The hometown boy from Camarillo, Jaime Jaquez Jr., returned to the highschool fitness center the place he spent numerous hours sweating, diving for unfastened balls and dunking. It was a much-beloved homecoming Tuesday evening in entrance of a neighborhood that all the time appreciated his loyalty and dedication.
“We get to etch his name in history,” Camarillo coach Brendan Garrett stated
The ceremony concerned retiring his jersey No. 24 as pyrotechnics went off within the fitness center. There additionally was a banner unveiled and future Scorpions will be capable of see a show within the fitness center lobby and have somebody to function a normal for excellence, having gone from Camarillo to UCLA to the Miami Warmth.
“I love this community,” Jaquez stated. “Everybody here believed in what I could do.”
The timing couldn’t have been extra good, with Jaquez on the town to play the Clippers on Monday and the Lakers on Wednesday. And Camarillo’s basketball workforce is having its personal dream season, standing at 19-1 going right into a league sport in opposition to Simi Valley.
In 2018, members of this 12 months’s Camarillo basketball workforce took a photograph with Jaime Jaquez Jr. They’re Shane Frank, left, Brendan Widerburg, Josh Castaniero, Evan Dela Paz and Jackson Yeates.
(Ross Widerburg)
Jaquez remembered taking a photograph in 2018 with seniors on this 12 months’s Camarillo workforce.
“It’s well deserved,” Garrett stated of jersey retirement. “He’s a home-grown kid who could have gone anywhere and stayed.”
Jaquez has continued to help the Scorpions with clothes donations to gamers and Camarillo employees. The household stays Camarillo residents. His sister, Gabby, performs for UCLA’s No. 1-ranked ladies’s workforce. Brother Marco is attending junior school. He has a cousin within the basketball program.
A number of of his Miami Warmth teammates made the journey to the Camarillo fitness center.
