Life is Good for Big Syl

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Life is Good for Big Syl

By Emily Turner

When you are a 6'6" female all-American basketball player that can dunk, and you have your own fan club, life must be good.

"If I was Sylvia Fowles, I would be so big headed that you couldn’t get me through the double doors here at the PMAC," LSU head coach Van Chancellor said.

Fowles is a four time all-SEC selection with over 2100 career points. Plus, she’s a finalist for the Wooden national player of the year award. That’s a career that would justify anyone to walk around with their nose up in the air, right?

“No, but sometimes I wake up and I’m amazed at the things I have accomplished and am going to accomplish,” Fowles said.

What’s the next item on her checklist?

"A national title for me and me teammates. That’s all I want."

And it’s all she's wanted for some time now. Four years to be exact.

"Just getting there (the Final Four) is getting kinda old,” she said. “You want to get past that hump and make it to the championship game.”

And to give her team its best shot at success she knows she must “compete for however minutes I am out there on the floor and give them my best.”

Even if the Lady Tigers aren't the last team standing when the tournament ends in Tampa, Sylvia will look back proudly at her career in the purple and gold.

“We have accomplished a lot of things over the years,” she said. “We’ve done things that no team in history has done. So, win or lose, I still consider us winners.”

And if LSU wins six more games, the nation will consider them champions.

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