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stillers4me
03-05-2011, 07:27 AM
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The day she arrived at Oklahoma, Carlee Roethlisberger was known as Ben’s younger sister. It was expected territory when your older brother is the quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers and has won Super Bowls.

“It’s Carlee, though, has made a name for herself on OU’s women’s basketball team, which closes out the regular season today at Texas Techan extraordinary situation,” said OU coach Sherri Coale.

“Carlee has handled it like she’s handled everything else. She’s very grounded. What is private is private. She goes about her business and doesn’t expect anything different because of her last name.

“On many occasions if she could be known as Carlee Smith she would have done that because she wants to be treated the same as everybody else. She just wanted to earn opportunities. She’s handled it beautifully.”
This week Ben flew to Oklahoma City to attend Carlee’s last two home games at the Lloyd Noble Center. Ironically, Ben’s 28th birthday was Senior Night three days ago. Carlee is 21.............

Read more @ [URL]http://newsok.com/carlee-has-made-name-for-herself/article/3546211 (http://s3.amazonaws.com/newsok-photos/1378148/medium.jpg)

stillers4me
03-05-2011, 07:29 AM
Good for Carlee! and YEAH!!!!!!!!! An article mentioning Ben without mention the "you know what"......the media is finally evolving.......

Godfather
03-05-2011, 11:35 AM
That article was useless without pictures.