Sentences with phrase «school basketball career»

She also had the opportunity to cap her high school basketball career by sharing the team's accomplishments with her father, Jerold Ligons.

When my high - school basketball career faded and college and the military fell through, I was left with a complete lack of purpose, susceptible to addiction and depression.

«Hoop Dreams» (1994) Steve James» revolutionary documentary follows inner - city Chicago kids William Gates and Arthur Agee throughout their high - school basketball careers.

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Hence Rabbit's constant remembrance of things past: his fading stardom as a high school basketball hero in Mt. Judge, Pennsylvania; his youthful marriage to the store - clerk Janice Springer; their many sexual felicities and infidelities; the deaths that each so horribly caused in their own house; their moral enmeshment in the lives of their friends and families, especially their elderly parents and their own son Nelson; Rabbit's jobs as a typesetter and car dealer, and now Janice's belated career in real estate; their financial prosperity during the boom of the «70s when they bought vacation homes in Florida and the Poconos; now their fear of economic ruin amidst the coming Depression.

Balancing his coaching duties and audacious plan to bring the top recruiting class in the country to the little - known basketball school with the wave of uncertainty surrounding his personal life and job security, Dowkens takes his Badlanders to Las Vegas to play the eighth - ranked UNLV Runnin» Rebels on national TV in a game that seems certain to define his career.

The work ethic and competitive spirit Shelton has developed over the course of his prep basketball career, along with the way he has his hands in every statistical category, earned him the «Russell Westbrook of high school basketball» moniker for his all - around impact on the game.

«If I could have had any other career, I would be a high school basketball coach and a history teacher,» said Big Show.

Rabb is set to continue his basketball career on the same floor that his high school one ended «'' Cal's Haas Pavilion.

It flooded through him when he walked onto a basketball court — the jump shots with crumpled paper cups he took as a little boy after every high school game his dad coached, the million three - man weaves, all the sweat and the squeaks and the passion so white - hot that twice during his career he had rocketed off the bench to scream... and blacked out... and five or six times every season the backside of his suit pants had gone rrr - iii - p!

She earned a full - ride scholarship to Duke, spent her summer playing for USA Basketball in the 17U World Championships, and closed her high school career as a McDonald's All - American — just the second ever to come out of the Bay Area since the girls game began in 2002.

Chris Herren was a high school basketball legend from Fall River, Massachusetts, who scored over 2,000 career points while at Durfee High School and was named to the 1994 McDonald's All - Americanschool basketball legend from Fall River, Massachusetts, who scored over 2,000 career points while at Durfee High School and was named to the 1994 McDonald's All - AmericanSchool and was named to the 1994 McDonald's All - American team.

Played hockey and basketball in high school, continuing his hoops career in college until a career - ending back injury.

Plus, Phil Keoghan of «The Amazing Race» on the exciting re-emergence of bicycle racing in Barcelona, Milan and soon, London; James Brown reports on Morgan Wootten, the high school basketball coach who's career win tally has only been bested by one other coach at any level of the sport in history; and humorous sports commentary by Robert Wuhl.

Hoop Dreams — In this remarkable documentary, the filmmakers followed two inner - city Chicago basketball players throughout their high school careers.

He is the product of K - 12 public schools, and began his education career as a middle school social studies teacher and basketball coach at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Miamischool social studies teacher and basketball coach at John F. Kennedy Middle School in MiamiSchool in Miami, FL..

They mentioned a brand new sports facility that was under construction, called the «BBI Sports Cloud,» noting that incoming seventh - year students will be the first class to have use of these basketball and netball courts for their entire Intermediate School careers.