Just Hoop Senior Basketball Team

Our Athletes of the week are Castro Valley resident Judy Heisler and her Senior Women’s Basketball Team, Just Hoop. The team, whose members are all over age 50, won a silver medal at the National Senior Games in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in July. This competition included over 10,000 athletes in 20 different sports. Just Hoop also won a gold medal at the San Diego Senior Games this September (pictured). Players on the team are, from left, Judy Heisler, Liz Gouchon, Renee Morales, Christy Daugherty, and Marlena Henderson. Judy graduated from San Lorenzo High in 1990, and Christy and Renee in 1988. Judy says she has played sports her entire life. “Whatever the season was, that’s what I played,” she says.