Lyndsey Whilby’s basketball career was influenced by COVID-19.
After playing for Texas Tech (2017-18) and Purdue (2018-20), she took a break from basketball for safety reasons in 2020 and returned to her family in Georgia. After two years, she was back at it, playing for Kennesaw State (2022-23).
Currently in Romania, Swish Appeal talked to Whilby about her mom, who also played Division basketball, her pro career so far and her plans for the future. Highlights from the talk include:
On the best basketball advice her mom, a former Division-1 player at Iona College, gave her:
She just always reminded me, “Next play.” You can’t go back and change anything, obviously. So just remember, try to remind me, “Next play, you have to move on. What are you going to do next? Have short term memory.” I try to forget it, no matter if it’s good or bad. Forget it. You got to do the next play, so that’s something I always try to keep in my head. Just just try to forget it. You just gotta move on, the game keeps going.
On her decision to put her college basketball career on hold due to COVID-19:
[It was] just safety. Honestly, I didn’t want to risk it for myself and my family, and I wanted to just sit down, take a year to really refocus and get prepared for the next one, because I know I wanted to continue playing basketball. Since we had that opt-out year, that’s when I decided to go to Kennesaw, which is in Georgia. So I got to go back home, restart and got to play in front of my family and my friends, so that was great as well. So just taking that year to really refocus, figure out how I want to spend this last year. What do I want from it? What are my goals? And stuff like that. That was really good.
A special thank you to Dragan Milic and Darko Pekic of Alfa Globe for arranging the interview.
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