Coach Charmin, Eliza and a bunch of players are coaching girls basketball camp today. Shannon, Carly, Gisella, Naya, Mjracle, and Taylor are all here! And alums Leilani, Tierra and Kayla are coaching too.

The camp was sold out I think like about 100 girls maybe?

Tiera Rodger's?

ethan0l said:

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Coach Charmin, Eliza and a bunch of players are coaching girls basketball camp today. Shannon, Carly, Gisella, Naya, Mjracle, and Taylor are all here! And alums Leilani, Tierra and Kayla are coaching too.

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Yes!

IIRC Tierra was diagnosed with a heart problem which ended her playing career before her first college game. Props to Cal for keeping her on the team through graduation.

stu said:

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IIRC Tierra was diagnosed with a heart problem which ended her playing career before her first college game. Props to Cal for keeping her on the team through graduation.

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Tierra Rogers is such an inspiration. She collapsed during a practice at Cal and was revived by a trainer. She was then diagnosed with a heart condition that ended her career, but Coach Boyle kept her on the team for all four years. She also lost her father, her biggest fan, to gun violence shortly before she came to Cal. Here's a good NY Times piece on her journey. (gift link)

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But Rogers doesn't have the luxury of "if" scenarios. Her father, Terray, has been gone for nearly a decade, shot at killed at halftime of one of Tierra's games at Sacred Heart Cathedral in January 2008. And her promising basketball career disintegrated into dust when she collapsed in the arms of the Cal athletic trainer during a practice in 2009, a serious heart condition pulling the plug on the one thing that was keeping her afloat after her father's murder.

The one-two punch nearly killed her. First, the heart condition and then the depression and despair that followed, which led her to withdraw from family, friends and teammates and to contemplate suicide.
The story that the 26-year-old Rogers has to tell in her memoir, "Life In Overtime," is tragic and heartbreaking and inspiring, in large part because here Rogers stands, on the other side of it all.

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Happy to see her still connected to Cal

HoopDreams said:

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Happy to see her still connected to Cal

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Indeed!

Tierra joined her fellow alums on the court (and was introduced) at halftime of the Stanford game at the end of January. It was Alumni Day.