Justin Ragsdale is following his one season as a Silverdale Baptist Academy basketball player with a scholarship to continue his career at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Ill.
Ragsdale averaged 14 points and 4.7 assists a game and shot 36 percent from 3-point range as a 6-foot-2 point guard for the Seahawks. He played for Tennessee Temple Academy until that school closed.
Brandon Nicol, who played for two Big 12 championship teams at Iowa State, just finished his first season as coach of Trinity Christian’s Trolls and liked Ragsdale’s up-tempo game, the player related.
Ragsdale said he definitely was looking for a Christian college and also considered Covenant, Maryville, Milligan and Emmanuel. He liked the TCC coaching staff.
“Coach Nicol is young and he has a drive. He seems really dedicated,” Ragsdale said. “And he cares, not just about basketball.”