Stories By Tony Bleill
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BlueStar
/ 5 years ago16th Annual USJN Summer Final Midwest
WAUKEGAN, Ill. – When it was over, their summer season finally complete, the players of the Michigan Force 17 squad gathered...
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Events
/ 5 years agoSpotlight – Blue Star Travel Team – Wisconsin Purple Aces
Cordero Barkley, director of the Wisconsin Purple Aces, couldn’t have imagined he’d be in his current position. “I was doing the...
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BlueStar
/ 5 years agoSpotlight On – The Oakland Soldiers
Darius Liggett avoids subtly when describing the style of play of his Oakland Lady Soldiers basketball club. “Our philosophy inside the...
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/ 5 years agoSpotlight – Lady Meanstreets
"When we first got started, being a new group, it was very difficult because we didn't have an established reputation," Armstrong...
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/ 5 years agoSpotlight On – Heart of Illinois
Blue star Travel Team - The Heart of Illinois
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BlueStar
/ 6 years ago14th USJN Battle of the Programs / Elite Oktoberfest
PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wis. — Perhaps the top 2020 prospect at USJN’s 14th annual Battle of the Programs and Elite Oktoberfest was 5-foot-9...
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BlueStar
/ 6 years ago15th Annual USJN Summer Finale – Midwest
WAUKEGAN, Ill. – It’s a good thing that rosters are available for the Indy Magic 16 Andrus Blue Star team –...
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Events
/ 6 years agoBlue Star Travel Team Spotlight – 805 Family
When George Albanez started a club called 805 Basketball in 1996, there was no indication the name would eventually be changed....
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Events
/ 6 years ago13th Annual USJN Windy City Classic
WAUKEGAN, Ill. — USJN’s 13th annual Windy City extravaganza featuried 344 teams but still had one player unlike any other: Fran Belibi...
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Events
/ 7 years agoUSJN Battle Of The Programs
PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wis. – Not that Breanna Beal needed it per se, but the highly touted guard from Rock Island, Ill.,...
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BlueStar
/ 7 years ago14th Annual USJN Summer Final Midwest
WAUKEGAN, Ill. — She hasn’t played a minute of basketball for her eighth grade team yet but Camille Jackson of Chicago...
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BlueStar
/ 7 years agoSpotlight On The Minnesota Crossfire
The mission of the Minnesota Crossfire program doesn’t quite stand alone in the landscape of club basketball teams, but it remains...
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BlueStar
/ 8 years agoUSJN’s 12th Annual Battle Of The Programs
PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wis. – For a good portion of the season, the Indiana Flight’s top team bulldozed through most of the...
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Events
/ 8 years ago13th Annual USJN Summer Final
WAUKEGAN, Ill. – If you have any connection to the Wisconsin Academy basketball program, you had plenty to celebrate at USJN’s...
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Challenges
/ 8 years agoBasketball Near The Brickyard
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.– Competing against stiff competition while having seven available players isn’t the ideal path to success. But it worked out...
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HS Girls
/ 8 years ago14th Annual USJN Mid America Challenge
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —It’s something of a problem — but it’s a nice problem to have. Illinois Lady Lightning director Michael Seberger...
