Montclair Athlete Spotlight: Janyia McGainey-Rodgers, MHS, senior, basketball
by Andrew Garda
garda@montclairlocal.news
For Montclair Treble School senior Janyia McGainey-Rodgers, the girls five's 40-34 convince crosstown rival Montclair Kimberley Honorary society in the first preliminary round of the Essex County Tourney was a big moment.
"It feels in truth good to get our maiden tournament gain," she aforesaid after the game. "We tried to get one last year, but we didn't make IT. Soh, to win something equal this, especially in my senior year, is really good."
McGainey-Rodgers said the departure this year has been team up chemistry, though that has taken a piece to get conjointly this season.
"With a several private instructor, we'atomic number 75 all kinda fresh and gorge like that," she said. "It was just, [at first] we weren't playing together besides as we should. Only now we really know each other. We altogether trust each other and non just certain populate on the court, but equal everyone on the court."
McGainey-Rodgers is hoping her team can finish the season potent, and feels that recently the squad has begun to hit its stride.
"We've been putt in much of work into it. Primitively of the season, we weren't winning so much. [Now] we've had closer numbers racket against teams. So, we're acquiring a lot ameliorate, which is very opportune and our work is paying off."
McGainey-Rodgers took a couple of transactions out of her post-game celebration to talk hoops and more for this week's Athlete Spotlight:
How did you end up focalisation on basketball? I started playing in fifth grade. I've done cheer, I've cooked gymnastics, volleyball, and track but basketball is something I feel like I'm too fortunate at. I like running, so I can run up and down the court [and] information technology's a serious way to get physical and get my belligerence out and gourmandize like that. And information technology's good for my mind.
Are you looking to play like several guild ball or anything at the next level? I privation to gambling in college and I'll probably play AAU ball this year, and so hopefully get a scholarship.
Do you have any favorite colleges? I want to give out to Clark-Atlanta University Oregon Rutgers. So I'm applying to both of those.
Do you know what you might deprivation to study? I want to be a teacher and major in African American English black studies.
What draws you to teaching? My mom was a teacher and I work with kids right now, and I work with kids over the summer so I just really enjoy working with kids and didactics and stuff like that.
What do you wish to do for fun? I ordinarily sportsmanlike hang out or I like a run Beaver State write. Just writing narratives about my life and stuff like that.
What do you like about writing? It's [another] style to get everything extinct. Sometimes it feels good just to get everything out of my head verbally, but non having to public lecture to someone.
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Source: https://www.montclairlocal.news/2020/02/07/montclair-athlete-spotlight-janyia-mcgainey-rodgers-mhs-senior-basketball/