WINNIPEG – Jordan Tully doesn’t think she plays a typical game.
“People would say more like a boy, like more aggressive, quicker, faster,” said Tully.
The Winnipegger recently signed with Boise State University in Idaho, becoming just the second active female player from Manitoba to receive aN NCAA Division 1 basketball scholarship.
“It was actually a lot to handle because I was getting phone calls like three or four every night,” said Tully.
More than 20 D1 universities lobbied her to sign at their schools after she led Manitoba to its first national championship in 25 years this past summer and was named the most valuable player
“She’s strong offensively and strong defensively,” said Holly Kitchen who has coached Tully for the last four years at Oak Park high school. “When you have her work ethic in there as well and her drive to succeed there’s no stopping what she can do.”
“Watching her play is like motivation in itself just because she’s always running up and down the floor as hard as she can,” said Tully’s teammate Jodie Sobiak.
And the 6’2 guard, forward is just getting started. Her goal is to eventually play for Team Canada and then in Europe, just like the main character does in her favourite childhood movie “Love and Basketball”.
“That would literally just be my dream. She goes to a Division 1 school, plays, does well and then she goes to play overseas,” said Tully.
She is now well on her way to making that dream a reality.
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