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and, as a ninth grader, was invited to play AAU ball against some of the area’s better high school players.
The contacts — and certainly her own talents — paid off. She’s received letters from more than a halfdozen schools about playing college basketball, including the University of North Carolina-Greensboro — “That’s where I want to go,” she says.
Although she has been offered athletic scholarships, UNC-Greensboro, a Division II school, does not offer education in direct exchange for athletics. Still, the school is appealing to Jordan, who also maintains a 3.2 grade point average in addition to her scoring average.
“They offer what I want,” she says. And “it will be good to get away from home.”
“Home” includes rural living in Rappahannock where “you have to go to another county to do anything” except visit friends and shoot basketballs.
“I’m happy that I grew up here,” she says, because it helped to instill “better values.”
She would, however, welcome the change college can provide.
She would also welcome a change in the team’s losing ways.
Only once, in the 1984 campaign, did the team not suffer a losing record. And at that, last year's team only produced a.500 record.
“The constant losing,” as she calls it, is something that will not be missed after high school. “We just don’t have enough girls” to stay competitive, particularly when some seniors who could play and contribute, decide against coming out for basketball.
“It’s frustrating,” says Jordan. “Just when you think you’re going to have a good year, your senior year, there it goes.”
Following the ceremony to honor Jordan, Rappahannock defeated Luray, 53-49 to even its record at 8-3, but turned around the next night to get bombed by Strasburg,
“I think we could be competitive,” she says. “But I think our problem is that we don’t know how to win.”
Jordan, a team leader, says one of the goals is to advance beyond the first round of the playoffs, a round that includes every district team.
Can that be accomplished? “I
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