Perspectives Athletics, Volume 3, Issue 2

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INSIDE

PERSPECTIVES

a seasonal review of the Perspectives Charter Schools Sports Program

CHICAGO | VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2, MARCH 2013 | @PCS_AHLEICS

Warriors Basketball His-

toric Season.

Awards for Coaches and

Athletic Director.Girls Basketball Rebound

in Grand Style .

e Perspectives

Leadership Acad-emy/High Schoolof Technology boysbasketball team pro-duced a season thatwas as improbable asit was historic.

e Warriorsentered the Class 3Astate tournament asthe No. 6 seed in the22-team St. Laurencesectional. ey werein just their fthseason of varsity bas-ketball and had neverwon even a regional

title.

PLA/Tech checkedthat o its list bydefeating Lindblom62-32 on Feb. 27 andNo. 3 seed Brookswhich had won the2011 Chicago PublicLeague champion-ship61-49 two dayslater for the regionalcrown.

In the sectionalseminals March 7,the Warriors upsetNo. 2 seed Harlan60-58 on Terrence

Sardins last-second

shot. at put themin the Sweet 16 titlegame against top-seeded Morgan Park,a powerhouse loadedwith college basket-ball prospects.

Morgan Park won67-31 and breezedto easy victories inits next three gamesto capture the 3Astate title, but PLA/Tech had plenty to beproud of. It nishedwith a 16-12 record,including a 3-6 mark

in the powerhouse

Public League RedSouth conference,and won the rstregional champion-ship in school historyin any sport.

e team reallyshowed a lot of gritand perseveredthrough a lot thisseason, second-yearhead coach JevonMamon said. Westarted out 5-2 anddidnt play that wellduring the confer-ence schedule, but we

nished the season

winning ve straightgames before losingto Morgan Park.

In the Harlan game,PCS rallied from a17-point third-quarterdecit behind guard.

Derrick Green, whoscored 15 of his 19points in the secondhalf

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n Perspec-tives Char-

ter Schoolssports, the fo-cus is on theathletes, buttwo coachesand an ad-ministra-

tor recentlygrabbed a bitof the spot-light.

PCS headfootball coacherry Joneswas a nalistfor the Posi-tive Coach-ing Alliances2013 Double-Goal Coach

Award. Per-spectivesLeadershipAcademy/High School

of Technolo-gy head boysbasketballcoach JevonMamon wasselected asthe Illinois

BasketballCoaches As-sociationhigh schoolboys District3 Co-Coach ofthe Year, andPCS athletic

director Vi-nay Mullickwas namedthe Illinois

Athletic DirectorsAssociation AthleticDirector of the Yearfor Division I, whichcovers Chicago.

e Double-GoalCoach programrecognizes youth andhigh school coachesfrom throughout theUnited States whoembody the idealsof the Double-GoalCoach, striving to winwhile also teachingpositive life lessonsthrough sports.

Coach Jones is agreat role model forour young men, andhis winning thisaward is truly rep-

resentative of all hedoes for his athleteson and o the eld,Mullick said. He is agreat ambassador forPerspectives Char-ter Schools and our

Cheerleading con-tinues to grow anddevelop at Perspec-tives Charter Schools.e coop high schoolteam representingPerspectives MSA/Joslin cheered at itsschools basketballgames, including thePCS Showcase.

e girls wereable to pick up manyof the cheers withlittle practice and ashort amount of time

football program.

Jones leadershipand discipline helpedthe Warriorsa coopteam made up ofstudents from all fourPCS high schoolsnish with a 7-3overall record andqualify for the stateplayos for the rsttime in the ve-yearhistory of the varsityfootball program.Perspectives alsowon the ChicagoPublic League WindyCity Conference titlewith a 7-0 record.

It is a tremendoushonor to coach a spir-ited group of young

men in the AuburnGresham neighbor-hood, Jones said. Weenjoyed a successfulseason because our

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before the rst game,said Joshua DeFilippo,who coached theteam along with Ash-ley Perisee and BethCagney. e teamperformed very wellfor its rst game.

Top contributorsincluded seniors

Jhamilah Levy andDymond Taylor,freshmen Kenesha

Williams and

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Coach Terry Jones recognized by the PositiveCoaching Alliance.

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Other season

highlights includeda victory over SetonAcademy, the War-riors rst triumphover a ranked team.ey also competedin a tournament inPhoenix, where theywere 2-2 and tookcollege visits to Ari-zona State Universityand Grand Canyon

University.

Mamons top playerswere senior captainsGreen and Sardinand senior BrandonTaylor. All three aver-aged at least 11 points

a game, and Sardin, a

6-foot-8-inch center,had two triple-dou-bles.

Sardin provided an-other highlight whenhe became the rstPLA/Tech student-athlete to receive afull athletic scholar-ship. He will studyand compete at Em-poria State Universityin Emporia, KS.

