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BUSTOS continued from page 7
Before coming to Nicholls,
Bustos served as sports infor-
mation assistant for two years at
Loyola University in New Or-
leans. There, he covered all 12
sponsored sports which included
volleyball, men’s and women’s
basketball and baseball.
Bustos helped the sports infor-
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mation staff earn national and
state publication awards for the
2009-10 men’s basketball bro-
chure as well as for the 2010
baseball guide.
While in New Orleans, Bustos
served as a game day member of
the stat crew for the New Orleans
Hornets and served as a com-
munications volunteer for the
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tour-
nament held at the New Orleans
Arena in 2010.
Before Bustos’ stint in Louisi-
ana, he completed an internship
in 2007 with the Chicago Cubs
minor league baseball affiliate,
the Tennessee Smokies. Bustos
worked in media relations, com-
munity relations, ticketing and
stadium operations.
“Minor League baseball is a
tough gig,” Bustos said. “Some-
times we put in a 100-hour work
week. It was definitely a great
experience though, as far as get-
ting some experience in every
department of media relations.”
Bustos graduated from Bowl-
ing Green with a bachelor’s in
sports management. While com-
pleting his undergrad, he worked
with BGSU athletics, University
of Toledo athletics, the Toledo
Mud Hens and the Ohio High
School Athletic Association.
BABIN
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Having started every game so far
this season, Babin says the amount
of play time she’s seen as a fresh-
man has made her mature a lot.
In part, “it’s because Coach Plai-
sance told me I couldn’t come in
here and act like a freshman,” she
said, but also because she looks up
to her older teammates. One senior
guard in particular, stands out to
Babin.
“Shakey, (Ricshanda Bickham)
came in here two years ago, and
she really believes in Coach and
works hard every day,” Babin
said. “If one of us is down, she re-
ally tries to get us going. She’s just
in it for the right reasons.”
Babin doesn’t just look up to
Bickham. She said the women’s
basketball team as a whole is her
favorite thing about college bas-
ketball. Babin said the team is a
good group of girls who are com-
ing together more every game. She
also enjoys the increased level of
play at the college level and said
the competition is one of the big-
gest transitions from high school
ball.
Babin’s stats don’t show diffi-
culty with the transition. She leads
the Colonels in steals, minutes
played and three-point field goals
made.
Plaisance and Babin agree that
Babin’s biggest assets to the Colo-
nels are the will to get other people
involved and do whatever it takes
to help her team win.
“Coach always says you have to
win as a team, so really that’s my
job. It’s not really about myself,
it’s just whatever I have to do to
help us win,” Babin said.
Plaisance said, “KK will get her
teammates open in distributing the
ball, she makes people around her
better.”
Babin plans to become a nurse,
but she said that she will probably
end up becoming a coach and fol-
lowing in the footsteps of Plai-
sance.