A look back at basketball with Jacob Ognacevic
Men’s basketball senior forward Jacob Ognacevic closed out his four-year career at Lipscomb University with an ASUN Championship ring and an offer from a Big Ten school. Both of these were the result of much hard work on the 6’8″ forward’s behalf.
Ognacevic will start his next season of play as a University of Washington Husky. The team is currently in the middle of their summer training. Ognacevic will be keeping his number 41 as he starts playing for the Huskies.
Herd Media’s Micah Barkley sat down with Ognacevic several times throughout the 2024-25 season as part of a series – pre-season, mid-season and post-season. (Click the links to read any of the articles.) After the NCAA Tournament, Barkley and Ognacevic sat down with a video camera. Watch this video to hear from both Ognacevic and others about his journey as a basketball player, what’s shaped him and how he’s shaped the team.
Interview footage taken by Micah Barkley. College game footage taken by Micah Barkley and Forrest Maners. High school game footage courtesy of Jacob Ognacevic.
Micah Barkley
Micah Barkley serves as Herd Media's editor-in-chief and chief sports photographer. She is a senior Journalism major with a minor in German and a passion for photography. This is her fourth year on Herd Media’s staff, having started as an assistant editor, then becoming the features editor, before being promoted to editor-in-chief. Outside of writing and learning languages, she enjoys riding horses, music, basketball, swing dancing and line dancing, and spending time with her friends, among other things. She has writing experience with The Numismatist – a publication of the American Numismatic Association – and The Williamson Scene and is an aspiring author with two books currently published under the pen name Summer Ryland. When not at Lipscomb, she lives on a communal cattle ranch in the great state of Texas.
