Cass Chen

Bio:

Cassandra began her career in water sports are the ripe young age of 3, where she swam around the pool with little help at all. And when we say swam, we mean drifted, arms wrapped in floaties (the big orange/yellow inflatable arm bands), and probably in an inner tube as well.  From there, her career only improved exponentially, learning to "really swim" without ANY help, a few years down the line.

Going into high school, with this incredible swimming background, she did not expect to be the laughingstock of the team.  But she was.  Apparently no one else ever managed to learn to swim using floaties, so they actually knew to bend their arms while swimming (as opposed to Cass's rare and special technique of flailing my arms in quasi-circular motions, as if invisible floaties still attached to my arms prevented any elbow-bendage and were the only things keeping me afloat.)  With a little work, she managed to adjust her style, and became the goalie of Mountain View High's Junior Varsity Team.  Her coach insisted it was because she had long arms and killer goalie-instinct, incessantly denying any correlation to the position where the least amount of actual swimming was necessary.

So began her water polo career.  And boy did it begin, with an undefeated, er, defeated season.  Her team lost every game of the whole season.  Yet her fondest memory of polo still rests in this year.  "As the pool was 25 yards long, I hadn't yet developed the arm to set the ball from way back in her cage.  After pleading for a release for a good 15 seconds, her best friend in the hole screamed, 'Someone give Cass a F*CKING release.'  Needless to say, her efforts were far more successful than mine, as she was kicked out and the ball was turned over.  Still, I appreciated the support from my fellow teammate."

But in all honesty, she did improve after her first year, and even swam Varsity her freshman year - just to keep in shape for polo, since everyone knows that swimming is unbelievably boring.

By sophomore year, she was starting Varsity goalie, until the last varsity goalie began crying because she was not getting playing time.  So they shared the cage for the rest of the season.

By Cass's junior and senior years, she had the cage to herself.  She was the team co-captain and ranked as a 2nd All-League Team player for both these years.  Being in her senior year, she had no reason to do swimming now that polo was over.  So she didn't.  Why not?  Because it's unbelievable boring!  Then she decided to take a year off before college (senioritis needed a year to rub off), so she's basically been sitting around for almost 2 years now.

Now at Northwestern, Cassandra has joined the Wildcat squad.  She's with a group of awesome ladies, who really need to beat her lazy butt back into shape so that maybe she can get some game time and block some Big 10 balls!

AMO FOR HOMECOMING QUEEN!!!

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