Late on the Monday following Jackson’s injury, Koenig texted the Badgers’ floor leader some heartfelt thoughts. Maybe this is why Jackson seems so at ease after scooting into a Kohl Center players’ lounge recently, still at least a month away from a return. “In terms of a prepared backup, I don’t know if we’ve had one as ready as Bronson,” Gard says. His assist-to-turnover ratio of 4.3-to-1 ranks second nationally to Iowa State’s Monté Morris. In four starts, Koenig has averaged 12.3 points and 2.5 assists in 35.5 minutes while shooting 56.7 percent from the floor and 52.6 percent (10 of 19) from three-point range. If he continues his ascent at Wisconsin, Koenig's growth as a role model for Native Americans everywhere will be expedited as well. They came two hours for inspiration and found it. A little less than a year later, LaPointe notes the speech's impact: Two of her grandsons are on the Winnebago team and were in that audience, and they have attacked academics with a new vigor to become 3.0 students. Then he autographed pictures - brought by LaPointe - and accepted a Winnebago basketball T-shirt. He told them to have the courage to leave the reservation. He emphasized the need for the boys to attend to academics and stay away from substance abuse. In a hotel conference room, Koenig spoke about his upbringing and basketball. “He probably studied that speech more than he did the scouting report,” Gard says. There are those who remember it differently. He claims he had no prepared remarks and no one told him what to say. “I was a little more nervous about that than the game, to be honest,” he says. The trick was Koenig managing to tell it. The Winnebago group drove more than 100 miles to listen to Koenig’s story. "We wanted the boys to hear what he had to go through and how hard he had to work to get to where he is," LaPointe says. She asked Funmaker if Koenig would speak to the Winnebago boys’ basketball team on the trip.
She had followed Koenig since high school, and discovered last March that he would be playing at Nebraska. How did Mike Krzyzewski reach 1,000 wins? With a million small stepsĬherie LaPointe, the director of a youth empowerment program for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, was the first to book Koenig for an inspirational talk. All told, the estimated percentage of American Indian/Alaska Native adults who rated their health as fair or poor was 30.8 percent as of 2010, the highest figure of any group. Diabetes in particular has beset the Ho-Chunk, according to the nation’s president, Jon Greendeer in 2010, the CDC listed it as the fourth-leading cause of death for Native Americans. Smoking prevalence was down but still highest among subsets at 34.4 percent. Prevalence of binge drinking ranked second-highest to non-Hispanic whites, but the intensity of binge drinking (8.4 drinks per episode) was highest among all groups. The number jumps to 26 percent of adults aged 18 to 24.
As he became a Top 100 recruit, a two-time state champion and the Wisconsin Player of the Year as a senior, the dynamic gradually shifted to how Koenig’s tribe needed him.Īccording to the CDC’s most recent health disparities report from January 2013, 18.8 percent of the American Indian/Alaska Native population did not complete high school, the second-highest figure among race/ethnicity subsets.
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