{"id":15025,"date":"2025-07-17T00:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T00:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/15025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T00:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T00:11:14","slug":"gonzaga-wing-steele-venters-brings-new-perspective-coming-off-season-ending-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/15025\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonzaga wing Steele Venters brings new perspective coming off season-ending injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_223ul5fa6\">If there&#8217;s anything <a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_13kun3t\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/gonzaga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gonzaga<\/a> wing Steele Venters has learned over the past two years, it&#8217;s patience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ykbmpebd7\">After missing the 2023-24 campaign with an ACL injury, only to then sustain a torn Achilles that sidelined him for the entirety of the 2024-25 season, the 6-foot-7 sharpshooter is more than ready to make his long-awaited debut in a Bulldogs uniform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_zeiwusoxb\">Venters, who transferred from Eastern Washington in 2023, has started to go through practice with the Zags nearly 10 months after undergoing surgery to repair his Achilles. He&#8217;s still awaiting full clearance for full 5-on-5 scrimmages and such, though the Ellensburg, Washington, native is still appreciative of being on the court again and not stuck on the team&#8217;s bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_egeimc6pl\">&#8220;I think the biggest thing I&#8217;ve learned is just being patient,&#8221; Venters said. &#8220;Not everything&#8217;s gonna happen on your timeline. You kind of just have to trust the process and everything will take care of itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_3hty1bajv\">Venters shared more about his recovery process, his new day-to-day practice regimen and his mental approach to the game heading into the 2025-26 campaign in an interview with Gonzaga Bulldogs on SI.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH THE FULL VIDEO HERE:MORE GONZAGA NEWS &amp; ANALYSIS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there&#8217;s anything Gonzaga wing Steele Venters has learned over the past two years, it&#8217;s patience. After missing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-15025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}