Elle Tinkle is taking it easy this year. Really. Long hours on the Gonzaga basketball court are often followed by longer ones at Sacred Heart Medical Center. She’s also taking 13 credits of upper-division classes. That’s the easy part, insists Tinkle, who’s enjoying the chance to “stretch” her senior year with a lighter load. “I’ll take that for sure,” she said with a laugh. If that doesn’t make sense, then you don’t know Elle Tinkle, a 6-foot-2 guard whose grace on the basketball court belies a get-’er-done grittiness in every phase of her life.