TAKE 2: TERPS LAND SIBLINGS
May 10 began like any other Mother’s Day. Julian Reese intended on giving his mother, Angel S. Reese, a present she knew was coming. She just didn’t think it would arrive so soon.
The St. Frances boys basketball standout called for his mom to come downstairs in their Randallstown home and gave her a black sweatshirt. The front showed a picture of Julian and his older sister, also named Angel, on a visit to the University of Maryland. On the back was the word “Committed.”
“I was a little lost at first,” his mother said.
Julian’s commitment, the first for the Maryland men’s basketball team in the Class of 2021, wasn’t just special for his mother. It ensured that he and his sister, two Baltimore-area products, would continue to share the same court as they have throughout the years.
“It was very competitive. We used to always go at it, wouldn’t finish any [oneone-one] games because we ended up fighting. We still go at it in workouts sometimes, but our trainer doesn’t usually let us go at it as much, because we’re older.”
“He kind of got a sneak peek of what college campuses look like,” his mother said.
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