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Spokesman.com: Choosing basketball paid off for Shadle’s Boese

by Greg Lee | Spokesman.com

Going into his freshman year, Brett Boese thought his eventual path to college would be baseball.

A glance and an injury, though, steered the Shadle Park senior toward basketball. It started the spring of his freshman year and was confirmed by a baseball injury a few months later that summer.

Boese was with the baseball team practicing in Shadle's auxiliary gym when he noticed some older Shadle athletes playing basketball in the main gym.

"That was the day I knew I wanted to be a basketball player," Boese said. "We were practicing, but I kept peeking over and seeing Anthony Brown, Robby Douglas, Jake Rodgers and Taylor Pettersen playing."

Boese (pronounced "base") walked away from baseball for good after attending the Baseball Northwest Showcase camp in Portland in August.

"I felt pain in my throwing elbow and I when I came home I went to the doctor," Boese said.

The doctor discovered Boese had a rare bone disease – osteochronditis dissecans. It's a condition in which bone can die because of lack of blood circulation.

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