For the first time in nearly 20 years, Mekoryuk has enough players to field a small co-ed high school basketball team. Harvey Wesley says he's been hoping to compete in a basketball league, and getting the opportunity has made him more engaged in school.
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the small island community of Mekoryuk has enough players to field a high school basketball team.In their first game this year, the team played against Tununak, a nearby village in Western Alaska. Fifteen-year-old power forward Harvey Wesley said that he had butterflies going into the game.
At the same time, he said that he was equally excited, “because every time I looked at that scoreboard I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I think we’re gonna win.’”Mekoryuk won that first game, and half of the rest of their games this season. That’s good enough to advance them to the small school district tournament, the 1A Coastal Conference Tournament, which begins March 3 in Bethel. If they win that, they’ll advance to the state tournament.
“Me and my friends got more closer, and we’ve been talking to each other for basketball and saying, ‘Hey, I think if we do this way, this would be more better,’” Wesley said.“Before I ever joined the basketball team, I always seen school as, like, ‘Oh, I got a long day at school.’ And then ever since I joined basketball, I’m like, ‘Oh, yes, I can get all my assignments done and then I can be in a basketball practice,’” Wesley said.
“We’re a small community. On a good day, it’s 200 people. And, you know, we have about 45 kids in the whole school, preschool through 12,” Kiokun said.
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