Feb. 26, 2010

Published Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010
Everett Herald catches up with a hometown student-athlete in a weekly feature they call their College Athlete of the Week.

Tim Diederichs

Sophomore | Loyola Marymount | basketball

Hometown: Snohomish (Snohomish High)

What he did: Played 19 minutes in the Lions' upset wins over ninth-ranked Gonzaga and Portland last week.

What's next: LMU wraps up its regular-season schedule at St. Mary's on Saturday before competing in the West Coast Conference (WCC) tournament next week.

The two-minute drill

It was a pretty big week for LMU basketball, what with wins over ninth-ranked Gonzaga and Portland. Was it just one big party down there?

Yeah. We've been waiting for something like this to happen since -- well, for me, since my freshman year. We always felt we had the ability, but we've just had a lot of injuries. The school is really fired up right now. Our student section has been great; they're coming to all the games. It's been fun, man.

Beating Gonzaga had to be especially sweet. Is it safe to say they're like the big, bad wolves of the WCC?

You've got to. They've been running the conference for the last ... I don't know, 12 years? It's been since I was in elementary school, when Casey Calvary was still playing for them. So it was very, very special.

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