True Hooper
by David Allen Hoover
(Conover, NC, USA)
under control
I started playing the game of basketball when I was in the 6th grade. I started with the recreation league and was not that good at all. Tried out for the middle school team in 7th grade, didn't make it so i became the manager of the team just so i could practice and learn and be around the game that i was beginning to love.
My 8th grade year i was a starter on the team as the point guard. When i got to high school i shared the point guard spot wit an upper class man on j.v. My 10th grade year i became the starting point guard on varsity averaging about 8 points 6 assists a game. My junior year still starting point guard i averaged 12.5 points and 8.5 assists a game, i was the captain and leader of the team and i handled the position pretty well if i say so myself. Even though our record was not good for my 1st 3 years my game kept improving everyday.
My senior year still starting point guard 14 points and 9.5 assists a game, i lead my team to the conference championship, regular season championship, and Christmas tournament championship and won all 3 of them. I was named all conference 1st team, all unifour 1st team, Christmas tournament 1st team, MVP of my team, MVP of the Christmas tournament, and runner up to player of the year.
Then i lead my team to the sectional conference championship, 2 games away from states and lost in triple overtime. The whole time i was playing high school ball my coach told me to just concentrate on the team and my school work and that he would take care of scouts and getting me into college, so that is what i did and at the of my senior year i still did not have a school that was looking at me for basketball.
So i ended up going to a community college and playing for CVCC for a year. Then financial problems hit me and i could not go to school anymore, and every since then i have just been trying to get back to the game I love and know. I'm looking for an opportunity for a coach or scout to see me play and I feel like the rest will fall into play for me.
