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\u201cI\u2019m very excited because I\u2019ve never been to Costa Rica before,\u201d Blazekovic said. \u201cMy last couple of trips were some of the best times of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blazekovic has previously traveled to Spain, Portugal, Austria, Germany and Italy through basketball. He said competing overseas has helped him become tougher and adjust to a more physical style of play.<\/p>\n
As he heads into his senior year, Blazekovic hopes the experience can help him earn a college basketball scholarship.<\/p>\n
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His mother, Christin, said the opportunity is a reward for years of early-morning workouts and late-night practices in the driveway.<\/p>\n
\u201cWords can\u2019t really describe it,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s wonderful to see the work, the morning practices, the night practices in the driveway and the sacrifices that Chase made to be rewarded with a third consecutive tour.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Blazekovic, however, the biggest reward has been sharing the journey with his teammates and his mother.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not much about basketball,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s about the memories I made. I\u2019m probably going to tell my future kids about it eventually.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Basketball has taken Chase Blazekovic from hitting jump shots in his driveway to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,70431],"class_list":["post-323836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-ida-baker-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323836","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=323836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}