.- Kansas
City’s Runnin’ Revs basketball team recently overcame the Serra All
Stars at Bishop Miege High School in Roeland Park. It was a close game,
with the team of priests and seminarians catching the win, 54 to 52
over a team of junior high and high-school players from area Catholic
schools.
Speaking with
Kansas City’s diocesan newspaper, The Leaven, Fr. Brian Schieber
compared his team to the Harlem Globetrotters. But while the goal of
the Globetrotters is entertainment, the goal of Revs is to plant the
seed of vocational possibility in the minds of young players and
spectators.
“The kids might
think that being a priest means they have to give up their hobbies and
interests,” said Fr. Schieber. “But with the Revs, they can see, ‘Wow,
priests can play basketball and do fun things.’”
Of course, the
Revs’ games, like the Globetrotters, always include some shenanigans,
like: controversial calls, including whistles blown for no particular
reason, arbitrary fouls, the substitution of a referee with someone out
of the stands and too many players on the court, anywhere from six to
30.
The games also includes some fundraising, including passing the hat at the end of the first quarter, and an auction
In the entire 11-year history of the series, the youthful Serra All Stars have never won a game against the Revs.
The Revs and the Serra All Stars will take to the court again May 1 at Hayden High School in Topeka.
Hoops for God: Priests take vocational awareness to the court
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