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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? 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