I’m just back from one of the sweetest weekends I’ve ever spent at Northwestern — my first-ever Women’s Sports Reunion Weekend. It all started when my pal Christine Brennan realized that many of the incredibly successful NU women athletes these days are seriously worried about what they’ll do when their playing days end, and even if they aren’t, we old-timers (and more young-timers) can offer them help/contacts/advice. So off I went … and it was SO much better than I expected.

The highlights:

– Watching our THREE TIME national champion women’s lacrosse team demolish North Carolina on Senior Day, 16-3. Lindsay North, a senior I’d met the day before at the mentoring sessions, scored a goal in her last home game. Can we say four-peat? (That’s their amazing Lakeside Field, on the shores of Lake Michigan, in the photo.)

– Hearing the story I’d read all over from the woman who lived it: Anucha Browne Sanders (NU Basketball ‘85), was the keynoter Saturday night. She called Isiah Thomas as a “workplace terrorist,” which pretty much sums it up for me.

– Reconnecting (after 25 years) with my college roommate — and basketball star/Wade Trophy finalist — Julie Callahan, now Bauer, and meeting Teegan, her teenage daughter. Callahan, how did we lose each other for so long? No matter, I’m glad we’re back.

– Seeing just how high the bar is set for me to ever have a hope of playing in the NU Field Hockey Alumni Game. First order of business: start running seriously again. Second: round up some of my old teammates to be there with me next time.

And there WILL be a next time. I can’t wait.