Strick Hoops

Thank you AB and Weave👏

We filmed last practice of the season…first time I’ve mic’d up players🫣 Without even thinking about it, the cool thing is it caught us celebrating both of our Seniors from our 17U girls team this year🥳

The practice before this one, we gave Addie Weaver her flowers, since she couldn’t make the last practice because she was in the WPIAL Championships. We have all types of players in our program, who have taken different paths to play for us. Addie is a scholarship level athlete, committed to Slippery Rock University to throw javelin, but didn’t play 🏀 for her HS. While focused on her Javelin, she still wanted to keep playing 🏀 and have fun, and she could do that with our 🖤💛 You can hear us celebrating her 2nd place finish at the WPIALs and then she went on to finish 3rd in the state🙌

Since it was the last practice for Senior Annabeth Grayson, we did get a chance to give her the flowers she deserved💐 AB is a throwback Senior. In today’s world of instant gratification, most players don’t stick it out anymore to have a shot at playing in their senior year. She did just that, and coming off a very successful spring AAU season, she started off HS summer league strong😤 But life was going to test her once more as she tore her ACL playing in an outdoor league. She could have quit and called it a career. Instead she decided to come back stronger than ever and have her best AAU season, which even led to some colleges to offer her a chance to play 🏀 for them! Her strength and perseverance is not only going to help her in her next step at Robert Morris University, but beyond in real life💯

Both Weave and AB exemplify what our program is all about! Both made our program better, on and off the court, because they were part of it. Their HS 🏀 careers took a different path than expected, but both got to play 🏀 at a high level and with great teammates🖤💛

Your loves and appreciates you guys, and we will ALWAYS be huge fans of you on your journey of life🖤💛