Youth basketball league brings rec sport to region
AURORA – When art teacher Lori Friedhoff’s son, Jared, came home from his first day assistant coaching South Dearborn’s junior varsity basketball team, he told her a story that pulled at her heart strings.“I guess they didn’t have enough players, but (the boys) were told to the face, ‘Yeah, you’re probably not going to see any playing time.’ My son said the look on the kids’ faces was something he’ll never forget … he was really bummed out,” she said.Friedhoff intended to find a recreational basketball league for the children that they could play in outside of school, but was shocked when none seemed to turn up.“I Google searched and looked and I could not find anything or anywhere that kids could get into a league that wasn’t through a school program,” she said.
