tell my family about it and they were as shocked as I was. They told friends and everyone encouraged me to ask Sasha if he would be willing to be interviewed for my blog. See, he was pretty popular back then and a lot of Wichita folks remember him and have wondered where he went after graduation. He is known for great ball playing and just being an all-around nice guy.
It was thrilling when Sasha agreed to the interview and to submit a current picture. I was pleasantly surprised that I recognized him from the photo (who else did I think it would look like?!?). My career plan to be a journalist began at a very early age and always thought it would be cool to interview Sasha.
In a blog last month, I shared about my family’s love for the Wichita State Shockers. I shared rather unabashedly about a crush I had as a nine-year-old on a Shocker player who was there in the late 1980s named Sasha Radunovich.
Sasha hailed from the now former Yugoslavia and I thought he was so, so wonderful. I even got to meet him briefly at a practice for my wheelchair track meet. He was nice and incredibly pleasant and I’m happy to say that 25 years later, that hasn’t changed!
Now, how could I possibly know that?
Well, I got an email a while back that shocked me. To be perfectly honest, I thought at first it might be my cousins or brothers pranking me about the blog I wrote. I finally realized that this email was in fact from the Sasha Radunovich and he was writing from all the way across the world. He keeps up with the Shockers and through that found my blog. He was very kind and wrote to me about the blog and about his life since then.
I wrote back and we had a very pleasant exchange. I couldn’t wait to tell my family about it and they were as shocked as I was. They told friends and everyone encouraged me to ask Sasha if he would be willing to be interviewed for my blog. See, he was pretty popular back then and a lot of Wichita folks remember him and have wondered where he went after graduation. He is known for great ball playing and just being an all-around nice guy.
It was thrilling when Sasha agreed to the interview and to submit a current picture. I was pleasantly surprised that I recognized him from the photo (who else did I think it would look like?!?). My career plan to be a journalist began at a very early age and always thought it would be cool to interview Sasha.
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