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November 12, 2003
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Jefferson
Basketball
Star Chooses
Minnesota
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PERFECT SEASON CAPPED WITH CHAMPIONSHIP
All-American Brittney
Davis announces
college plans
Trevor Brown (above) lifts a Police Activity League
Youth Football championship trophy over his head
in victory after Sunday's championship game
capped a perfect 11-1 season for the Whitaker
7th and 8th grade squad from northeast Portland.
Jefferson High School basketball star Brittney
Davis will continue her athletic and academic
career at the University o f Minnesota.
Jefferson High School girls’ basketball star
Brittney Davis has selected the University of
M innesota to continue her academic and athletic
career.
Although Davis was recruited by major univer
sities across the nation and considered the Uni
versity o f Southern California, the University of
California at Berkeley and the University o f Las
Vegas, her decision came down to support from
other athletes.
Davis said, "1 chose to attend the University of
Minnesota because of the support of the coaching
staff and the players on the team. I really got along
with them all.”
A ccording to Jefferson A thletic D irector
Marshall Haskins, Davis has achieved both aca
demic and athletic honors qualifying her for the
NCAA scholarship.
Davis has a 3.7 grade point average in her
college level classes, is a two-time P1L Player of the
Year, a three time All League player, averages 20
points per game and by the time she completes this
year's basketball season, she will be a four-year
letter winner.
Among her many honors, Davis is a McDonald
All American nominee. Additionally, she was se
lected to participate in the Adidas Top Ten All
American Camp.
Whitaker youth football
teammates Roswan Miller
(from left) and Kalongi
Paschal and other team
mates celebrate a PAL
football championship
Sunday after the Warriors
beat Franklin, 60-18 at
Lincoln High School
Sunday attended by 400
fans.
M ark W ashington /
T he P ortland O bserver
photo by
State 4A
Football Tourney
PIZZA
A G O GO
Friday Games
We Deliver!
Tigard at Wilson, 7 p.m.
Jesuit vs. Grant (at Lincoln), 7:30 p.m.
Corvallis at Beaverton, 7:30 p.m.
Disabled Athlete
Excels at Sport
DARE Rejects
Blazers Donation
From a country where the majority of
disabled people are concealed or aban
doned by ashamed family members, one
disabled Ghana man was driven to ride
his bicycle across his country, inspiring
some 2 million fellow disabled Ghanans.
Emmanuel Ofoso Yeboah, 26, was
awarded Nike’s Casey Martin Award
for completing the 610-kilometer ride
with a short femur and dislocated right
knee, preventing him from standing.
The award was named for pro golfer
Disabled cyclist Emmanuel
Casey Martin, who has a rare, incur
Ofoso Yeboah has over
able, degenerative condition causing
come many challenges to
chronic leg pain.
DARE, the anti-drug program,
has severed its partnership with
the Portland Trail Blazers.
T he B lazers have donated
gam e tickets to the program but
DARE officials say they w on’t
accept them until Blazers play
ers act like role m odels and
stop getting busted for bad b e
havior.
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