Credit Ron Ellis for seeing the future.
When Sammi Mikonowicz was in eighth grade, Ellis, her CYO coach, commented, “Mark my words, you’re going to read about this kid.”
He was right. Mikonowicz’s name has appeared in The Blade 377 times, as the 5-foot-10 Rossford native scribbled her name throughout the University of Toledo women’s basketball record book.
On Saturday, she will play her 75th and final game at Savage Arena, drawing the curtain on a basketball romance between Mikonowicz and the Rockets that is equal parts extraordinary and implausible.
“I will be pretty emotional,” the cheerful Mikonowicz said.