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good little article
" . . . “The Grizzly Way was just always about team culture and working really hard, doing it together,” he said. “Everything I saw at that young age I had no idea was going to be so applicable for the rest of my life basketball-wise. Talk about such good luck.”
Krystkowiak, who finished high school at Missoula Big Sky, had his No. 42 Griz jersey retired after he ended his college career as the all-time leading scorer and rebounder in UM history. He’s the only Big Sky Conference player to eclipse 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds. His advice to other small-town Montana kids with big dreams is simple: Decide what you love, follow your dreams and work hard. That comes from his experience as well as what he’s seen from parents in the travel sports scene.
“Basketball, to me, was never something that anyone said, ‘Hey, you got to go play, you got to go to practice, you got to make this team, you got to get a scholarship,’” he said. “I never felt any of that external pressure. I think that kind of counterintuitively probably made me more successful.” Krystkowiak is the fourth Griz and the first from the UM men’s basketball team to get the nod to the Big Sky Conference Hall of Fame. He joins football quarterback Dave Dickenson, Lady Griz player Shannon Schweyen and Lady Griz coach Robin Selvig, who were all inducted last year in the inaugural class. This is the third Hall of Fame nod for Krystkowiak. He was inducted into the Grizzly Sports Hall of Fame in 1993 and the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame in 2018 “Montana is a part of the Big Sky Conference and so to be able to represent the state of Montana by doing it in a conference setting I think has a little more pizzazz to it,” he said. “Multiple sports are involved with this as opposed to just basketball. It’s got a little bit of icing on the cake as well.”
https://406mtsports.com/college/big-sky-conference/university-of-montana/montana-grizzlies-basketball-larry-krystkowiak-inducted-big-sky-hall-of-fame/article_e40f4968-2923-11ee-b047-33156f37ff4b.html
" . . . “The Grizzly Way was just always about team culture and working really hard, doing it together,” he said. “Everything I saw at that young age I had no idea was going to be so applicable for the rest of my life basketball-wise. Talk about such good luck.”
Krystkowiak, who finished high school at Missoula Big Sky, had his No. 42 Griz jersey retired after he ended his college career as the all-time leading scorer and rebounder in UM history. He’s the only Big Sky Conference player to eclipse 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds. His advice to other small-town Montana kids with big dreams is simple: Decide what you love, follow your dreams and work hard. That comes from his experience as well as what he’s seen from parents in the travel sports scene.
“Basketball, to me, was never something that anyone said, ‘Hey, you got to go play, you got to go to practice, you got to make this team, you got to get a scholarship,’” he said. “I never felt any of that external pressure. I think that kind of counterintuitively probably made me more successful.” Krystkowiak is the fourth Griz and the first from the UM men’s basketball team to get the nod to the Big Sky Conference Hall of Fame. He joins football quarterback Dave Dickenson, Lady Griz player Shannon Schweyen and Lady Griz coach Robin Selvig, who were all inducted last year in the inaugural class. This is the third Hall of Fame nod for Krystkowiak. He was inducted into the Grizzly Sports Hall of Fame in 1993 and the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame in 2018 “Montana is a part of the Big Sky Conference and so to be able to represent the state of Montana by doing it in a conference setting I think has a little more pizzazz to it,” he said. “Multiple sports are involved with this as opposed to just basketball. It’s got a little bit of icing on the cake as well.”
https://406mtsports.com/college/big-sky-conference/university-of-montana/montana-grizzlies-basketball-larry-krystkowiak-inducted-big-sky-hall-of-fame/article_e40f4968-2923-11ee-b047-33156f37ff4b.html
