City Player of the Year: Jazmine Jackson
Matt Elliser, The Examiner
Mar 21, 2008 1:22 AM
SAN FRANCISCO (Map, News) - The trophies are starting to take up too much room, but there is still plenty of space for the tapes.
That alone is enough to ensure Jazmine Jackson remains eternally humble.
The Sacred Heart Cathedral star forward and her sister, sophomore center Kamilah Jackson, settle in after every game with mom Trina Easley-Jackson to review the film Easley-Jackson has recorded. And it’s not the made 3-pointers and cleverly taken charges that draw calls for the rewind button.
“We wait until one of us gets crossed over or falls down or something,” Jazmine Jackson said. “Then we just start laughing and watch it again.”
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Comic relief comes easier after a win, and you’d have to dig deep into the archives to find a game Jackson lost while playing for the Irish. The Pepperdine-bound senior was the leading lady for a team that went
33-0 this season, has won 56 straight overall, earned its third straight state title and was recognized as the mythical national champion by USA Today. Sacred Heart has gone 126-8 in her four-year varsity career.
For the third straight time, Jackson is The Examiner’s Player of the Year.
“What else can you say about Jaz — she’s a fantastic player,” Irish senior guard Rosslyn Beard said after Jackson scored eight of her game-high 17 points in the fourth quarter of a 46-45 win over St. Mary’s of Stockton in the NorCal final. “She wouldn’t let us lose.”
Jackson’s game includes all the attributes you would expect out of a star player. She can score inside on short shots and putbacks, make the perimeter jumper consistently and is a tenacious defender. Yet it is the small things and rare ability to produce in the clutch that truly separates her. In the St. Mary’s game, she shot just 3-of-19 from the field but hit 10 of 11 free throws. Against Magnolia of Anaheim in the state final, she was 4-for-18, but made all five of her foul shots and scored nine of her 13 points in the second half.
