Even I couldn't have written a better script for Jamaika Hughes. Let's backtrack a few years to when she was around 6 or 7, that's when I first met her dad Vance. We ran across his team during the Whataburger event, my daughter was heading to the 8th grade while his daughters were on their way to the 7th and 9th grades. Both of these young ladies went on to be accomplished stars and signing with Texas and LSU along the way.
Jamaika wound up being an accomplished track star who didn't know if she wanted to even play basketball in college, I can only imagine the pressure she must have felt being compared to her older sisters but after seeing her play over the summer with her club team coached by her dad, the Dream Team, in the Basketball On The Bayou Tournament, there was no doubt in my mind she was a big time basketball player and on Christmas day, she informed Texas Tech she would be committing and continuing her academic and athletic career as a Red Raider. Right now, this junior sensation has hopes on leading her TABC 3A #2 team Kennedale to state and it might be a good thing to not count her out and since dad already has won a state title with Nicky and Destiny at Waxahachie, this would truly be a storybook finish. Well actually it already is because with less than 5% of high school seniors making it to the next level, Hughes has gone 3 for 3.
