AAU Basketball

AAU basketball was a great experience for me growing up. My first AAU team was a team out of Van Wert. My friends Nicolle, Maddie, and I would carpool down to Van Wert every Sunday to practice and we would have tournaments on the weekends. This was a great experience for me because my entire team got along and it was more about having fun than winning. Then my freshman year I joined the Northwest Ohio Hoopstars because the Van Wert team was no longer a team. This team was a lot different because there were a ton of girls on the team so you would play with someone different each weekend. My junior year I then switched over to Toledo Elite. This was also a fun group of girls that I played with and our team was very talented. We were invited to play at D.C. This was a great experience for our team. Another memorable experience from Toledo Elite was when we saw Geno Auriemma who is UConns women basketball head coach. Playing for Toledo Elite brought us in contact with many college basketball coaches, but I chose to pursue tennis in college.