Your can't help but to notice her. It just shines out there. The players gather around their coach, preparing for the game. The game begins. Eighth-grader Sterling Schildt is matched up with a big guy.
Sterling is intimidated.
Watching from the sidelines, he sees this player handle the big guy with no inhibition. It was 1992 and Simarron Schildt had hit the big time. In her memory the Browning Middle School gym is enormous. To a sixth grade girl used to playing in a half-court gym with walls for out of bounds lines, it must have seemed that this court was endless. With only 60 kids K-8 in the East Glacier school, there just wasn't enough bodies to field two separate teams, so there was no team for girls.