LJ g BB: Loux locked in on publicity

Forward Skyla Loux is wearing

out the La Jolla media lately.

(Photos by Ed Piper)

By Ed Piper

"Ed, where have you been?"

"Ed, you need to come to more of our games."

Skyla Loux was locked in on a media person, and she demanded answers.

Actually, the outgoing, good-natured rising junior was in her usual friendly mode.

This was Tues., July 11, after La Jolla's basketball game against Otay Ranch in the Grossmont High summer league.

Flashback to the Viking track team's dual meet at Hoover High last spring: Loux, a sophomore then, preparing for the day's two throws--shot put and discus. Very social, very engaging, in her element talking with her throw event teammates and friends gathered inside the far west gate to the Hoover campus.

During a dual meet, there is a lot of dead time; i.e., tie to schmooze and hang out with fellow student athletes.

That is something the frontcourt player for Coach Darice Carnaje's Viking basketball team does well: hang with the "gente". While teammate and point guard Rebecca Saul is much quieter, more likely to give a stranger a look than a word, Skyla--her last named pronounced "locks"--will play the "Hail, fellow, well met" role of verbally greeting someone.



Viking players huddle briefly inside after the game

before Coach Darice Carnaje moves them outside.

"I looked on your blog and I didn't find any stories on us," Loux said, back on the hardwood after the Vikings' basketball game against the Lady Mustangs, which they lost by eight.

The media person she was directing these comments to replied, "Four paragraphs on your last game."

Loux apparently did not see them.

Skyla will continue to be counted on by Carnaje for grabbing some of the rebounds La Jolla has missed ever since Satori Roberson moved on to Grossmont College two years ago. Roberson, at that point of development, wasn't polished. But she did grab a number of defensive rebounds off the glass just due to her athletic ability.

Loux is helped up front by Sina Anae, who also is a good athlete but who hasn't played a lot of basketball. Otherwise, Carnaje starts Petra Eaton, Saul, and Kat Kurtchi, all of whom are more suited for the guard spot.