 I grew up in Solon, Iowa, which is a small town in the Midwest USA. I grew up playing a variety of sports, pretty much anything to get my hands on, and basketball was the one that I was the best at, the height definitely helped that out, and so I continued to play on the college level and then finished off at the pro level. I got to Australia originally when my college team did a tour in Australia. We played some professional teams, and each professional team is allowed two imported players and generally they're Americans, one of the coaches was looking for another import and asked me what I was doing and I said nothing, so that's how I got here. After we get done on court, we're out in the city with the kids doing such promotional work in the schools, clinics getting out there, teaching the kids about basketball, but not only just basketball, but sports in general, healthy lifestyle. We just really try and give back to the community that has given so much to us. Hello, this is Kara. Since I can remember during my studies, I always knew I wanted to do something in the helping profession, and I grew up with a few cousins who were hearing impaired, so I was aware of what speech pathologists do, and once I started some of the classes I just fell in love with, helping people with communication difficulties. So a typical day for me would be supervising a number of speech pathologists in our Coniston office as well as in our office. Dave came out before we were married and I was still continuing getting my masters and then came back and we got married and four days after our wedding we moved out here. We were out here probably about two years and we really fell in love with the place, we thought this is a great place. I know we both just felt really, really proud and honored to be able to say that we're dual citizens of both the US and Australia. I remember on the day they were announcing all the different countries that were present in receiving a certificate, just thinking about how several people that were there were probably coming from, you know, maybe they needed to flee for safety reasons and just the sense of emotion that they would be feeling on that day and just how lucky we were and how fortunate we were to come from such a wonderful country and then now to be a citizen of another great country. I feel very privileged to be able to be a speech pathologist in Australia knowing that I'm helping people with disabilities and helping them communicate better and having a better quality of life so I feel quite privileged. I love playing in Australia, we love living here so I love to keep playing professionally here obviously. I love playing for the Hawks, ultimately any player's dream would be to represent their country and play at the national level you know so that's obviously the ultimate goal but right now I'm very happy with what I'm doing playing professionally for the Hawks and I hope that continues for a long time.