Shafer: Jackson Area Hoops Star
Sydney Shafer continues to impress, coaches, fans, athletes and media with her work on the court. JTV was on hand for her performance last week against Lumen Christi's varsity team. After her work on the hardwood last season, she was named a unanimous Class B first-team all-state selection by the Associated Press. It wasn't long after she became a Division 1 basketball player. On July 15th, Shafer announced that she will be continuing her career as a collegiate athlete at Western Michigan. Just 1% of the 550,000 kids that play high school basketball this year will have the chance to play for a Division One NCAA program. This means around 10 in 1,000 will play at the next level (according to NCAA statistics). During the 2017-18 season Shafer averaged 17 points, six rebounds, four steals and three assists per game and also earned Interstate-8 Athletic Conference Player of the Year honors. Shafer and her teammates appeared on JTV last week. See photos of their game here: On the 19th, Shafer scored 17 points, lifting her to over 1,000 on her career. This also means she is just the fifth player in program history to achieve the feat and only the second since…
Jackson College Bowling Season Opens in January
By, Gabriel Schray | JTV Sports | December 20th, 2018 Jackson College has added men's and women's bowling teams for the upcoming collegiate season. The college season will begin in January, and the Jets are hoping to have a good year. The State of Michigan is one of the top bowling states in the country, and the Jackson area is a bowling community in comparison with most others. Jackson College may have additional success thanks to this. "Our teams are coming together quite nicely. We currently have 7 men and 4 women, but I’m in the process of adding women number 5 as we speak,” said first year Head Coach Corey Daniels. “Our men’s team is farther along than our women’s team but our women’s team has made vast improvements since the beginning of our season in October." Corey Daniels is a veteran bowler of over 17 years and is a graduate of Northwest High School where he bowled for four years. He continued his studies at Grand Valley State University for business administration. He has been the coach for Northwest varsity bowling for the past four years. Today he manages Suburban Lanes bowling alley on Ann Arbor Road, owned…