NCC’s Intramural basketball spring league has finally begun. There are eight teams playing this spring, including The Kings, Team Rahr, Team Melting Pot, Team Bollywood, Team MN Dynasty, Team NCC, Team Outlaws and Team Shake n’ Bake.
This semester, a new face impressing players is a girl on the MN Dynasty named Jasai Ferrucho. Ferrucho’s opponents, mostly guys, have found they should not take it easy on her. Ferrucho is good, really good.

“It’s fun playing with the guys,” said Ferrucho. “They may be more athletic and stronger than me, but I think I have earned their respect. It’s hard enough getting respect as a basketball player, but it’s even harder being a girl too.”

Ferrucho is from Colombia, where she started playing basketball when she was 12. She moved to Lubbock, Texas nine years ago with her family and became so good at basketball she was awarded an athletic scholarship to play at Colorado State University, a Div. 1 College in the Big 12 Conference.

After graduating from CSU with a degree in Economics, Ferrucho moved with her friend to Minnesota and decided to enroll at NCC to help her get her master’s degree. After hearing about the intramural basketball league, Ferrucho registered and found that there is a big difference between CSU college basketball and NCC intramural basketball.

“At Colorado State, it was more organized and efficient with the girls,” said Ferrucho. “Here at NCC with the guys it’s more athletic and fast paced, like organized street ball. I like both styles, they are challenging in their own way.”
Jasai Ferrucho and the rest of the intramural teams are playing every Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in the NCC Gymnasium. The intramural tournament begins April 3, where the competition is single elimination.

Ferrucho confidently predicted, “We [MN Dynasty] have a good all around team, so I believe we can make it to the championship game if we play the way we are capable of playing. I guess we will have to wait and see.”