Because We Want To Help Players That Want To Get Better

Meet Jessica Stice

Jessica is a sophomore at Rockridge and member of our Corn Belt Cagers club basketball team.  She wasn't on our initial list of potential players.  I had asked the varsity boys coaches of Rockridge and Sherrard to give me a list of players that might be interested in playing some basketball if they weren't participating in a spring sport.  (We really do encourage students to be multi-sport athletes, and we don't want to distract from school sport opportunities.)

So we started out our spring club season without Jessica.

Then she asked.  She asked if she could join the Cagers workouts.  I informed her that if she wanted to join us, she needed to know she wasn't going to get any special treatment from the coaches or the players.  She needed to know that we would coach her just like anyone else.

I didn't ask her why she asked.  I didn't ask her if she knew what she was getting herself into.  I didn't ask her if she thought she could handle it.  In my eyes, and in the eyes of our other coaches and our players, she meets all the criteria we are looking for - she's a basketball player that loves the game, wants to work hard, will attend our workouts and game days, and wants to improve her skills and her confidence.

So this isn't a human interest story.  You can make your own conclusions about Jessica.  For me it's just a blog post about a basketball player on our team.  If you'd like learn more about this player or other players in our group, check out our website.

2017 Corn Belt Cagers