BY BEA CHANG | DIRECTOR OF EVERYTHING AWESOME The year 2020 is... oh, it is so many things. It upended all aspects of our lives, changed the way we perceive and do, well, everything. To play basketball, any basketball, now, with or without fans, feels like a long-ago luxury. The NCAA was cancelled: Mady Burdett,… Continue reading Checking in on our Junior Counselors & Happy Holidays!
BY ROWAN SCHABERG | TABLA Camper-Intern Mady Burdett is a senior at Whitman College and joined us as a Junior Counselor (JC) at Team Awesome Basketball Leadership Academy (TABLA) for our first year. During her senior year at Whitman, Mady joined Whitman's 1,000-point club, led the Northwest League in three-point shooting percentage, and was named… Continue reading TABLA JC Senior Interview: Mady Burdett!
BY ROWAN SCHABERG | TABLA Camper-Intern Imari Clinton is a senior at Hope International University and joined us as a Junior Counselor (JC) at Team Awesome Basketball Leadership Academy (TABLA) for the past 2 years. Imari graduated from Henry M. Jackson High School in 2016 and played her freshman and sophomore seasons at Pacific Union… Continue reading TABLA JC Senior Interview: Imari Clinton!
BY ROWAN SCHABERG | TABLA Camper-Intern Charli Elliott graduated from Pacific University in 2019. She joined us at Team Awesome Basketball Leadership Academy (TABLA) as a Junior Counselor (JC) for the first two years. She graduated from West Seattle High School (WSHS), where she helped her team win the first Metro Championship in school history.… Continue reading TABLA JC Senior Interview: Charli Elliott!
BY ROWAN SCHABERG | TABLA Camper-Intern Mikayla Pivec is a senior at Oregon State University. She was a guest speaker and played in the exhibition game during Team Awesome Basketball Leadership Academy (TABLA)'s first year and joined us as a Junior Counselor last summer! At Oregon State (OSU), Mikayla has racked up many accomplishments, including… Continue reading TABLA JC Senior Interview: Mikayla Pivec!
BY ROWAN SCHABERG | TABLA Camper-Intern Makana Stone is a senior at Whitman College and has joined us at Team Awesome Basketball Leadership Academy (TABLA) as a Junior Counselor (JC) for all 3 years! This season at Whitman, she was the Conference Player of the Year and All-Region First Team. Before the end of the… Continue reading TABLA JC Senior Interview: Makana Stone!
BY ROWAN SCHABERG | TABLA Camper-Intern Lindsey Cleary is a senior at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) who joined us as a Team Awesome Basketball Leadership Academy (TABLA) Junior Counselor (JC) for the inaugural year in 2017. Lindsey graduated from Holy Names Academy and is now majoring in Computer Science at CMC. During her basketball career… Continue reading TABLA JC Senior Interview: Lindsey Cleary!
November 20, 2019 | We are officially a week away from winter season tip-off! For the fifth straight year, high school girls and women's team came together to celebrate girls and women's basketball in the Puget Sound. One year older, one year wiser (and for some of us, one year slower), we continue to bring… Continue reading 5th Annual Awesome 3-on-3 Jam: Recap & Photos!
BY TAYLOR FAHEY | JUNIOR COUNSELOR We wrapped up TABLA 2019 with a "Living Awesome: Community Day". To start it off there was a college student-athlete panel where the Junior Counselors shared their experiences and answered questions. Then the 3-on-3 Tournament of Champions was in full swing and the campers gave it everything they had!… Continue reading Day Four, TABLA 2019
BY TAYLOR FAHEY | JUNIOR COUNSELOR The focus today was "Working as One" and the campers were ready to do just that. Starting off the day with Kadee Gray, the Mental Skills Coach, the campers learned how visualization can improve their game. Then they hit the court running. The campers enhanced their skills in a… Continue reading Day Three, TABLA 2019
