Through Their Eyes: Dylan Richter – Volume One
What’s up everyone!
This is Dylan Richter from Chicago, Illinois-northwest suburbs to be exact- at approximately 1:36 AM Monday morning after an intense video game session. We are very serious Halo 3 gamers here at Wash U so if anyone wants to play that’s a shout out-get at us! (I’m kidding we’re all really bad, but we mess around and have a good time). So I’m finishing up my first year here at Washington University-IN ST. LOUIS, and it’s been a blast. Classes are tough, I’m not going to lie, but this semester is going pretty well-all I have to do is study for finals for about a week and half now and I’ll be all done-we’ll see how that goes.
Now onto the good stuff-the first year as a Wash U Bear on the basketball team was definitely a success. We won the University Athletic Association conference and ended up winning the Division III national championship for the 2nd year in a row in Salem, Virginia. It was a pretty crazy experience. We knew coming into the season we would have a target on our back and have to play teams at their best which is exactly what happened. We only finished with 2 losses but we played a lot of good teams this year. I had a great time with the guys on the team and there’s tons of stories I could tell ya but I’m going to wait until next year, so you’ll have to keep coming back to read them to see what happens!
I was blessed with the opportunity to come in and contribute my first year with about 15-20 minutes off the bench, and I’m very happy and thankful that I had that opportunity. I gained a lot of experience and I’m really looking forward to next year so we can try and make another run at that national title. Unfortunately in the 1st playoff game I came down on somebody’s foot and instead of anything happening to them, I, of course, decided to go ahead and break mine. It was real rough/tough watching the rest of the games without being able to physically go out and do much but I threw on my cheerleading outfit-not literally-and screamed my way to the championship with them.
Fortunately, well not really fortunately but anyways, Sean Wallis-our ALL STAR point guard, was out last season when he broke his leg so he experienced a similar situation and was able to help me out with the situation-thanks seanzino, <3 ya-along with the rest of the team. This was 7 weeks ago and I have hopefully-knock on wood- 1 more week to go until I get the cast off for good (this Friday). Tip: Don’t break anything in your lower half that makes you use crutches if you can avoid it-crutches are no fun!!!!! I had a medical van that helped me get to classes but gettin’ everywhere else was tough. After the cast comes off for good me and my toothpick right leg-there is nooo muscle left whatsoever-have a nice 6 week road of rehab to drive down so I’m going to be getting after that and I’m really looking forward to it. I can’t wait to start playing and running…and walking…again. I’ve been trying to get in the weight room for some upper body stuff so hopefully I won’t be 100% out of shape, but we’ll see.
This summer will be busy full of rehab, basketball, and work and I wouldn’t have it any other way- I’ll let you all know how it goes as I find out.
Take care and love ya’ll!!!! Till next time
Dylan Richter
