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By Patrick Engel<\/strong>
\nMedill Reports<\/i><\/p>\n

The floral bouquets were delivered, the tribute videos were finished and the 2-foot by 3-foot action pictures were framed. It was 12:45 p.m., which on March 3, 2018 at Gentile Arena, meant the time had come for a sendoff.<\/p>\n

Loyola\u2019s seniors lined up with their families, paraded out to center court, embraced their coach, received bouquets and smiled for the cameras.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou think about the end even from the beginning of this season,\u201d said senior forward Katie Salmon. \u201cYou know going into it, it\u2019s the last first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salmon was the last player called on Loyola\u2019s Senior Day, with guard Jessica Cerda preceding her. They held their pictures and posed for photos at center court with Loyola\u2019s third senior, guard Lee Williams. <\/p>\n

Salmon and Cerda, two guiding presences on a team with five freshmen and two sophomores, have combined for 46 starts this season. Saturday was their last one at home. Before an 0-2 weekend against two of the Missouri Valley\u2019s top three teams, they had helped Loyola go 4-4 in the previous eight games. Their careers will end this weekend at the MVC tournament in Moline.<\/p>\n

The real story, though, is a confluence of two different needs for change that led to refreshed careers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJessica wanted something different, and Katie didn\u2019t want to go out and have her whole basketball career wasted, in her opinion,\u201d said Loyola coach Kate Achter.<\/p>\n

The paths and circumstances were distinctive. They united, though, at the same challenge: Change your story.<\/p>\n

The list of college basketball players who have won as many games in their senior year as they did in their previous three seasons combined surely isn\u2019t long, but Cerda is on it. In three seasons at Chicago State, she won seven games and lumbered through an 0-29 campaign in 2016-17. Loyola, even in a 7-22 season, has matched her Chicago State win total. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou had to be mentally strong to come into practice and say, \u2018We\u2019ve lost 28 games, but we have that last one to play,\u2019\u201d Cerda said. \u201cIt was a struggle because every day, you\u2019re like, ‘Is this even worth it?’ You put in the work and don\u2019t find the reward at the end. It\u2019s hard to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n

An opportunity came to keep going \u2013 elsewhere. Her sister, Natalie, a Loyola athletic trainer, told Achter last year that Jessica was graduating in spring 2017 with an extra season of eligibility, obtained because she redshirted in 2014-15 due to a knee injury. <\/p>\n

Turns out, Jessica had already introduced herself to Achter by scoring 22 points and hitting four 3-pointers in a December 2016 Loyola win. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf a kid is a competitor against you, that\u2019s probably a pretty good indication of what kind of student or co-worker they\u2019ll be for you,\u201d Achter said.<\/p>\n

When the season ended and Cerda had her release, Achter gave her pitch. Loyola needed a shooter, she told Cerda. The bigger sell, though, was a chance to break the losing theme. Cerda liked it, decided not to look elsewhere and committed in mid-April.<\/p>\n

\u201cI talked to her about changing her story,\u201d Achter said. \u201cWhat people talk about with Jessica is that she hasn\u2019t won very many games.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cerda is shooting 36.7 percent on 3-pointers and averaging 10.0 points per game. She has taken 81 more 3s than the next closest player. In her last nine games, she\u2019s shooting 41.6 percent from deep. She will try and win one more game this year than she did in the previous three when Loyola goes for win No. 8 on Thursday.<\/p>\n

A question persists, though. If Cerda wanted to win, why was Loyola the choice? It offered familiarity, her desired social work graduate program, and proximity to her hometown of Streamwood. But the Ramblers were in the early stages of a rebuild and were 2-28 in Achter\u2019s first year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been attracted to the building process,\u201d Cerda said. \u201cIt was harder to build off of a team that was continuing in a losing pattern for four years. It was difficult to find a building process because I started there and ended in the same spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Salmon
Loyola senior forward Katie Salmon (center) with Ramblers head coach Achter (left) and mother Brenda on Loyola’s Senior Day on March 3, 2018 (Patrick Engel\/MEDILL).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Salmon once sought a fresh start as well \u2013 away from Loyola.<\/p>\n

In April 2016, she was one of 10 players to request a release and permission to transfer. Some alleged that then-coach and former WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes had mistreated players. Swoopes denied the allegations, but Loyola fired her that July following an internal investigation. The school didn\u2019t give details for the firing or disclose the investigation\u2019s results.<\/p>\n

Salmon looked at other destinations, but hadn\u2019t found one by mid-July. The newly hired Achter called Salmon to say she could come to practice. So she did, the two met, and the decision was made. Salmon would remain at Loyola. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to think it was my charm,\u201d Achter said, grinning.<\/p>\n

What really swayed her into staying may sound familiar.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wanted to change her story, much like Jess wanted to change hers,\u201d Achter said.<\/p>\n

Salmon, who grew up in suburban Milwaukee, started all 30 games in Achter\u2019s first season, raising her scoring average from 1.0 point per game the year before to a team-high 8.8 points per game. This year, she has started all but five games and is averaging 6.7 points.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly I\u2019m super fortunate to have had two years to kind of let loose and play,\u201d Salmon said. \u201cI didn\u2019t get that opportunity my first two years. Being looked to for advice, being looked to as someone who\u2019s going to set the example has been really neat because I think I\u2019ve worked hard to get where I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salmon\u2019s and Cerda\u2019s career revivals don\u2019t expunge their prior trials and tough times. And Loyola, even in quest its climb upward, still finished ninth in the MVC. The pair has, though, taken control over the final chapters of their basketball narratives. That was the goal, and in reaching it, they formed a shared desire to try and change a culture and nurture the positive environment they sought earlier in their careers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know that I\u2019ve always been in that position, so it\u2019s really neat to start seeing some of that and know that the freshmen are in a good place for years to come and are more than likely to have the experience that I wanted to have coming into it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those were Salmon\u2019s words, but Cerda may as well have said them too. She echoed a similar refrain.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo come into this culture of trying to change that, since they struggled last year too with not winning, it\u2019s nice to be a part of it,\u201d Cerda said. \u201cIt\u2019s not necessarily a winning season, but it\u2019s getting in that direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Loyola eventually becomes a perennial conference title contender, this season will be remembered only as another step up the ladder toward that. No banner will hang in the rafters in celebration of 2017-18. Achter, though, will remember her seniors\u2019 new stories.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we gave both of them a reason to love basketball again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Loyola seniors Jessica Cerda (left), Lee Williams (center) and Katie Salmon post with their framed pictures on Senior Day on March 3, 2018 (Patrick Engel\/MEDILL). (Patrick Engel\/MEDILL).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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