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Northland High School (Columbus, OH)

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Northland High School boys basktball players dream big
By Bill Wells
January 02, 2010

Northland High School boys basketball coach James ?Satch? Sullinger lets his players dream.

But dreaming is one thing, and trying to reach a dream is another. For Sullinger, if his players from Columbus, Ohio, are willing to do the work, the 60-year-old former college coach will do whatever it takes to help those players reach their dreams.

?I?ve never coached a kid through my vision or my dreams,? said Sullinger, in his 10th season at Northland, which will make its first trip to Springfield for the Hoophall Classic in mid-January.

?I try to support the kid with their vision and their dreams of where they want to go. If a kid wants to go as far as he can get, then I will coach that kid in that manner. All kids who play high school basketball don?t necessarily go to college and play ball. But if it?s their dream, they have to be willing to participate in that dream.

?It?s almost like a math class. If a kid really wants to go to college and major in math, you?re going to take him a little bit further than the kid who?s just there to get the credit.?

One player for Northland with dreams is Jared Sullinger, the coach?s son. He has big dreams, and why not? The 6-foot-9, 260-pound senior power forward is regarded as one of the top high school players in the country. He?s signed and sealed to play for Ohio State University.

?He?s all about what you want,? Jared Sullinger said of his father and coach. ?If you tell him you want to go D1, he?s going to push you and make phone calls and tell college coaches about you. He?s going to push you as far as you want to go. If you don?t want to go far, he?s not going to push you, but he?ll still try to get everything out of you that he can.

?He?s been coaching us to get everything out of what we want. He?s been coaching us to live our dream, not his dream.?
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Boys basketball: Northland faces national power
Friday, January 15, 2010
By Steve Blackledge
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

By the time the Northland boys basketball team boards a plane headed to Springfield, Mass., for its latest national-exposure event, it already will have played three games this week.

The NBA-style schedule, caused in part by snow cancellations, offered little time for the Vikings (7-0) to prepare for their showdown Saturday at 4 p.m. against Oak Hill Academy of Mouth of Wilson, Va.

The ESPN-promoted Hall of Fame Classic at Springfield College is the featured game of a four-day card in the Spalding Hoopball Classic, including nationally recognized programs from 18 states.
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Cincinnati.Com | Cincinnati Enquirer | High School Sports Blog

Columbus Northland has risen to No. 1 in the latest USA Today Super 25 boys' basketball poll.

Northland is the reigning Ohio Division I champion and, with top players Jared Sullinger and J.D. Weatherspoon still around, is the obvious favorite again this year.

What do you think, Cincinnati fans? Which local team(s) could challenge Northland at the state tournament in March?
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In the two nationally televised games against Findlay Prep and Oak Hill, I came away really impressed with Northland's 6'8" sophmore Jalen Robinson....This kid's gonna be a beast by the time he is a senior(he is a beast already)....Bob Huggins has got himself a good one(assuming he signs with WVU since that is where he verballed to)...
 
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Northland 88, Bishop Luers (Ind.) 67
Boys basketball: Northland puts on show with its up-tempo style
Sunday, January 24, 2010
By Steve Blackledge
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Comparing victories over opponents from Nevada, Virginia and Indiana is akin to the apples-and-oranges argument.

But let's try to put in perspective what the Northland boys basketball team has achieved this season:

The Vikings have defeated the defending national champion, Findlay Prep of Henderson, Nev.; the 2009 runner-up, Oak Hill Academy of Mouth of Wilson, Va.; and now a defending Indiana champion in Bishop Luers of Fort Wayne.

Northland's first two signature victories were grind-it-out, defensive matchups decided in the final seconds. But last night's 88-67 rout of Bishop Luers in the Ohio Play-By-Play Classic in Value City Arena was the kind that left the estimated crowd of 6,000 oohing and aahing with every dazzling play.
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