Swish Appeal recently caught up with Isabelle Gradwell, a 6-foot-1 swingwoman born and raised in Marshalltown, IA. Although distracted by her new puppy, Gradwell told us about growing up in a small town, why she picked bioengineering as her major, playing for Cleveland State and moving to Minnesota for her senior year.
When discussing her pro career, she told us why 3s are better than 2s and why she’s the best player to have on your team in the month of March. Some other highlights from the interview include:
On playing in longsleeve shirts:
I just have always liked having something covering my arms. I don’t know. I honestly have no idea when I started doing it. I think it keeps me warm and I think that’s good as a shooter,
On having higher percentage on 3s than on 2s:
Personally I just emphasize my 3-point game more and I prefer to get a 3-point shot than a 2-point shot most of the time. To me, I’m just better at 3s than 2s, and that’s not the same for a lot of people because a lot of 2s are like layups and stuff like that. But if I had a layup or 3, I’d choose the 3 every time.
On majoring in biomechanical engineering:
I’m not interested in the actual hospital type of stuff. I don’t like blood. I don’t like any of that stuff, but I like technology that goes around medicine. How it can help people and biomedical engineering is something… there’s a lot of different sides to it where you can go into research or you can go into the industry and develop these new technologies. And stuff like that. So my sister, she’s four years younger than me, she has epilepsy, so she has seizures all the time and she’s she’s now starting, I think, to grow out of it a little bit, hopefully. But at the time when I was deciding on a major, I was thinking of her, like this is something that I could do and I could help her and kids like her because I know how much it affected her life.
A special thank you to Thomas Prodromou of Flash Agency for arranging the interview.
