ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014\u00a0The St. Pete High Green Devils are the top ranked girls basketball team in Class 5A-Region 3. And one of its youngest players is a big reason why.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Shaw Summer plays a lot older than she actually is. At six feet, she literally stands out on the court. But then when her skills are on display, that\u2019s when she really shines.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
\u00a0The St. Pete Green Devils are the top ranked girls basketball team in Class 5A-Region 3
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\u00a0The Green Devils are led by sophomore Shaw Summer
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\u00a0Shaw leads the team in nearly every statistical category, including scoring, rebounds, assists and steals<\/p>\n
\u201cI like the ability to compete and make new friendships and be a leader on the court,\u201d Shaw said.<\/p>\n
In helping St. Pete rise to the top, Shaw leads her team in nearly every statistical category, including scoring, rebounds, assists and steals. Basically, she can do it all on the court.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I have a very strong work ethic and I\u2019m willing to get better,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd that I can be a leader, which I wasn\u2019t really a leader before.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIQ, very smart player. She\u2019s obviously long, tall player, that helps,\u201d head coach Chris Hanlon said. \u201cAnd she can play inside and outside and good defender as well. Just kind of all around.\u201d<\/p>\n
St. Pete has a few seniors, including starter Quay Curry. Coupled with it\u2019s the youth movement, led by Shaw, the Green Devils are poised for big things this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re all willing to compete and we sacrifice things for each other,\u201d Shaw said. \u201cWe play together as a team and I feel like we\u2019re all super young, so we can grow together and build our chemistry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014\u00a0The St. Pete High Green Devils are the top ranked girls basketball team in Class…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1238,1748,1236,3745,13013,115,110,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,835],"class_list":["post-111200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-sports","tag-athlete-of-the-week","tag-florida-sports","tag-high-school-sports","tag-katherine-smith","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}