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Jensen-Whyte Stepping Up for the Redmen

Jonas Emilsson
www.KramMag.com

Last season Jordan Jensen-Whyte received an excellent education on what it takes to be a champion.

As a grade-11 player, the 6’4” guard played big minutes for the Western Canada Redmen senior boy’s basketball team that last year captured the division one city championship banner, followed by the provincial 4A title a few weeks later.

“Last year, at the end of the year, he wasn’t a starter, but he played starter minutes,” said Redmen’s head coach Steve Wiebe. “We left some grade-12s in as starters last year, out of respect for their year, but realistically by the end of the year he was getting those starters minutes.”

That Redmen team was stacked with high-end, talented players who learned the hard way what it takes to be a winner, and the team’s veterans weren’t shy to take young teammates like Jensen-Whyte under their wing to pass on some knowledge.

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“The experience that he had in the cities and provincials last year, for him and John (Traboulsi) is really going to help them and our team as we get into those crunch games,” said Wiebe. “It is the poise and the confidence that they gained from that which is helping us so much.”

Based on this season’s results, Jensen-Whyte was obviously as eager to learn Continue…