Top returnees for

next season arefreshman Antonio Al-len and junior DavidPayne, both start-ers, and sophomoreDarien Whiteside.

We look to contin-ue the progress andsuccess our program

has made while Ihave been at thehelm, Mamon said.How committed andsuccessful we areduring the o-seasonwill have a huge im-pact on our successnext season.

Mamon expects ad-ditional contributions

to come from theWarriors sophomoreteam, which was ledby sophomores Mau-rice Blue and DionteHarbin and fresh-man Charles Hurt.

e season highlightfor coach MahmoudAbdelfattahs 4-17team was its RedSouth victory over

Hawkins. I have seen

improvement fromeach player through-out the year, Abdel-fattah said.

PLA/Techs fresh-man team nished1-23. Coach Will

Wrights top contrib-

utors included KhalilRyals, Dandre ONeal,Quentin Whitesideand Xavier Norals.e players workedhard and boughtinto the system asthe year went along,

Wright said. eyhad a great love forthe game and en-

joyed learning more.

Barry emkinauthorsPerspectivesAthleticsnewsletter(unless otherwisenoted) and vol-unteers with thePerspectives athleticsdepartment.

He retired from theChicago Tribune in2008.

He spent his last 20years at the Tribunewriting a high schoolsports column thatcovered hundredsof schools, includingPerspectives.

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Te team showeda lot of grit.

he Perspectives MSA/Joslin boysbasketball team finished a strong sea-son with a 13-11 record, 7-2 in the Chi-cago Public League Blue West Confer-ence. Top performers included seniorJarred Elliott and juniors Tyre Dukesand Juvon Turner.

The Wolves second-place Blue West

finish will boost it into the more com-petitive White West next season, whenDukes, Turner and junior Josh Sanderswill lead the way.

With promising7th-graders pointguard Jackie Craw-ford and shootingguard Emmanuel

Gipson back nextseason, head coachTristan Roche is opti-mistic about contin-ued success.

We need to add alittle more size, butwe hope to be ableto defend our areachampionship nextyear, he said.

Rick Danilkowiczhad an outstanding

debut as head coachof the Perspectives/IITMath & Science Acad-emy middle school

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e PerspectivesMiddle Academyboys basketball teamhad a season to re-member. It was 17-4

overall and 11-0 in theRock Island League,winning the confer-ence title for the rsttime and advancingto the CPS Final Four.

Leading the waywere point guardKywaun Sterling andcenter Shomari Tillett,both 8th graders.Other contributorsincluded small for-ward Brandon McK-

night, shooting guardMartell Irvin, powerforward CorleoneLewis and small for-ward Alston Phillips,all 8th-graders.


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athletes are smartand competitive.

Mamon led theWarriorsin justtheir fth season ofvarsity basketballtothe top season anyPCS athletic team hasproduced. ey upsetthree higher-seeded

teams to win theirrst-ever regionalbasketball title andreach the Class 3Astate tournamentsectional champion-ship round, or Sweet16, before losing toeventual state champMorgan Park.

He was recentlyrecognized at theIBCA Hall of Fame

Banquet at IllinoisState University.

I coach becauseI love the game ofbasketball and theopportunities itcan provide for ourstudent-athletes, saidMamon, who hascoached the Warriorsfor two seasons. Itsa teaching platform

to mold our youngscholars into strongmen through les-sons that stretch farbeyond the basketballcourt and that they

can use as a resourcefor the rest of theirlives.

We are proud ofCoach Mamon for hisaccomplishmentsthis year and for be-ing recognized by theIBCA as a Co-Coach ofthe Year, Mullick said.

In his six years asathletic director, Mul-

lick has guided PCSsports through a pe-riod of great changeas Perspectives hasadded schools andsports teams. In ad-dition to the historicsuccess it has en-

joyed in high schoolfootball and basket-ball this school year,PCS has achievedgreat success in boys

indoor track and inmiddle-school sports.

He also has main-tained a focus oncharacter develop-ment among his ath-letes and on programdevelopment, whichincludes the recentintroduction of aPerspectives athleticdepartment Twitteraccount.

Vinay workstirelessly day-inand day-out to givestudent-athletes atPerspectives the op-

portunity to maturethrough sport, saidRhonda Hopps,Perspectives chiefexecutive ocer.We are proud of hisaccomplishmentson behalf of ourstudents, coachesand the Perspectivescommunity.

Mullick has beenon the IADA execu-

tive board for aboutthree years, servingmainly as a liaisonbetween the associa-tion and the ChicagoPublic League. Healso has served asa resource for newcharter school ath-letic directors.

Its always niceto be recognized by

your peers, Mullicksaid of his award,which he will receiveat the IADA stateconference May 4 inPeoria. I appreciateall the hard workof our coaches andstudent-athletes andthe support of ourparents and admin-istrators over theyears.

