Former Viking Madeleine
Gates (33), now playing pro
volleyball in Europe, showed
her dominance in basketball
as a high school sophomore in this
play from the CIF Finals
March 8, 2014.
(Photos by Ed Piper)
By Ed Piper
When we last touched base with Madeleine Gates (April 26), her mother, Amy Randel, was informing us Madeleine was playing pro volleyball in Dresden, Germany.
Finally getting my external hard drive squared away--the one storing my archive photos of Gates as a 6'2" sophomore dominating the CIF basketball finals in a 51-48 loss to Central--I can show you some of the brilliance she displayed back then.
As a basketball fan, I was so pleased to see her show her wares for La Jolla High back in 2013-2014. It was quite a season, in which Madeleine grabbed 22 rebounds in one game, and led the Vikings to the title match before losing.
But a snafu in working out practice schedules between her club volleyball and school basketball teams led to her focusing on her number-one sport, volleyball, which her mom played. Dad, Michael, played basketball when he was younger.
Amy's news back on April 26 was that Madeleine signed to play pro volleyball in Cannes, France, starting in September.
In the CIF quarterfinals
against Fallbrook, Gates
was double-teamed in an effort
to neutralize her underneath
the basket. La Jolla won,
62-49, on Feb. 28, 2014.
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