As part of his player enhancement program, Sinclair Pride men\u2019s coach Jeff Price said he brings in successful people to talk to his players about what comes after basketball.<\/p>\n
His guest on Nov. 4 was Colonel Bradley Spacy, the 88th Air Base Wing and Installation Commander at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Price said he met Spacy at a dinner featuring local community figures, and, while talking and getting to know each other, he found out Spacy used to play Division II basketball at Humboldt State University.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end (of the dinner), Col. Spacy said everybody in this room now is a member of our family at Wright Patt. So when I was walking out, I said, \u2018Since we\u2019re a member of your family, I would like to invite you to be a member of our family and come practice with us,\u2019 \u201d Price said.<\/p>\n
Not knowing if he took him seriously or not, Price called Spacy\u2019s protocol officer a week later. She said the colonel was very interested.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe picked a date and that\u2019s how he got here,\u201d Price said.<\/p>\n
Spacy sported a white Sinclair basketball shirt to practice and played with the team for more than an hour, participating in conditioning workouts, shooting drills and dribbling exercises. The Pride did not take it easy on the colonel, though, as they blocked his shots twice, once by forward British Alexander.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just let him act like he had a free lay-up and went up and blocked it. (Then I) went down and dunked, just to get a laugh out of it,\u201d Alexander said.<\/p>\n
After practice was over, Spacy spoke to the team and presented four challenge coins: three to the coaches and one to Alexander.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Spacy) said the significance of the (challenge) coin was that each person in the service gets one and you\u2019re supposed to have it on you at all times,\u201d Alexander said. \u201cI felt privileged, I felt like I was a part of the military when he gave me that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alexander added that practicing with the colonel was a good experience and he has kept the challenge coin in his book bag in the days subsequent to the practice.<\/p>\n
Before returning to the base, Spacy described his experience practicing with the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was fun. I try to stay in shape, but basketball shape is different,\u201d Spacy said before letting out a laugh. \u201cI think they\u2019re gonna do pretty well. They have enough big guys here, they ought to quit shooting jumpers and just dunk everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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