Ramsay Carter
| 2025 Draft Candidate | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | |
| Ram-zee | |
| Personal information | |
| Species | Golden Dart Frog |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of birth | August 13, 2004 |
| Birth place | Atwood College |
| Listed height | 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) |
| Listed weight | 221 lb (100 kg) |
| Shoots | Right-handed |
| Education | |
| School | Atwood College |
| Player Contacts | |
| (IC) Agent | TriangleDelta |
| (OOC) Creator | TriangleDelta |
Biography
When the Winnipeg Voyageurs were founded in 2011, it kicked off a rush of excitement for basketball in the city. Almost overnight, outdoor courts became crowded and basketball programs for kids exploded in popularity. People went to the Voyageurs' games in droves, and they loved their home team. In the back of their minds, though, many Winnipeg sports fans were wondering when they would have a star player of their own to rally behind in the league.
It didn't take long for the city to focus its hopes on Ramsay Carter and her older sister Meg. Meg had a well-established reputation in the street courts around Winnipeg as a flashy, cocky player that could dribble circles around any opponent. She was physically dominant and would go one-on-one against any challenger, and legends say she never lost one of these challenges. Ramsay was always on the court during Meg's street games - despite the four year gap between them, Meg insisted on Ramsay being allowed to join in. The Carter sisters were brash and cocky, but they always backed up their boasting with raw skill and athleticism. As the pair grew older and Meg found fewer and fewer opponents that were actual challenges for her, she started passing off some of her one-on-one challengers to Ramsay instead. To the surprise of many, despite the age difference between her and her opponents, Ramsay was able to wipe the floor with almost any challenger her sister passed her way.
Thanks to the massive increase in interest in basketball in the years following the founding of the Voyageurs, both sisters were quickly scouted for local development programs with bursaries from the city. The intense, targeted training helped both sisters increase their finesse, and paired with their raw athleticism and skill from playing street ball, they were forces to be reckoned with. Meg was soon making the sports sections of local and provincial papers on the regular as she carried her high school to provincial and national tournaments. A local television station did a feature on the sisters, proclaiming their street games, "the second-best basketball you could watch in the city, after the Voyageurs."
During the summer before Meg went away to play college basketball in the States, the Carter sisters finally gave the people of Winnipeg what they'd been demanding for years - the two frogs announced that they would have a one-on-one game against each other before Meg went off to school. Hundreds turned out at the outdoor court to watch the unofficial event. As many predicted, Meg won that day, but people were caught off guard by how narrow a lead the fourteen-year-old Ramsay held her sister to.
Ramsay was picking up where Meg had left off, already leading her new high school's team to a likely sweep for the season, when she learned of her sister's sudden death. It was a freak coincidence - a combination of an extremely rare kidney condition, Meg's intensely physical lifestyle, and a complication associated with the pills she was taking to control her poison. She'd had to change brands when she moved down to the States for college. People expected Ramsay to take some time off from the team. Instead, she showed up to her next team practice and doubled down on her intensity. Beside her redoubled efforts, there was one other change that was impossible to ignore. The frog had started wearing compression sleeves and tights, covering most of her skin, and was now using a topical cream on her remaining exposed skin to suppress her toxins. Despite multiple medical tests since then revealing that she doesn't share the same heart condition as her sister, she has refused to use the much cheaper and more convenient antitoxin pills ever since. The frog always wears long sleeves and tights to cover as much skin as possible, and applies expensive antitoxin cream every day.
Ramsay was aggressive in her devotion to basketball. She spent all of her time practicing and training. Teammates noted that she was difficult to read - she was demanding during practices, and frighteningly intense during games. As soon as a game was done, though, she was always the first to celebrate, often running her voice harsh with cheering and hyping up her teammates.
Over the course of her high school career, Ramsay broke every high school basketball record in Winnipeg, all of which her sister had set only a few years earlier. When it came time for Ramsay to attend college, there were hopes that she would remain in Canada so that her hometown could keep cheering her on in their country. Ultimately, Ramsay chose to go to school in the States, given the competitiveness of FCAA basketball. When she left town, she made a point of telling anybody who would listen that she was going off to make her legend, so that nobody would ever forget the Carter sisters.
She quickly became a crowd favourite at Atwood College, using her brash attitude and cockiness to work the crowd up. It wasn't just her home crowd that she mugged to - opposing teams' fans loved to hate her. Ramsay's carrying that attitude and her lofty goals into the league. After announcing that she was declaring for the draft, she gave an interview on a Winnipeg sports podcast. It was a lengthy discussion about the project of basketball in Winnipeg, the legacy of the Voyageurs, and the history of street ball in the city. The quote that got picked up and circulated, though, was in Ramsay's typically brash style. "Yeah, the Voyageurs brought Winnipeg a championship last year. Good for them. The next one, though? I'll be bringing you that one, and that one's for Meg."