January 19th NHSCA Sport Hour Now Available On-Demand

by Jeff Fisher
Host, NHSCA Sports Hour

If you missed last night's show featuring Sacred Heart High School (Los Angeles, CA) girls' basketball coach Greg Nakashima and 2011 High School Rudy Award winner Addison Marshall of Foster High School in Texas, don't fear, it's now available in our archives.

Nakashima talks about the trials-and-tribulations his girls face because the school doesn't have a gym of its own.  One of the biggest hurdles is the walk/run the girls must make every day to get to a rec center about a mile away for practice.  The journey takes them through gang-infested areas of East LA.

Marshall joined us during a chemotherapy treatment in Houston hospital as he battles leukemia.  Marshall and his mom talked about Addison's two-and-a-half year battle with the disease and his successful return to the football field for the second half of his team's final game in November.



Click here to listen to the show.

An East Los Angeles Girls Basketball that Battles More than Opponents to Play the Game

by Jeff Fisher
Host, NHSCA Sports Hour

You may remember my December, 2010 interview with Bishop Chatard football coach Vince Lorenzano, who talked about his school winning the most state championships (11) in Indiana history without the "luxury" of a home field.

Today, I'm sharing a great story written by Bill Plaschke of the LA Times, who shares with his readers the story of the tiny East Los Angeles girls' basketball team at Sacred Heart High School.

Plaschke not only describes the trials-and-tribulations of a team that not only doesn't have a home gym, but must deal with gangs and other modern day inner-city LA troubles just to get to a nearby rec center that serves as the team's home away from home.

Click here to read the story.

I've reached-out the school and hope to have the team's head coach Greg Nakashima on this week's NHSCA Sports Hour.

Click here to listen to interview with Bishop Chatard's Vince Lorenzano.