Niverville High School’s Logan Beer was recently named to Basketball Manitoba’s graduating all-star basketball team, which picked the top Grade 12 high school players over the course of this season from A, AA, and AAA schools in Manitoba.
On April 15, Beer played in the graduating all-star game that was held at the Sport Manitoba Courts in Winnipeg.
Beer first started playing club basketball in Winnipeg in Grade Two and has played school basketball since Grade Seven.
Beer’s recent season for the Niverville Panthers, which just wrapped up, went well by his account. The Varsity boys team won the Zone 13 playoffs and made it to the provincial qualifiers. However, once there, they came up short in qualifying for provincials after consecutive losses to Transcona and Westwood.
“I was definitely surprised to be selected to the graduating all-star team,” says Logan Beer. “But it was also pretty cool because both of my older siblings were also selected to the graduating all-star game.”
At the game on Saturday, there were players selected from A, AA, and AAA schools from across Manitoba, many of whom Beer had played against over the last four years of high school.
“The game itself was fun and very high scoring,” says Beer. “Our team was down by three points at the very end, and my coach put me in to try and make a three-pointer to try and tie it up, because I managed to make a couple of three-pointers earlier in the game. I had a chance to hit the game-tying shot, but it rimmed in and out just prior to the buzzer.”
Beer has an interest in potentially continuing his basketball at the university level after he graduates from Niverville High School in June.
“I would love to play post-secondary basketball somewhere, but I’m really not sure where that would be. We’ll see if something works out.”
