Stephanie La Rosa and Katherine Loecke have taken the stats for every home boys basketball game since their freshman year. 

Being part of the team required La Rosa to write down the stats of the players as Loecke ran the scoreboard. Both girls spent many hours watching the team play and working for the school as their job was a paid position.

Both La Rosa and Loecke learned to love what they did for the team and what they watched.

Loecke felt the games in the upper gym were especially challenging.

“The scoreboard is not very good,” Loecke said. “We had to count for the time-outs because the timer was broken.”

“I remember having to (verbally) count down the last 10 seconds of a game so they knew it was ending,” La Rosa said.

Being in a stressful position was part of the job, especially during overtime. 

“When the game goes to overtime, the clock has to start and stop a lot,” Loecke said. 

Being in charge of running the scoreboard, which included the timer, made Loecke’s job extremely important during those last few minutes of the game.

“Many timeouts are taken during that time,” La Rosa said. “The crowd gets very into it. It can be very intense.”

La Rosa and Loecke are the second people in their family to do the stats. Their older brothers, Chris La Rosa and Sam Loecke, who both graduated in 2020, also ran the stats for the basketball team during their four years of high school.

“It’s a legacy thing,” Loecke said.

As the basketball season comes to an end, so does their stat-taking career.

“I am kind of sad that it’s done, but it is okay,” Loecke said. “The refs said we were good at it. I think they will miss us next year.”