A Creston teen will compete for a provincial basketball title when he plays for the Okanagan zone in the BC Summer Games, which run in Surrey from July 19-22.
Jacob Dumas is the only Creston player on the team, for which he tried out about two weeks ago. He already plays for the South Okanagan U-14 team — there was no U-14 Kootenay team this year — so he knew the competition against the North Okanagan team would be a breeze.
“We’d played North Okanagan in a Kamloops tournament, so I was confident I was going to make it,” he said.
The 14-year-old point guard has been playing basketball seriously since Grade 2, and plans to make a career of it.
“It’s one of the very few sports where you can score a lot of points,” he said. “And there are more opportunities to assist others. I get satisfaction from seeing other people get points from my passes or assists.”
His game doesn’t just stay on the court, though — with two hoops in his front yard, Dumas gets a lot of practice in the sport he loves.
“If we let him, he’d play eight hours a day — every day,” said his mom, Denise.
And he’s looking forward to the challenge of competing against the province’s best players.
“It will be fun to experience the Summer Games,” he said.
