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found, much to their surprise, that Jordan had already topped 1,000 points.
The ceremony Sept. 23, which, at first announcement, was intended to witness the 1,000th point, became a testimonial to her six years’ of hard work.
Karen Jordan will take it either way.
After all, it is something she planned, a goal she set for herself.
“I had confidence — I knew I could do it,” she says in an easy, relaxed manner representing a fullcourt pass away from being cocky. Setting goals — especially high ones — have just been a way of life.
“I set goals as high as I could,” she says, then she would “go for it, go all out.”
With those goals, Jordan has been able to take basketball beyond the court, beyond her gravel driveway — and even out of her basement, her substitute home court in case of bad weather — and out of the county. Basketball will more than likely be a big part of her college life beginning next fall.
"My lift revolves around basketball,” she says.
It hasn’t always been like that.
She began playing ball in the sixth grade “for something to do,” in an after-school pick-up games. “My friend said, ‘Let’s stay.’ So we did.”
Basketball may have been a new sport. Football, however, was not.
“I was a tomboy,” she says now with a laugh. “Anything my brother could do, I felt I could do better.”
That would be Anthony, now 23, who served as the athletic role model for kickball, baseball and football — “We played a lot of football,” she says.
Her first dose of organized basketball was the 8th grade and the jayvee team which finished 12-4 the best record of any team Jordan has played on.
The next year, she was playing varsity, and started compiling the points. The year after, her sophomore was the first of two consecutive all-district honors.
And she continued the hard work at home: working on her jump shot “so it would become automatic” on the driveway court, working on moves against imaginary opponents, practicing rebounding by throwing the ball off the backboard and pretending to box-out.
Or, when the weather forced her inside, she practiced one-on-one moves in the basement: against Boston, who doubled as the family dog and defensive specialist.
"That’s when you can really work on your moves,” she says.
She got help from other coaches
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