Jessica Steller and her teammates on the Long Island Lightning 11 and under basketball team are off to another great season of very competitive basketball. The girls won their first three tournaments by wide margins and upped their winning record to 37 and 0.
Their first tournament of the 2001 season was held the weekend of April 21, played at SUNY Old Westbury, and was sponsored by the Silver bullets (another AAU Club based on Long Island). The second tournament was held the following weekend at Island Garden in West Hempstead and was sponsored by the Long Island Lightning. In one game, Jessica scored 20 points and had 15 rebounds and 12 assists. Their most recent victories came with all four game of the CT Storm Mother's Day Classic Tournament held in Mystic, CT.
Jessica is a 6th grade student at the Green Vale School where she also plays on the school's basketball and softball teams.