When rookie wide receiver Gary Jennings joins the Seattle Seahawks on the field this spring, he will be reunited with a former coach. No, it’s not a team coordinator or position coach, but rather quarterback Russell Wilson.
“He was my YMCA basketball coach when I was younger,” Jennings told reporters via conference call after he was drafted. “We went to the same school.”
Apparently, when Wilson was in high school he coached a YMCA youth basketball team that Jennings – who estimates he was in “fourth grade or less” at the time – played on.
“He was a scrapper,” Jennings cracked. “I was young at the time. He was a great basketball coach.”
Jennings also recalled playing youth basketball with Wilson’s younger sister Anna, who is now a backup guard on the Stanford women’s basketball team.
Jennings called his selection by the Seahawks “a perfect fit,” and is excited to start working with Wilson – as a peer this time.
You can listen to Jenning’s entire conference call below.
