Alina Yamin '19 Recruiting Profile

    My name is Alina Yamin.  I am a student at Northside College Prep, a Chicago selective enrollment public high school with a national reputation for academic excellence.  My education at Northside satisfies my desire to learn and experience new, exciting, and diverse things in a challenging environment.  It also encourages me to set high standards of academic achievement that I strive diligently and successfully to meet by hard work and perseverance.  Finally, although I value learning for its own sake, Northside is preparing me well to continue my education at a college or university that also will be stimulating intellectually and rigorous academically.

    In addition to academics, basketball is my passion in life.  I have played competitive basketball since I was in fifth grade, and I have made a serious commitment to learning the fundamentals and continuing to improve and develop my skills as an individual and a team player.  While at Northside, I have started on the girls’ varsity basketball team since I was a freshman.  On offense, I am the team’s shooting guard and its primary ballhandler and passer.  As a co-captain during my sophomore and junior seasons, I also am a team leader.  My involvement in basketball, however, is not limited to playing on my school team.  I participate in AAU travel team basketball, play in pickup games and train on my own at the local YMCA, and follow the NBA closely.  To put it simply, I love basketball,  and I hope to continue learning about and playing the game for as long as I can.