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Lady Rockets Sydney Streater Signs with Logan College


sydney-streater-team-family-042009Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Lady Rockets basketball player and Rich East senior Sydney Streater has signed to be a student-athlete at John A. Logan College in Carterville, Illinois. Sharing in the moment with Sydney are her grandmother, Mary Douglas {bottom left) and her mother, Kathleen (bottom right). Also (top row, from left): Marty Hawkins, head coach at Logan; RE Coach Jonnie Bass; her Rocket and AAU/Xpress teammates, Nikki Stevenson, Brittany Miller, Shaquala Armstrong, Diamond Burt; and Eric Armstrong, her AAU/Xpress coach.

Established in 1978, the Lady Vols basketball team has a rich tradition of success. Logan has won 16 conference titles and 12 Region 24 Tournament championships. The Lady Vols have competed in the NJCAA National Tournament 12 times, with their best placement coming in 1988 when they finished second. They have also reached the Final 4 four times and the Final 8 ten times. Thirteen players have been named NJCAA All-Americans.  Nearly 100 Lady Vols have gone on to play basketball at four-year colleges, more than a dozen in the past four years and five in the past two years.

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