If you’re a high school basketball coach, what do you do if a player is unavailable for a game? In most cases, the answer is the same thing that pro coaches would do in that situation, make the best they can out of the available players. One girls basketball coach in Virginia, though, had a different idea recently. Just take the floor and hope nobody notices.
Craig Loper II, the Sports Director at WAVY10/FOX43 in Virginia, shared a story that he said was “one of the strangest stories he’d ever heard of or talked about.” And judging by the story, it’s not hyperbole. A coach in her 20s suited up in a JV girls high school basketball game and played in place of one of the girls on the team who was absent.
“Last Friday we received an email from the mother on the Churchland High School girls JV basketball team, that an assistant coach on the team named Arlesha Boykins impersonated a 13-year-old player on the team that was out of town for a club basketball tournament.”
https://twitter.com/CraigLoperWAVY/status/1620205376460439553
At the time of this writing, Loper’s video had over 52,000 views and many of the viewers couldn’t help but note how crazy the story was.
This is a wild story. https://t.co/41gBBVve1P
— Matt Reynoldson (@Matt_Reynoldson) January 31, 2023
One of the wildest stories I have ever heard in my life! https://t.co/1lsBHkOonl
— Sam Ali (@SamAliSports) January 31, 2023
She’s in the locker room referencing old episodes of Martin. https://t.co/PyMtTNPfU9
— Rod (@rodimusprime) January 31, 2023
Taking the "next man up" mentality a little too far. https://t.co/aoTp4GjAZ8
— Nathan Giese (@NathanGiese) January 31, 2023
[Craig Loper II on Twitter, Photo Credit: WAVY News]