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Te Perspectives LeadershipAcademy/Perspectives HighSchool of echnology girlsbasketball teamproduced astunning turnaround this season,rebounding from a 3-18 record a yearago to a 14-9 mark this winter. atincluded an outstanding 7-1 nish inthe Chicago Public Schools Metro South

conference.

Coach Stefan Fisher praised thecontinuing development of juniorstandout Tatianna Green as well as thecontributions of senior Diamond Nobleand freshman Ariel Bell.

e Warriors freshman-sophomoreteam won a tournament championshipon the way to a 12-3 record, 7-1 in theMetro South. Top contributors includedsophomores Crystal Lackey and Daniya

Bell and freshman Kierra Willis.

Head coach Sarah Prill vowed to buildon what we have started and continueto make a program where students areable to grow and succeed on and o thecourt.

e Perspectives MSA/Joslin girlsvarsity team nished with a 6-16record. Head coach ChristopherWilliams praised his players improvedwork ethic and the play of junior

Antonique Brown.

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Keairra Bell, juniorDestiny Johnson and

sophomores MariahVinson and MoneaHopkins.

We had a great2012-13 season andlook forward to anever better season in

2013-14, Perisee said.

Senior Ariel Law-rence led the way

for the Perspec-tives LeadershipAcademy/Perspec-tives High School ofTechnology team,which participatedin Chicago PublicSchools competition

under coach GabrielleHunter.

Mikeria Collins, an

8th-grader, was thetop performer forHunters PerspectivesMiddle Academyteam.

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e PerspectivesMiddle Academygirls basketballteam nished itsseason strongly,winning its lastthree Rock IslandLeague games tonish 4-3 in theleague and 6-4overall.

Leading the waywere 8th-graders

Tabatha Daniels,Tiye Jackson andRicharda Johnson.

Once we had theleadership from

some 8th-graders,our season com-pletely turnedaround, head coachPatrick Duey saidof his rst yearwith the team.

With 7th-gradersAngel Dixon andDiamond Jonesreturning, Dueyis optimistic aboutnext season.

We want tomake sure thatgirls demonstrateADL on and o thecourt from Day 1,

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he said.e Perspectives/

IIT Math & ScienceAcademy middleschool girls teamnished 5-3 overalland 5-1 in the Chi-cago Unity Basket-ball League.

I had a wonder-ful group of girlsand really enjoyed

coaching them,said head coachWilliam Yadron, inhis rst year withthe team.

Top contributorsincluded 8th-grad-ers Felicia Bu-chanon, DulcibellaLarbi, PreciousMiddleton and Ni-kia Smith and 7th-graders LavannahGiles and JourneeLockridge.

Lockridge, acenter with strongrebounding and

shot-blocking skills,and Giles, a pointguard who led theteam in scoringand played strongdefense, should

make the teamtough to defeat nextseason.

e Joslin middleschool girls teamnished 1-8 underco-head coachesKelly Plante andMary Hilker. Topcontributors in-cluded 8th-gradersDestiny Garner andDAvion Lewis and

7th-grader AndriaEllis.

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boys team. MSA wonthe regular seasonand postseasonchampionships ofthe Chicago UnityBasketball League,going 11-2 overall andnishing undefeatedin league play.

Eighth-graders De-Andre Lightfoot andStephon Jones led theway, but Danilkowiczdescribed his teamsachievements as anoverall team eort allyear.

Head coach TirayJackson entered theseason not know-ing what to expectfrom an inexperi-enced PerspectivesJoslin middle schoolteam, but his play-ers reached theCUBL championshipgame for the secondconsecutive season,

losing to MSA to n-ish the season 10-4overall. Eighth-grad-er Elijah Moore and7th-grader RaKwonRoberts led the way.

One goal, Jacksonsaid, was to instill what it is to be astudent-athlete and

the expectations andweight that theycarry with that title.

We ended up achiev-ing that and muchmore. It feels good toaccomplish thingswith a group thatcompensated fornatural talent withhard work and eort.ey brought it gamein and game out.

Roberts and 7th-grader Jalen Mileswill be key returneesnext season.


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director VinayMullick said. Itsa great show-case for our

athletic depart-ment, a greatday for ourstudent-athletesand coaches todemonstrated ADisciplined Lifeon and o thecourt.

Mullick startedthe showcasein 2009 witha handful of

middle-schoolteams. e eventgrew biggereach year as

PCS added highschool boys andgirls basketballprograms.

On Feb. 2, thefth annualShowcase fea-tured 11 gamesfrom 9 a.m. to5 p.m. e Per-spectives teamsplayed eachother before

the Showcasebegan, but itwas in scatteredgames during

the week.

en wethought it wouldbe great to haveall the games inone day, Mul-lick said. It helpsbuild schoolspirit. It buildshealthy rivalriesbetween pro-grams.

basketballteams gatherat Auburn

Greshamcampus tocelebratecamaraderieand competi-tion.

Its a great

traditionweve started, PCS atheltic

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