Senior Support Propels Ramsay Basketball Team, But Not In The Way You Think

Alabama News Center | March 3, 2018 @ 5:00 am

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.

Brooke Kyle plays forward and center on the Ramsay girls basketball team. Thursday, the junior was making the call, not for a play on the basketball court but calling the numbers in a bingo game for senior residents at neighboring South Health and Rehabilitation.

“When we come and visit them, it’s like we’re their family,” senior Ajah Wayne said. “They call us their family, sort of like their granddaughters.”

When most teams that advance to the semifinals of the state high school basketball tournament talk about senior support, they are talking about 12th-graders at their school.At Ramsay, coach Ronnie Jackson and his squad are also talking about the senior citizens who live at South, but have taken a place in the players’ hearts.

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