Freshman forward Charlotte O’Keefe plays for the UTRGV Women’s Basketball Team. O’Keefe is from Overland Park, Kansas, and graduated from Saint Thomas Aquinas High School. She plans to change her major to finance and hopes to work in something related in the future.
Q: What do you do for fun outside of basketball?
A: “Right now, I don’t have a lot of free time, but I do enjoy playing tennis with my friends when we do have free time. Recreationally, I’ve never played tennis before but I’ve started picking it up due to a few friends on the tennis team.”
Q: What movies or shows do you like?
A: “My favorite show ever is ‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘The Office.’ I enjoy both of those. ‘Gossip Girl,’ I started watching during quarantine, so I had all the time in the world. It’s a long series, around, like, seven seasons, 20 episodes or so a season and almost an hour an episode. … ‘The Office,’ same thing. Once you’re hooked, then, after the first or second season, it just takes up a lot of your time for a couple months.”
Q: Would you want to keep playing basketball or do something else?
A: “After these four years here, if the opportunity presents itself, then yeah, for sure. I would definitely look into it. Right now, I’m more interested in going and getting a job, then, hopefully, working my way up through a company or, hopefully, making my own company.”
Q: What has been your proudest moment?
A: “Well, my basketball [moment] is easy. It was winning state my junior year. That year, my little sister was on the team and we beat a team that was undefeated for two years. Getting this scholarship here, I was pretty proud of [being a D1 athlete].
Q: What do you like about UTRGV?
A: “I really like the [Rio Grande] Valley. I just like how everyone is so nice and welcoming here and so friendly and easy to talk to. I love my coaching staff that I have here. Honestly, it’s cool because how the athletes here are friends with each other and I have so many friends on different teams. … Here, we all live in the same place and it’s just so easy to meet people and everyone is so nice and welcoming.”
–Compiled by Jose Medina
