The past struggles paved the way for moments like this.
When Lafayette Christian Academy’s Christian Bernard was tasked with playing up three years in age with Team94’s U17 AAU team, there wasn’t an immediate return on the investment. In fact, there were difficult times that occasionally knocked him out of the team’s starting lineup and onto the bench, searching for answers that would later become more evident.
The team’s coach, Amber Gregg, always believed Bernard could play at such a stage, gaining a level of confidence that’s helped catapult the point guard to meaningful minutes with the team, a starting position on his high school team, and now an opportunity to play in college…