Ryan Sierra grew up early, and grew up fast. Before dedicating his high school years to playing only tackle football, this 6'0" 7th grader was a stud on the basketball court. Sierra grew up playing 3 sports, basketball, baseball, and flag football. He was always one of the tallest kids in his classes growing up, but unlike most tall kids in school, he was very coordinated as playing sports helped him develop his motor skills and become the athlete he is today.
Baseball has always been his favorite sport, but Ryan truly excelled with basketball. Playing WJBA in elementary school and into middle school, he was very skilled. Being the tallest kid on the team each season, coaches assumed he would be their post player, but those thoughts usually passed 10 minutes into their first practice, as he was the best shooter and ball handler on the court. When asked about remembering the first time he dunked a basketball, he replied, "Like it was yesterday. I had just gotten to school early, in the 7th grade. I hustled to school in the mornings so I would have a little free time. I walked about 2 miles to and from school everyday. It was really cold that morning and we started playing some 6 on 6, it seemed like every kid on the playground was playing basketball that morning. I was standing around half court when someone from the other team took a deep shot the resulted in a long rebound. My buddy Scott, got the rebound and threw it out to me and shouted, 'Go dunk it dick!' I caught the ball, took like 3 steps before dribbling once, then two more steps and jumped, and with one hand crammed the ball down. I tried grabbing the rim, only to cut my hand on the way down on the chain net. It hurt so bad, it was so cold, and it bled so much. I didn't care and nobody noticed, I just dunked the ball!"
Baseball has always been his favorite sport, but Ryan truly excelled with basketball. Playing WJBA in elementary school and into middle school, he was very skilled. Being the tallest kid on the team each season, coaches assumed he would be their post player, but those thoughts usually passed 10 minutes into their first practice, as he was the best shooter and ball handler on the court. When asked about remembering the first time he dunked a basketball, he replied, "Like it was yesterday. I had just gotten to school early, in the 7th grade. I hustled to school in the mornings so I would have a little free time. I walked about 2 miles to and from school everyday. It was really cold that morning and we started playing some 6 on 6, it seemed like every kid on the playground was playing basketball that morning. I was standing around half court when someone from the other team took a deep shot the resulted in a long rebound. My buddy Scott, got the rebound and threw it out to me and shouted, 'Go dunk it dick!' I caught the ball, took like 3 steps before dribbling once, then two more steps and jumped, and with one hand crammed the ball down. I tried grabbing the rim, only to cut my hand on the way down on the chain net. It hurt so bad, it was so cold, and it bled so much. I didn't care and nobody noticed, I just dunked the ball!"
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