Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
While the Wright State women overpowered Slippery Rock, 82-45, Monday at the Nutter Center thanks to several efforts — Kacee Baumhower had 17 points; Rachel Loobie and Alexis Hutchison both had 16 — the most impressive performance of the night came from freshman guard, Ellie Magestro-Kennedy.
She didn’t score. She didn’t play. She didn’t dress.
But that’s not to say her presence didn’t dominate the night.
She not only turned in a yeoman’s performance Monday — as she does every day — but she was the inspiration for one of the most important outings the Raiders will have this season.
For this game, Wright State partnered with SLAMT1D to broaden the awareness of Type 1 diabetes, a lethal, life-altering autoimmune disease that has no prevention, no cure and afflicts some two million people in the United States. And that number is on the rise.
Magestro-Kennedy was diagnosed with T1D when she was a freshman at Janesville Craig High School in Wisconsin. But the disease didn’t deter her. She lettered four straight years in basketball, scored over 1,000 points, twice won all-state honors, and received numerous Division I scholarship offers.
