Powers goes All-Star

Levi Powers competes in basketball All-Star game at North Idaho College

Kelsey Van Dyke

News Editor

 

     In 2000, there was a young fifth grader who started his organized basketball career. Little did anyone know he would be the second person in Timberlake’s history to play in the district and state all-star basketball game.s

      Around the end of February, Mr. Cronnelly gave Levi Powers a note from NIC congratulating him for being eligible to play in the all-star game. Then around March 4, he found out that he would also be able to play in the all-star district game that was on March 8.

     This year Powers was the only player from Timberlake who received the opportunity to play in these two games.

     Powers said, “I wish someone else from our school had made it; it would make it more fun.”

     Some of the people that he played against, he has never seen. Powers says that he doesn’t think that not knowing these players made it any more difficult or easier.

     “It depends how they play; it’s not that hard to play the game with others,” he said. 

     Powers described the district game as being fun and “a good experience because I got to play with really good athletes who will be going off to colleges to play.”
     Powers also said that the district game had some challenges, like the fact that his team had 14 players and the opposing team had eight.

     “Once we got in our rhythm we were taken out,” he said.

     This would allow all players to have time in the game. The state game also posed some difficulties for Timberlake’s all-star player,.

     “It was rough” said Powers “the other team’s players were huge.”

     Although the games were difficult, Powers said that he would definitely go through this experience again.

      Though Powers started playing in an organized basketball team when he was in fifth grade, he actually started to play before that at home with his sister. His family also influences him in other ways; he says the person that inspires him the most is his father.

      Powers has many activities he would like to experience after high school including crab boating in Alaska, bull riding, trying out for the Spokane Shocks, having his own hunting channel, becoming a UFC fighter, sail boating, men’s league softball, going into the military with his cousin and being a sniper, and killing a black bear and a Kangaroo.

       The advice Powers gives younger students who participate in the sport is “practice basketball all year around”.