RH: "Wichita State Has Always Stood Out"

RH: Ashtyn Woods Listen to a podcast with the Shockers as they enter NCAA play

By Paul Suellentrop

Each spring, Mrs. Abby Walls asks her eighth graders at Rincon Valley Middle School in Santa Rosa, Calif., to write a letter about their future. She mails it to them before high school graduation.

"I opened it up at my graduation party," said Wichita State bowler Ashtyn Woods. "I started crying. Then everybody walked into the party and my dad said, 'I have to read this to all of you.'

"I said 'Dad, please don't do this.' He read it to everybody, and I sat in the next room bawling my eyes out."

The letter revealed that eighth-grade Ashtyn knew what she wanted – major in education and bowl at Wichita…