Jashaun Agosto a 12 year old point guard from Federal Way, Washington has become one of the premier basketball phenoms in the country. He has been on just every TV talk and has now completed a commercial. Agosto has decided give some insight into his life by providing Basketball Spotlight with a weekly journal. Welcome to the life of a young phenom!
Wow, it's been an exciting two weeks. I will start with the weekend of the 21st & 22nd. My 6th grade AAU team "Jamal Crawford's Seattle Speed Elite" played in our Western Washington National Qualifier Tournament. We played 5 games and I played okay. I averaged 21 points, 6 assists and 5 steals a game. I was still recovering from the concussion I had a couple weeks prior in my Middle School game. The doctors told me not to play for a month, but I have been to Division I Nationals 3 yrs in a row and I didn't want to miss out on the opportunity with my new team. Well, we qualified for Division I Nationals! We will be in Virginia in July!
Monday the 23rd after school I had middle school basketball practice from 2:45 to 5:15. My middle school team had one more game to play on Tuesday and it was our championship game for the Federal Way District. I am the first 6th grader in school history to make the Varsity team at Saghalie Middle School. The entire team is 8th graders. My school had only won 1 championship ever and it was 12 yrs ago. After school ball practice my mom picked me up and took me to Track practice with Seattle Speed at U.W. I did some jump technique work and middle distance work with my Olympic trainers.
Tuesday the 24th, was the big day. It was our Championship game and it was vs. Allonzo Trier's school team. We played them once prior and beat them by 20 plus points. Well, we won again and took the Championship. I played a little over half the game and scored 12 points with 7 assists. After the game, some high school coaches that came to watch the game, shook my hand and told me good job and keep up the work. We took a team photo and I was then on my way to my AAU Basketball practice from 6:00 to 8:30.
Wednesday the 25th after school my dad picked me up and took me to the federal way community center. He worked out with me from 3:00 to 6:00. He then took me to my track practice at U.W. I worked on speed work and some middle distance work.
Thursday the 26th after school my dad picked me up and took me to the federal way community center and we worked out from 3:00 to 5:30. I did my ply metric work, core strength work, and basketball workout. After the work out, I went to my AAU basketball practice from 6:00 to 8:30.
Friday the 27th after school I worked out at the community center from 3:00 to 7:00. The last hour, I got some run with the high school kids and we held court 5 games in a row. I had to get to bed early since my AAU team had 3 league games the next day. Next week is spring break!!!!!
Saturday the 28th, I had 3 AAU spring league games. We won all 3 but the last game was exciting. We were up by 1 point with 25 seconds to go. Coach told us to manage the ball and make them foul us. Well, my teammate threw the ball away at he top of the key and the opposing team stole it and went down and scored a lay up. When the basket was scored there was 5 seconds on the clock. We had no timeouts and my teammate quickly inbounded the ball to me at the baseline. I dribbled up the court as fast as I could while weaving through players. I got all the way to inside the key and the opposing teams 6ft center was in my way. I put up a floater barely over his hands and made the basket at the buzzer. We won the game and started our season 3-0. From that game, my dad took my mom and I to the airport. We were being flown to Universal Studios in California to shoot a Sunkist Television commercial. When I arrived in California I was stopped several times by people wanting my autograph. The limo driver had a sign with my name on it and he took us to the hotel.
Sunday the 1st, we were picked up by a limo and taken to the studio set. I don't want to give details of what I did in the commercial. But as soon as it's released they will send me a video copy and I will share it with everyone. It was a long 8 hour day and the film crew who video taped Kobe Bryant jumping over the car and the pool, was the same crew who filmed my commercial. It was a very exciting experience and the commercial should turn out really cool.
Monday the 2nd, I picked up some gifts for my dad, brothers, and sisters to bring home to Seattle. Later in the afternoon my dad picked me up from the Airport. From the airport we went straight to the community center and I worked out from 6:00 to 9:30 p.m.
Tuesday the 3rd my dad took me to the community center to work out from 7:00 a.m to 1:00 p.m. The rest of the day I played with my friends and family. Xbox 360 Nba 2k9 all afternoon.
Wednesday the 4th, my dad took me to the community center from 7:00 to 1:00 p.m. I played with my friends and family at home. Video games, movies, etc. Then I had my last track practice of the week at U.W. We leave to go to Phoenix Arizona on Friday for a National Track meet. I will be gone at the track meet until Monday. When I get back, I will let everyone know how I did. I'm running the 1500, and the 800. All the top athletes in the nation will be at this meet.
God Bless,
Jashaun Agosto
