Geuin proves her worth
Most valuable basketball players come in all sorts of packages.
The traditional is the all-everything scorer, rebounder, or any statistical leader, for that matter.
The non-traditional is Post Falls senior Katy Geuin.
Geuin, used sparingly as a junior for the Trojans, didn’t come out for this year’s team at first.
But after a senior quit the team early on, PF coach Chris Johnson picked up the phone.
Geuin, who admits to being disgruntled after warming the bench a year ago, answered the call.
But it wasn’t an easy sell.
“To be honest, I was kind of rude because last year I had to sit the bench the entire year,” said Geuin, a 5-foot-10 forward. “I told him that if I worked hard, I wanted to get playing time, and he said that things had changed and that it wouldn’t be a problem.”
She said it wasn’t easy coming back, for several reasons – rustiness, a little bit of an attitude, and “skeptical” teammates top the list.
“It was hard to get back into things, because I hadn’t played since summer league,” Geuin said. “I struggled at first, but then over Christmas break, I feel like I really improved, and now I’m even starting some of the games and playing a lot more.
“It’s been a lot of fun and I definitely don’t regret coming back at all.”
Johnson said he couldn’t be happier with Geuin’s effort.
“Katy’s one of those kids that, when you’re trying to build a team, she’s the foundation you want to build it on,” Johnson said. “She has all the intangibles you look for in a young lady, things that don’t necessarily show up on the stat sheet.
“She works hard and, most of all, she has just a positive attitude and she’s there for her teammates in every way you can imagine.
“She does all the little things that can go totally unnoticed when all you look at is the newspaper the day after a game.”
With a big game Friday night against Coeur d’Alene and a bigger game Tuesday in a 4A Region I tourney opener, all the Trojans need, Geuin said, is to have a few breaks go their way.
“It’s not like we’ve been getting blown out,” said Geuin.”We’ve been really close, but it seems like something always goes wrong and we just can’t close a game out.”