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Ty Rodgers bringing gold medal to Illinois
TIJUANA, MEXICO (WCIA) — Future Illini Ty Rodgers can be a gold medalist. Rodgers and the U18 USA Crew beat Brazil 102-60 within the FIBA Americas Championship in Tijuana, Mexico.
Rodgers says it’s a dream come true to play at this excessive of stage and mentioned his mindset coming into the match was to return residence with the gold.
“It’s been good. Simply enjoying on a regular basis towards these excessive stage gamers, it’s been good,” Rodgers mentioned. “Man, I find it irresistible man. Enjoying towards the most effective competitors is at all times superb and attending to play with them too is a blessing for positive. Like, that is surreal man. Like whenever you’re working your complete life, simply working to achieve these goals and issues like that, nevertheless it’s a enterprise journey too. We’re trying to come down right here and win gold.”
Rodgers says he plans to return to Illinois to coach along with his future teammates.