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Award twice, and was named captain
his senior year, despite being riddled
with injuries throughout the four years
he played college basketball.
"I've never had anybody who bat-
tled so hard in the training room to get
back and give us some quality time on
the floor," said Nelson. "He started
many of our games last year, and then
he lost the starting role for a while due
to injuries. Then he worked his way
back into the starting lineup again —
he was incredible."
On the court, he aver-
aged 4.2 in 15.5 minutes
per game this past season.
He played in every Blue
Jay contest, and started in
12 of the 21 games.
Ellis' innate love of the
game was his own cre-
ation, although his father,
Jerry, certainly served as
the boy's enabler. In fact,
Ellis remembers pleading
with his father for a bas-
ketball hoop as a birthday present, and
once he received the gift, he spent most
of his free time shooting hoops on the
driveway.
"What I remember most is his
desire to play," says Jerry Ellis, Evan's
father. "When he was in high school
— I think he was in junior varsity at
the time — he told me that his goal
was to play college basketball. That was
a very important thing for me."
In high school, he starred on the
court, which led to a flattering crush
of college recruiters. Playing basket-
ball, says Ellis, "is kind of like being
on stage. Everyone is watching you.
It's definitely a rush when you're first
out there. Then you get lost in the
game. Everything else leaves your
mind."
After high school, Ellis thought he'd
head to the University of Pennsylvania.
However, when recruiters from Johns
Hopkins, Swarthmore and the Univer-
sity of Chicago tried to lure the young
player, Ellis reconsidered. He headed
for Baltimore, met the Hopkins play-
ers, liked them and before he knew it
he was living, breathing and playing for
NCAA Division II Hopkins.
"The best part about living in Balti-
more was the fact that I was at a school
where I didn't know anyone, so I had
to start over, make new friends," says
Ellis. "Baltimore was like a playground
— the city has so much to do."
Said Jerry, "He had a lot of opportu-
nities to go to a number of different
colleges, and one of the reasons he
picked Hopkins — obviously it's a fine
school — but he had an excellent
opportunity to play basketball there."
Hopkins is part of the University
Athletic Association — "that was the
fun division," says Ellis, due to the
heavy travel schedule — and the Cen-
tennial Conference. The Hopkins team
was Centennial Conference champions
the last two years.
"It was pretty demanding," Ellis says
of his college basketball schedule. The
psychology/pre-med major spent at
least 25 hours a week
practicing, with two to
three games weekly dur-
ing the school year. That
time multiplied with
travel to road games.
Kicking off last season
in the Blue Jay Classic
tipoff tournament, Ellis
was named most valu-
able player, got Hopkins
started to a 21-win sea-
son, the most ever in
Hopkins history
"That was a good way to get the
season going," said Nelson, "and I
think we fed off that tournament. He
was a consummate team player, usually
called upon to defend the opponent's
biggest player, and he did that very
well. He had a stellar career at Hop-
kins."
Six weeks into freshman year, he
changed majors from astrophysics to
pre-med. "I figured, there was no
future in astrophysics," he jokes.
In the fall, Ellis will head to Ann
Arbor for medical school at the Univer-
sity of Michigan. What will he do for
fun? "I will definitely get into an intra-
mural basketball league," Ellis says.
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WB Soccer Star
Takes Big Step
Erin Konheim, a ninth grader at West
Bloomfield High School, was selected
to the Unites States Youth Soccer Asso-
ciation Region II Olympic Develop-
ment Program Team.
Konheim, 14, was selected by
regional and national coaches at the
regional camp held in DeKalb, Ill., two
weeks ago. The top 18 players from 14
Midwestern states were invited to the
camp. Thirty players were selected to
the regional pool, and 16 of those
selected to the regional team.
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National Team in the future, according
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