MENARDS. IT WAS A FULL CIRCLE MOMENT AT MARQUETTE TODAY FOR CARA CONSUEGRA. OVER A DECADE AGO, SHE LEFT MU AFTER BEING AN ASSISTANT COACH THERE FOR NEARLY A DECADE TO BECOME A HEAD COACH OUT EAST. 13 YEARS LATER, SHE’S BACK WHERE IT ALL BEGAN. BUT THIS TIME, AS THE NEW LEADER OF THE GOLDEN EAGLES, JARED FIALKO IS AT HER INTRODUCTORY PRESS CONFERENCE AND HAS MORE. WHO SAYS YOU CAN’T EVER GO HOME AGAIN? CARA CONSUEGRA SPENT SEVEN YEARS HERE AS AN ASSISTANT COACH, WENT OFF TO SPREAD HER WINGS, HAD TREMENDOUS SUCCESS IN CHARLOTTE, BUT SHE SAID WHEN SHE AND HER FAMILY GOT OFF THE PLANE AND RETURNED TO MILWAUKEE, IT JUST FELT RIGHT. I FEEL LIKE I GREW UP HERE AS A COACH. MY HUSBAND GREW UP HERE AND AND JUST WALKING IN AND KNOWING THAT I GET TO BE A PART OF THIS COMMUNITY AND REPRESENT THIS INCREDIBLE PROGRAM AND UNIVERSITY, UH, IT’S JUST AN UNDESCRIBABLE FEELING. IS THIS LIKE A PROUD MOM SORT OF MOMENT FOR YOU? COMPLETELY PROUD. MOM, WHEN I SAW HER NAME COME UP, THE JOY THAT I HAD IN MY HEART BECAUSE I KNOW CARA, I KNOW HER CHARACTER, AND I KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVE MARQUETTE AND I WANT THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO BE LEADING THIS PROGRAM. AND THEY COULD HAVE MADE A BETTER CHOICE IN TERMS OF BALL, CONSUEGRA SAYS. FIRST THINGS FIRST, SHE’S GOT TO GET A ROSTER TOGETHER, BUT GUARANTEES WHOMEVER SUITS UP WILL PLAY HARD, PLAY WITH A LOT OF HEART AND MAKE THE UNIVERSITY PROUD AT THE MARQUETTE ALUMNI MEMORIAL UNION, JARED FIAL