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Ragsdale's Locklear hits the "big city"
JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ/Neus 6> RecorJ
Danyel Locklear is averaging 14.5 points and 10 rebounds for Ragsdale
this season. Says Tigers coach Jerry Fuqua, "Danyel is probably the
most fundamentally sound basketball player I've been around."
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are relatively unchanged from
the way they were 150 million
years ago.
? Jamestown isn't exactly
New York, but to Danyel
Locklear, it's another world.
Her teammates are finding out
about her world, too.
By Angela Clare
Scuff Writer
JAMESTOWN ? Before moving
to Jamestown last spring, Danyel
Locklear had never lived in a town
that had a McDonald's or a fourlane
road.
That might sound unbelievable,
but to Locklear, that's just how life
was growing up in a small town.
Locklear, a Native American
from 'lie Lumbee tribe, was born
and raised in Pembroke, population
2,210. Until last semester she attended
Purnell Swett, which she
estimated was 90 percent native
American and 10 percent black
with two or three white students.
So when her mother, Kathy,
moved the family to Jamestown to
become the executive director of
the Guilford Native American Association
in March, Danyel Locklear
felt like she had just arrived in
the big city.
"It's neat to see people from different
countries and stuff," Locklear
said. "Before I came here, I'd
never met a Vietnamese person;
now I have. And one of my friends
goes to Catholic church; I've never
known anybody Catholic before."
It's an eye-opening experience
for Locklear and her new teammates
on the Ragsdale basketball
team. Locklear has been answering
her teammates' questions and trying
to teach them about her own
culture, even promising to take
them to a Pow Wow, or festival
with dancing, crafts and food.
"I'm going to teach them how to
smoke dance," Locklear said of an
activity performed with a drummer
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who speeds the tempo as the
dancer tries to keep up. "It's going
to be very interesting "
But that will have to come later
The Tigers (1-6) will begin play
today in the High Point Enterprise
Holiday Classic, meeting defending
Class 2-A state champion High
Point Central (7-1) on its home
floor at 8 p.m.
The tournament
will continue
through Thursday
with games at
Central and Andrews.
Seven games
into the season,
Locklear is leading
the Tigers
with 14.5 noints
Locklear
10 rebounds and 1.7 blocks.
"When Danyel first met the team
at camp this summer, she worked
so diligently to fit in," Ragsdale
coach Jerry Fuqua said. "She
didn't try to take over, even though
she's the type who could easily
dominate a game if she so chose."
Locklear, a 5-foot-ll center/power
forward, is a physical
and aggressive player inside and is
shooting 50 percent.
And that doesn't mean just easy
layups from underneath
the basket.
During a
game Dec. 13
against North Davidson,
Locklear
made a 3-pointer
with 46 seconds
left to tje the
score.
"Good gracious.
I was shak
Fuqua
ing when I hit that," Locklear said.
"I couldn't believe it. I thought,
"Did I just shoot that?' But it got the
team fired up, I think "
The Tigers lost the game, but
Lockiear's basket kept them close
until the final seconds.
"Danyel is probably the most
fundamentally sound basketball
player I've been around," Fuqua
said. "And I don't take any credit
for that; she was like that when she
got here."
Locklear has been like that since
she started playing with her father
and a bunch of teenaged boys on
the courts at UNC Pembroke.
At 10 years old, Locklear had to
learn quickly to keep up with the
boys she played with. By the time
she was in high school, she was
better than most of the older, stronger
guys she played with.
"Sometimes I'd block their shots
or make a move to get around
them, and they wouldn't even see
me there," Locklear said. "A lot of
times they'd knock me around, but
I would just jump back up and try
to knock them down, too. My aggression,
and the way I push all the
girls down now when I don't mean
it, comes from that."
Locklear likes to play with the
guys when she can, such as when
her weightlifting class ends early.
But there are other rituals from
home that Locklear can't duplicate
in Jamestown. She can't get the
chicken and pastry or the collard
greens like her grandmother would
make for Sunday night dinners.
"I get homesick sometimes,
missing the country and the rest of
the family," Locklear said. "But I
haven't lost anything by leaving
there. It was so small, it felt like my
whole world was Pembroke. I've
gained a lot more than I could ever
lose by leaving.
"Back home, it was comfortable,
because it was all I knew. But this
has broadened my horizons. I feel
so much more educated now that
I'm here."
But she hasn't tried McDonald's.
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