Incandescent

Candice Wiggins is a basketball player who also happens to be one of the greatest leaders I've ever watched. I've never seen her in person, only on TV, but her presense is so powerful you can almost feel it through the TV screen.

I am not the only one who feels this way. She is decribed by the media as "joyous", "luminous" and, my favorite, "incandescent".

The first time I watched her play one thing was immediately apparent: she loves to play basketball. Her love for the game is evident in almost everything she does on the court, but most obvious because she plays with a smile on her face.


Wiggins never gets upset with her teammates, so matter what. If the team is playing poorly, she'll say something encouraging and get them to focus on doing one thing better. If the team is nervous, she'll do something to get them to relax. And, when everybody on the team is struggling, she'll take over the game herself. She, like any truly great athlete, has the uncanny ability to do whatever is needed, in a particular game, to help the team win.

Wiggins is also very humble. She never talks about herself. As Stanford's best player, she is often interviewed. In these interviews, she never takes credit for her team's success, but talks about all the things her teammates do to help the team win. If the team loses, Wiggins takes the blame herself.

Because of all of these things; her love for the game, her unselfishness, her relentlessly positive attitude and her will to win, her teammates absolutely love her. They even have a saying about her:

"Where there's a Wiggins, there's a way"