Crystal Langhorne wants more play in The Diamondback.

The senior forward first asked me for a Gameday layout in the paper before her Terrapin women’s basketball team played Ohio State back in November, and even after I told my editor about her specifically requesting the section, it didn’t happen.

Before I interviewed her this afternoon after practice, Langhorne asked me again for a Gameday section in Friday’s paper in anticipation of Senior Day on Sunday against Florida State.

I referred her to Monday’s coverage of the Terps’ win at Duke on Sunday, which included two stories about the team, the full box score, and the Up-and-Down and By The Numbers sections typically reserved for men’s games.

She said she’d seen it, and admitted she was impressed, but she still wanted something for Senior Day.

I told her I’d do what I could, and I started my interview.

Toward the end of the Q+A, I asked her “Senior Day’s Sunday. What do you think that’s going to be like?”

“Lots of tears,” Langhorne said. “It’s a lot of us so [pause…grin] I think it should be a big deal in The Diamondback. Who knows? I think they should have the old picture of when we were freshmen and like a new picture of when we’re seniors and compare them. So who knows what The Diamondback’s going to do, but it’s a big day.”

So Crystal Langhorne wants a Gameday layout and a photo montage in Friday’s Diamondback.

Crystal, I did what I could.

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