Capt. Hill follows father, uncle into Army
November 13th, 2009 | 
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It seems almost silly to say, but Caton Hill sounded … so grown up. Well, actually, she always did seem older than her age. She was the clever, sarcastic, cut-to-the-chase forward for the Oklahoma women’s basketball team when the program made its first Final Four appearance in 2002.
Wednesday, on Veterans Day, a group of journalists — some of us who’d covered her Oklahoma career — were on a conference call with Capt. Caton Hill, now an Army doctor about to be deployed to Afghanistan.
We used to ask her about zone defenses or how well the Sooners had run their offense. Now she was answering about some of the specifics she needed to know to take care of soldiers in combat.
“IEDs … there’s a way that they explode — it’s different than any sort of injury you would see stateside,” she said of improvised explosive devices. “You learn how gunshot wounds enter, and how they move. You learn the physics of them. You also need to know about traumatic brain injuries.”
Someone asked her at one point if, after everything she’d done — playing Division I basketball, joining the Army, going to medical school — there was anything that intimidated her.
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