HALES CORNERS — John Lennon once said, “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” It’s something that rings very true to the students and faculty at Lutheran Special School in Hales Corners.
“I’m doing something great today,” said Jayden Eason, Lutheran Special School eighth grader.
It’s a bold statement from Jayden Eason, an eighth grader at Lutheran Special School, and he’s backing it up.
“I finally get to really show what I can do,” said Eason. “It’s competition.”
Eason is hitting the court hard along with his friend and teammate, Tamar Reed.
“We don’t take it easy on each other,” Eason said.
“I’m happy to be on a the team, for starters. I’m glad I get to play with my friends. I treat them like my brothers and my sisters. It’s really fun,” said Tamar Reed, Lutheran Special School eighth grader.
The two are part of the school’s first ever basketball team.
“Last year was the first year that we had physical education as part of the curriculum,” said Caleb Niedfeldt, Lutheran Special School coach and teacher.
Teacher and now coach, Caleb Niedfeldt, got the ball bouncing.
“One thing they love is basketball and I started seeing these guys really have some talent,” said Niedfeldt. “They’re pretty good so I’m like, let’s do practices.”
Soon uniforms were donated and the next step was just a play away.
“This is the first time ever in the history of this school that we’re going to play a game with uniforms and a running clock,” said Niedfeldt.
In late May, the team — made up of fourth through eighth graders — was able to face someone other than themselves in something other than jut practice.
“It’s a very exciting day. I get to finally lay an organized game. Play with my friends, some friends that I haven’t been able to play on the team with. So feeling really good,” Eason said.
“It adds excitement that I get to play against another team besides my friends, and that I can get some real competition,” said Reed.
Their opponent just happened to be a team for the school that used to occupy their building, Hales Corners Lutheran.
“We just want to do something really cool,” Niedfeldt said. “We called them up and said, ‘Hey, can we play a game?'”
With a resounding yes, the two schools met up on the court.
“It’s kind of like cool because I get to wear my favorite player, Giannis favorite number,” said Reed.
What was only a dream two year ago, is now something real and it allowed Jayden, Tamar and the rest of the team to be great.
“Just probably the greatest day of my life, really,” said Reed.
While a number of players from this year’s team will move on to other high schools next year, Niedfeldt says the team will continue. The school will be adding tenth grade next year as well as more seventh and eighth graders growing the enrollment from 55 to about 70.
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