Jasper Williams, an assistant basketball coach at Thornridge the last 20 years, has been named head coach at Bloom. Williams replaces Gary Meyer, who retired after 21 seasons at Bloom and Bloom Trail and will coach at Hammond (Ind.) Gavit next season.
Williams, 50, will inherit four starters from a team that went 24-5 and won the SICA East championship last season.
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Naperville Central’s Candace Parker, 2003 Ms. Basketball and USA Today’s player of the year, is one of five girls from Illinois named to the North team for the USA Basketball Women’s Youth Development Festival in Colorado Springs next week.
Five of the 12 players named to the North squad, which will be coached by Marshall’s Dorothy Gaters, are from the Chicago area. The other local players are Marian Catholic’s Lauren Lacey, Trinity’s Caprice Smith, Niles North’s Natasha Williams and Neuqua Valley’s Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton.
— Alan Sutton