Wichita State’s Ashley Petersen is supposed to be interning for the Lake Erie Crushers, an independent baseball team in Ohio. Marketing, operations, tickets — interns do it all.
“I keep delaying it on them,” Petersen said. “Working with baseball is probably what I’m going to be doing in the future. I played it until I was 12, until I was told I was a girl and I wasn’t allowed to play any more.”
Petersen owns a good excuse for putting off the Crushers. She qualified for the NCAA Championships in the high jump after qualifying fourth with a career-best leap of 5 feet, 103/4 inches in the NCAA West Preliminary meet on May 27 in Lawrence.