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Portland High School Hoopers unite for 12th
Annual Joyce Washington Memorial Game
Alumni from past Joyce Washington Classic games include Shoni
Schimmel, now at Louisville (left) and Terrance Jones at Kentucky.
The 12th Annual Joyce W ashington M emorial Bas
ketball Game is set to tip off this Saturday, May 5 with the
Girls game at 2 p.m. follow ed by the Boys game at 4 p.m.
Team rosters are filled with players from prim arily north
and northeast Portland for a game that honors Joyce and
Cory W ashington and assists in raising funds for schol
arships in their names.
Joyce W ashington M emorial Game Alumni include
NCAA basketball standouts Terrance Jones ( Kentucky),
Mike Moser ( UNLV), Terrance Ross ( W ashington), Juanita
Badon (Utah), Krystal Forthan (LSU), Jude Schimmel
(Louisville), and Shoni Schimmel (Louisville).
This years’ game has 15 Oregon high schools repre
sented by seniors and underclassm an. Bryce W hite
( Benson) headlines a boys roster that includes 9 All-City
team players along with Mt. Hood Conference 1st team
All-Leaguer, Jerem iah Harris (David Douglas) and Bryan
Archie (Roosevelt) 2011 Co-Player of the Year. The girls’
2012 GIRLS ROSTERS
TEAMNAVY
Cha’Quinn Cook: Benson 2015 (1 st Team All-City)
Amantha Hood: Central Catholic 2013 (1st Team MHC)
Martina McCowan: SMA 2015
Esichang McGautha: Catlin Gabel 2012 (1 st Team Lewis & Clark)
Jaime Nared: Westview 2014 (Metro League POTY)
Caylee Newsome Grant 2013
Mercedes Russell: Springfield 2013 (5 A State POTY)
Zoie Sheng: SMA 2012 (6A 1 st Team All-State Tournament)
Sha’ Nice Storey: SMA 2012 (1 st Team MHC)
Eleanor Van Buren: Riverdale 2014 (3 A 3rd Team All-State)
TEAM WHITE
Tyschal Blake: SMA 2015
Audrey Frison: Parkrose 2014 (3rd Team NW Oregon)
Jean Le: Madison 2012 (1 st Team All-City)
Mariah Morton: Catlin Gabel 2012 (1 st Team Lewis & Clark)
Jordyn Reynolds: Central Catholic 2013 (6A State POTY)
Emily Rommel: Cleveland 2014 (All-City POTY)
Taelor Ross: SMA 2012 (1 st Team MHC)
Abby Scott: Madras 2012 (1 st Team Tri-Valley)
Nae Torregano: SMA 2013 (2nd Team MHC)
Milan Woods: Grant 2014
game brings two o f the nations top prep players together
with 6A and 5 A Oregon State Player of the Year, Jordyn
R eynolds (C entral C atholic) and M ercedes Russell
(Springfield) squaring off.
Games are played at Self Enhancem ent, Inc., 3920 N.
Kerby Ave., Portland. Tickets prices are $3 for adults and
$2 for students. Children 9 years old and younger are free.
Tickets can be purchased at the door on game day.
2012 BOYS ROSTERS
TEAMBLACK
Jamarte Brown: Jefferson 2013
Juwan Feliciano: Roosevelt 2012
Theo Friedman: Grant 2013 (Honorable Mention All-City)
Austin May: Cleveland 2012 ( 1 st Team All-City)
Antonio McCowan: Roosevelt 2012 (2nd Team All-City)
Kendall Thompson: Benson 2012 (Honorable Mention All-City)
J D Warren : Grant 2012
Bryce White: Benson 2012 (All-City POTY)
TEAM WHITE
Bryan Archie: Roosevelt 2012 (2011 Co-POTY Greater Oregon)
Alex Arnold: Parkrose 2013
Jordan Ewell: Benson 2013 (Honorable Mention All-City)
Jeremiah Harris: David Douglas 2012 ( 1 st Team MHC)
Joe Morales: Roosevelt 2012 (2nd Team All-City)
Alex Sattley: Lincoln 2012 (2nd Team All-City)
Chris Wells: Grant 2012 (2nd Team All-City)
About the Portland Observer.
In 1989, Joyce Washington purchased the Portland Observer, a northeast Portland weekly newspaper. The paper’s corporate name, Cory Publishing,
commemorates Cory Washington's contributions to the paper. Cory (right) was one of the first, most involved staff members of the paper. He was
shot to death following a basketball-game dispute in Peninsula Park in 1991. Joyce Washington studied sociology at Portland Community College and
Portland State University. She passed in March of 1996 but her legacy lives on through the newspaper. Her sons, Mark and Charles Washington oversee
the daily operations and editing of the paper and are heavily involved in supporting the youth of Portland, as their mother always had.