{"id":12107,"date":"2015-11-19T10:31:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T18:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/early-90s-k-m-boys-basketball-teams-reunite\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T11:30:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T18:30:47","slug":"early-90s-k-m-boys-basketball-teams-reunite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/early-90s-k-m-boys-basketball-teams-reunite\/","title":{"rendered":"Early &#8217;90s K-M boys basketball teams reunite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Members of Kent-Meridian High School&#8217;s boys basketball teams from the early 1990s recently gathered for a reunion.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>K.J. Roberts, a 1991 Kent-Meridian graduate who went on to play basketball at the University of California, Berkeley, said the reunion gave former players a chance to reconnect and recognize their former coach, Mike Albrecht, who is now the principal at Kentridge High School.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;Albrecht was a great role model and coach to his players,&#8221; Roberts said. &#8220;He showed us how to be a good students, athletes, husbands and fathers. (He is) a great mentor who has always seen the value in doing things the right way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Attendees also included assistant coach Dave Jamison, who is now the boys basketball coach at Kentridge; Billy Thomas and James Gayden, class of 1990; Phil Rodman, class of 1991; Daryl Lozan, Chris Schlecht, John Wales and Matt Eilers, class of 1992; and Peter Robinson, class of 1993.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Thomas said he enjoyed seeing his former teammates and coaches.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe it has been 25 years since I&#8217;ve seen most of you,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It felt just like old times. Such great memories we all share.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Roberts said he hopes to make the reunion an annual event.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;Next year, we want to extend it to significant others, wives, all family members,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Kent-Meridian High School&#8217;s boys basketball teams from the early 1990s recently gathered for a reunion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12107"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}