The state champion Crimson Bears boys basketball team held a banquet on Tuesday night at the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall, bookending a Juneau-Douglas High School season in which they won their first state championship in 18 years.<\/p>\n
Gov. Bill Walker, former NBA all-star and JDHS alumnus Carlos Boozer and Juneau lawmakers attended to pay tribute to the boys team and its accomplishmetns.<\/span><\/p>\n Boozer, who was part of JDHS\u2019 last championship squad, contacted coach Robert Casperson himself, saying he wanted to be a part of the ceremonies. He made his first trip to Juneau in three years to congratulate the boys, saying, \u201cI\u2019ve done a lot of things in my basketball career, but I\u2019ll always look back to my state championships here because it gave me an appetite for winning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c… I\u2019m proud of you guys, and I wish I could have seen you play a little bit more,\u201d he continued. \u201cTake the lessons you\u2019ve learned, and apply them to your life; you\u2019ll never forget this moment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Gov. Walker almost presented the boys their championship trophy.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI was supposed to present the trophy,\u201d Walker joked with the team. \u201cBut I was standing on the court, and one of you guys reached over my head and grabbed it out of my hands. You weren\u2019t gonna wait for the ceremonies.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n Reps. Cathy Mu\u00f1oz and Sam Kito joined Sen. Dennis Egan to present a framed legislative citation honoring the Crimson Bears\u2019 accomplishments.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI am glad to be a part of legislation the governor can\u2019t veto,\u201d Egan said.<\/span><\/p>\n The varsity awards presented Tuesday included:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2022 MVP, Kaleb Tompkins.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 2-point marksman, Erik Kelly<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 3-point marksman, Guy Bean<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Mr. Clutch, Kaleb Tompkins<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Toughness award, Bryce Swofford<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Best passer, Treyson Ramos<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Best rebounder, Bryce Swofford.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Best defense, Treyson Ramos<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Hustle, Bryce Swofford<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Most improved, Hunter Hickok<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Inspiration, Guy Bean; <\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Zach Gordon award, Kaleb Tompkins<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Junior Varsity awards went to:<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 MVP, Jordan Milligan<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Mr. Hustle, Israel Yadao<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Defensive award, John Hamrick<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Most improved, Sesar Hersisson<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Special recognition, Doug Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The state champion Crimson Bears boys basketball team held a banquet on Tuesday night at the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall, bookending a Juneau-Douglas High School season in which they won their first state championship in 18 years. Gov. Bill Walker, former NBA all-star and JDHS alumnus Carlos Boozer and Juneau lawmakers attended to pay tribute to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":24683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-24682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24682"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}