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March 10.2004
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All-Team
Approach
Grant coach
empowers players
by J aymee R. C vti
T he P ortland O bserver
Grant High School's varsity boy’s bas
ketball coach has a lot to be proud of.
T rue, the team fell short of playing in the
Class 4A Tournament after a 48-58 defeat
to Redmond High School last week. Yet,
Coach Tony Broadous extends his pride
to his players, a 12-member team, who
have trained really hard and stayed fo
cused despite a trying year off the court.
The team 's intensity landed Grant a
standing as second in Portland Interscho
lastic League going into preliminary games
last weekend.
Broadous came to Grant last year, after
coaching at Roosevelt High School for 10
years.
An alum of Jefferson High School,
Broadous played baseball, football and
basketball, and was named Senior Athlete
of the Year in 1985. He went on to play
baseball and basketball at Lane Commu
nity College in Eugene and graduated
from Oregon State University.
“Last year was the first year in six that
Grant has been in the playoffs. W e've
made it to playoffs both times in my first
two years. I’m pretty proud of that."
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photo by
M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
Grant High School Boys Basketball Coach Tony Broadous discusses a game plan with first team All-Star players Donnie Harrison-Davis (left) and Dominic Waters.
His coaching attitude is that every man
makes up a team.
"I’m a big believer that you have 12
guys because you’re a team. Everybody is
important, from your first starter and lead
scorer to your last guy who doesn't play
that much,” he said.
Broadous added, “We give thanks to
God. We pray before each game and
thank God for having the opportunity to
play each game and God is pretty good
to us.”
Despite a solid pre-tournament record,
the team was severely challenged by inju
ries and personal crisis.
Broadous himself, broke his wrist play
ing basketball in the beginning of the
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season. Shortly after that, his sister had
brain surgery.
Junior point guard Dominic Waters had
an emergency appendectomy and another
player's mother had emergency surgery.
Combined with the death of a player’s
Grandmother, and another key player off
the bench for a broken hand, Broadous
said it was challenging to keep the empha
sis on the game.
“It’s been a season of ups and downs,
off the court,” said Broadous. “On the
court, the guys have been able to play
through different distractions, injuries and
off court issues and continue to perse
vere.”
Broadus says he talks to his team about
being the “total package.”
"We talk a lot about being a solid player,
a solid student and a solid person with
high values and high character,” he said.
The cumulative grade point average for
the team is 3.2 out of4.0 with six players on
honor roll.
In Broadous’ first year at Grant, eight of
the nine seniors went on to college and
this year, all six seniors on his team will be
in college, with four on athletic scholar
ships and one on an academic scholar
ship.
Some notable players are being heavily
recruited by colleges.
Senior Donnie Harrison-Davis and
Waters were named first team all stars.
Broadous describes Ndam ukong Suh
as a “big time w arrior.” Suh, a junior
center, is being recruited in football by
schools across the country. He was
named as second team all star this year.
Aaron Dickson, a senior, accepted a
football scholarship to Portland State.
Broadous says he demonstrates that total
package with strengths in scoring, pass
ing and picking up rebounds.
Nick Green, a 6 foot 7 inch senior
forw ard, is an exciting player to follow
for his dunks and block shots. He was
given honorable mention for the all-star
team.
Ryan Carroll, a sixth man off the bench,
is a decisive, sharp shooter.
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Baseball Coaches Clinic Saturday 2004 PIL Basketball All-Stars
Peninsula Little League and Jefferson High S chool’s main
Je ffe rso n High S chool are gym, 5 2 1 ON. Kerby. It will start at
partnering with the Active and Old- 9:30 a.m. and end at noon. Partici
Timers Baseball Association to hold pants can bring their personal
a coaching clinic aimed at reviving baseball and softball gloves and
the sport of baseball in north and bats to actively participate in
northeast Portland.
hands-on techniques and prac
The session for new and exist tice.
ing baseball coaches, sports pro
“ We need skilled and p ro fes
gram adm inistrators and parents sional coaches who can create
will be held Saturday, March 13 at a venue o f o p p o rtu n itie s for
north and n o rth e a st P ortland
youth who aspire to becom e
pro fessio n al baseball p la y e rs,”
said A rt L arrance, A ctive and
O ld-T im ers B aseball A sso c ia
tion president.
J e ffe rs o n B a se b a ll C oach
Michael M angum said the effort
also is aimed at giving local kids
a deterrent to gangs, drugs and
other non-productive activities.
Alcohol and
drug addiction
is color blind...
2004 PIL Boys
2004 PIL Girls
Player of the Year:
Player of the Year:
Brian Morris, Jefferson
Brittney Davis, Jefferson
Coaches of the Year:
Coaches of the Year:
Marshall Haskins, Jefferson and
Tony Broadous, Grant
Floyd Hall, Franklin and Milt Adams,
Jefferson
First team:
First team:
Germain Jordan-Brown, Wilson
Brian Morris, Jefferson
Dominic Waters, Grant
Andre Ferguson, Roosevelt
Donnie Harrison-Davis, Grant
Mac Hopson, Jefferson
Brittney Davis, Jefferson
Hannah Oken-Berg, Lincoln
Toya Hill, Grant
Lauren Greif, Lincoln
Brea Douglas, Benson
Ericka Volker, Grant
Simone Jordan, Jefferson
Second team:
Bryan Martin, Benson
Jeremy Lathan, Benson
Cedric Burton, Jefferson
Cody Aker, Wilson
Ndamukong Suh, Grant
Omar Leary Lincoln
gender neutral...
Second team:
Amanda Boggan, Benson
RosaundaJackson, Benson
Katie Curtis, Cleveland
Joyce Oniah, Franklin
Amanda Peterson, Franklin
Shadae Smith, Jefferson
Whitney Barton, Wilson
Heartbreak for Jefferson Girls
Jefferson High School was the
only P o rtlan d In te rsc h o la stic
League team to make it to the Class
4A Girls Basketball Tournament at
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the University o f Portland' sChiles
Center.
But it was heartbreak for the
Democrats. The team was crushed
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in a 56-64 defeat to Sheldon last
Thursday and in the Friday conso
lation game lost to Central Catholic,
63 to 69.
Disappointment
for PIL Teams
All four Portland Interscholastic
League boys basketball teams were
shut out of the 4A Tournament in
Eugene after losses in preliminary
games.
W ilson’s 53-64 loss to South
Eugene last W ednesday ended
their hopes for a place in the tour
nament.
Jefferson defeated Bend, 74-47
in the first game of the preliminary
tournament, but ultimately suc
cumbed to Sunset on Saturday in a
66-68 loss.
G rant beat C e n tra l V alley
W ednesday, 82-79, but lost to
Redmond on R edm ond's home
court on Saturday. 48-58. It was
anybody'sgam e until the last quar
ter, when Central Valley rallied to
put the game out of reach.
Benson’s tournament aspira
tions ended last Wednesday when
it lost to Lake Oswego, 39-43.