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WBB: Best Brink and Jump memories - 81alum - 03-29-2024

Time to focus on some feel-good things as we lick our wounds.  We just saw Brink's and Jump's last game for Stanford.

What are your favorite memories of each of them?  Best performances from each one?

The natural impulse is to say the national championship, but their were freshmen and not the key players that year. 

My favorite memory of Jump?  After last weeks finale at Maples, her pausing to wave to the crowd as she was the last one off the court.  And of course all those threes.  She made 8 a couple of times in the last few years...don't think she surpassed that in a game this year.

Of Brink?  Gotta be all those blocks.  Trying to remember her best blocking game.....she had 10 vs. Oregon last year.

RE: WBB: Best Brink and Jump memories - Hurlburt88 - 03-30-2024

I don't remember specific games, but multiple times in her freshman year Brink would get a block and then have almost a shy smile and looked like she didn't know what to do with herself.   I always found that mixture of a fierce rejection with a self-effacing smile endearing.

RE: WBB: Best Brink and Jump memories - StanFanFam13 - 03-30-2024

Thanks for starting this thread! So many moments that I want to remember. Cam and Hannah have the distinction of being stand-out players, exceptional teammates, and great role models.

I'll remember Hannah playing with joy and draining eight 3s in a celebratory, if not particularly dramatic, game against Cal Poly a couple of years ago. After watching her hover beyond the arc for a couple of seasons, somewhat removed from some of the action, it's been so gratifying to see her in the heart of it more recently. Scrapping and scrambling on defense, cutting inside for beautiful backdoor passes on offense, and being the one to call the team into a huddle on the floor, talking on every play, coaching younger players in real time and making sure no one gets too high or too low. She has been unfailingly grateful and gracious to us fans, and the love she has for Tara and the program is palpable. I can't remember if Hannah has ever expressed interest in coaching, but I can see her being very successful in helping other players develop and grow.

Cam's blocks will never not bring me joy, and it's been fun to see her make a few threes later in her career—something that clearly makes her smile even if it sometimes makes Tara stressed. Her passing, especially this season, has also been a thing of beauty. I remember a couple of quick, one-handed feeds and no-look passes that ended in a bucket for her teammates. And the fire with which she does absolutely all of it makes her a truly electric player.

I know fans on other teams may read this differently, but to me, the intensity Cam brings on the court—and even cheering from the bench—has been one of my favorite things in the last four years. I remember points in the national championship run when the cameras would pan over to her leaping up out of her seat, swinging her towel in the air, absolutely ecstatic about a great play that someone else had made. At every time out, if she's been sitting, she's first up off the bench to hug and hype up whoever has been killing it on the court—especially a fellow big.

And after years of seeing, well, a mostly older demographic in Maples, the number of younger fans who not only come to games but hang around after hoping for an autograph has been pretty notable. Credit to Cam and her family; she poses for every picture, often with shy young girls who her mom brings over to say hello. I distinctly remember seeing a little girl with her hair in Cam's signature braids and a poster with her name on it excitedly waving to catch her attention. Cam picked up the young fan and posed for a picture with her on her hip, and it looked like a moment that would stay with the youngster for a very long time.

I'm also grateful for how open Cam—a beautiful and talented person who in many ways seems to "have it all"—has been about her mental health struggles. I admire her vulnerability and appreciate the ways that her willingness to be open helps lessen the stigma. Plus, it's just really heartening to see the tone it sets for support and acceptance. Her family always says, "No matter the score, remember that you are loved," which feels like an important message that the whole team has taken to heart. I can't wait to watch her make an impact in so many ways at the next level.

RE: Stanford Softball 2024 - WBB fan - 03-31-2024

Don't know if this really is a memory as such re Hannah, but to me, what comes to mind at once is her announcement that she was coming back for her COVID year, after we had the three devestating transfer portal announcements. I saw it as an affirmation of Tara and her staff, as well as Stanford generally. That and her wonderful smile 

Re Cam, so many things. That 10 block game was Oregon last year, giving her the rare triple double of  points, rebounds, and blocks. Adding to the intensity of that, Steph Curry was at the game.  But my greatest memory of Cam comes from a post game press conference, again last year, in which she said something to the effect that she was at Stanford to get an education as well as to play basketball. That's not the quote, but the gist of her response to a question. She has genuinely been a STUDENT/ athlete, and it's people like that on the Stanford team that makes me a fan.

RE: WBB: Best Brink and Jump memories - BillBradley - 04-01-2024

For Hannah: How she outworked everyone and got her body in shape after her freshman year. So impressive.
For Cam: Easy. After the Hollingshed hand-on-face incident in the P12 Conference Tourney semi's her sophomore year, she followed with 3 great plays: an And-1 (and scream), D-board, and three pointer, prompting the tv commentator to say "I'm Cameron Brink, and you're not". We easily won 71-45 and making it 19 in a row against P12 competition.