Larry Hughes Basketball Academy

Last week and this week I was supposed to shadow Chelsey Freymuth, the Site Administrator and the Member Specialist, at Larry Hughes Basketball Academy. With her, I would’ve been doing: daily customer service phone calls, executing marketing plans and strategies, planning sporting events for the business, making sales to new members, learning techniques for those sales, and overall administrative duties for their sports company. Sadly, due to these circumstances, we couldn’t make this opportunity happen. I was the most excited for this site because I am close with Chelsey and I am a big supporter of the company’s mission. 

As some of you know, Coach Chelsey worked at Fulton as an Assistant Basketball Coach our sophomore year. During junior year’s basketball season, I sought to better my skills on the court; to do that, I had to put in time, energy, and sweat off the court. At the time, Larry Hughes Skills and Drills sessions happened at a variety of schools like CBC and SLUH because their new facility wasn’t built yet- that’s a lot of driving. I started going once a week; once a week turned into twice a week… and it paid off, other teams started to notice that I was becoming a “threat.” After the Fulton basketball season was over, I tried out for Larry Hughes’s U16 team and I ended up making their U17 team- a team for older, more experienced players- which surprised me because I had never been on a team where you had to try out like people at public schools do. Each day I walked into that gym, Coach Chelsey would run over to me with a huge grin breaking out on her face and encapsulate me in a hug. 

So, what have I been doing? I upcycled this year’s Basketball Team hoodie by cropping it, cutting off the elastic band below the hoodie pocket, and sewing the band to the bottom of the cropped hoodie for a clean, finished look. I applied to St. Louis Community College to take a free, online summer course in Spanish that would have transferred perfectly to Arizona State University, the college I will be attending next year- however, it would be cheaper for me to look at classes at St. Charles Community College. I still recommend you guys taking a look into it if you live in St. Louis County, it might be something to keep your mind sharp over the summer and give you a little taste of what college may be like (https://www.stlcc.edu/admissions/take-one-on-us.aspx).

Lastly, I just recently applied to Lion’s Choice and had my first ever job interview- it was very scary because I have never had to have a job interview because my previous employers already knew who I was. It was like a conversation and at the end of it, I was offered a position! As requested by my parents, I will not start work until COVID-19 has simmered down. So, this week I have another upcycling project where I will be turning American Eagle black skinny jeans- that I was going to donate but they’re not accepting donations at this time– into mom jeans by adding the adidas stripes from an old pair of leggings to the sides of the jeans… Wish me luck!