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Syesha met Lindsey Wilson and another WAC teammate, Enjoli Izidor, a former member of the Nigerian national team, before high school. Growing up in Bellevue, Syesha played against them as a youth. When she joined the WAC team about a year ago, she didn't know much about the Club. "I love the atmosphere here," she says during a break from practice. Syesha hopes to build the WAC women's program and eventually develop age-group teams much like the men's program has. than yourself," she says. "It kind brings you back to why you played competitive sports in the first place." "Playing on the team, you're representing something larger A Seattle classic Anyone who's seen The Heart of the Game, a documentary about the Roosevelt High School girls basketball team, knows Lindsey Wilson. "That's a blast from the past," she says, sitting courtside on the 8th Floor. Seattle Storm briefly in 2010 before being released. "I kind of always had it in my mind that when I came back to Seattle I'd play with the WAC," she says. "I think I especially appreciate this team because of the camaraderie. It's not the opportunity everyone gets when they step away from their sport. "To have that kind of camaraderie and competition—it's kind of magical, really." Lindsey is the movie's early star, putting up 41 points and a game-winning buzzer-beater in a performance any athlete would long remember. When it's captured in a critically acclaimed documentary, others tend to remember it, too. Following her high school career, Lindsey starred at Iowa State. She was a three-time all-Big 12 player, twice reached the Sweet 16, and graduated as the Cyclones' second all-time leading scorer and all-time assist leader. Her career then went global, taking her to teams in Greece, Turkey, Slovakia, Lithuania, Israel and Croatia. She was drafted out of college by the Connecticut Sun and played with the Syesha Thomas, Jill Bell, Mikaela Cowles, Lindsey Wilson and Jamie Van Horne with Shan Nichols, who often works out with the team. JAMIE VAN HORNE Played at yale • WorkS AT SEATTLE NONPROFIT SeeyourimPact • Niece of KEITH VAN HORNE, MEMBER OF THE 1985 CHICAGO BEARS • made humaNitariaN triP TO RWANDA EARLIER THIS year • Set yale recordS FOR CAREER 3-POINTERS AND GAMES PLAYED. JENNIE WILD FIRST-YEAR PEDIATRIC RESIDENT AT SEATTLE childreN'S hoSPital • PLAYED BASKETBALL AT WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY IN SPOKANE AFTER ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL • voluNteered With AMERICORPS, WORKING AS A DOULA FOR PRIMARILY SPANISH-SPEAKING SINGLE motherS • aPPearS iN "THE HEART OF THE GAME." LINDSEY WILSON HELPED IOWA STATE TO TWO SWEET 16 APPEARANCES • drafted by the coNNecticut SuN • Played IN GREECE, TURKEY, SLOVAKIA, LITHUANIA, iSrael aNd croatia • STARRED AT ROOSEVELT high School • aPPearS iN "THE HEART OF THE GAME." ALICIA HEATHCOTE PLAYED AT UW AS A WALK- oN aNd iN germaNy • RECOVERED FROM TORN achilleS teNdoN iN 2008 • WON STATE CHAMPIONSHIP WITH BISHOP BLANCHET HIGH School iN 1996 • eNJoyS WakeboardiNg • haS Served AS A WISH GRANTOR FOR THE MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION. APRIL 2012 | Washington Athletic Club Magazine | 25 LUKE RUTAN LUKE RUTAN