Travis Recek

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AUSTIN, Texas — With a father and older brother that played baseball, it wasn’t surprising that Evan Farrow picked up a baseball at an early age. “I looked up to my big brother. Whatever he did, I thought that was super cool,” says Farrow. “I kind of got into it like that.”Farrow says he was always a tall kid but also skinny. When he started filling out, his game improved. “I’m throwing pretty hard. I’m putting up good numbers,” says Farrow.

2 months ago | spectrumlocalnews.com | Travis Recek

TEXAS — There is one distinct moment that forever changed Nolan Cernosek’s life. “I was rounding third on a base hit and then my femur just happened,” Nolan recalls of that moment during a summer league baseball game in 2023. “I thought I got hit by the ball because I felt a sharp pain in my right leg, but I fell on the ground and tried to get up. I couldn’t get up.

2 months ago | spectrumlocalnews.com | Travis Recek

AUSTIN, Texas — Ja’Patrick Blackmon remembers making the basketball team for the first time in the third grade. His love for the sport grew from there. Blackmon continued to play in high school at Wilcox Central in Camden, Ala. He had hoped to play in college, but he had a backup plan if that didn’t work out.

Feb 9, 2025 | spectrumlocalnews.com | Travis Recek

AUSTIN, Texas — Tiana Henderson can remember the moment her son first become fascinated by the game of basketball. “When he went to Chuck E. Cheese, he was on the machine and when he gets in the car and he says, ‘mom, can I do this for long?’” recalls Tiana. “I was like ‘you want to play it again?’ He was like, ‘yeah, for a long time.’ I was like, ‘OK, you can do basketball for long.’”Her son, Legend Henderson, was hooked on basketball after that. He also loved football at an early age, too.

Jan 27, 2025 | spectrumlocalnews.com | Travis Recek

AUSTIN, Texas — Last year, Aiden Disu made the move to transfer to St. Michael’s Prep for his junior year. As soon as he showed up on campus and joined the basketball team, he felt right at home. “It was night and day from my old school,” Disu said. “The energy in the gym was insane, everyone was talking and having fun but were working.