[Nan3cy]

Any chance that Zhang goes pro?  The first non-basketball one-and-done I can remember was McEnroe, after he won the NCAAs his freshman year.

Actually the first Stanford non-basketball one-and-done may have coincidentally been a female golfer: Mickey Wright.

No way to know who the first one-and-done was, but Wright was at Stanford for a single year before turning pro and becoming one of the greatest golfers of all time.

I met Mickey Wright in 1963 when the Women’s Western Open was played at Maple Bluff CC in Madison, WI, where my family played. She went with us out on my dad’s boat on Lake Mendoza early that week, and she was beyond cool to 15-year-old me. And she was very kind to a star-struck kid.

[Nan3cy]

Any chance that Zhang goes pro?  The first non-basketball one-and-done I can remember was McEnroe, after he won the NCAAs his freshman year.

Actually the first Stanford non-basketball one-and-done may have coincidentally been a female golfer: Mickey Wright.

No way to know who the first one-and-done was, but Wright was at Stanford for a single year before turning pro and becoming one of the greatest golfers of all time.

I met Mickey Wright in 1963 when the Women’s Western Open was played at Maple Bluff CC in Madison, WI, where my family played. She went with us out on my dad’s boat on Lake Mendoza early that week, and she was beyond cool to 15-year-old me. And she was very kind to a star-struck kid.