Jack gives back

After her unparalleled success with the National University Lady Bulldogs, winning a record string of UAAP championships, Jack Danielle Animam was ready to give up basketball and get a corporate job.

- By BILL VELASCO

MALOLOS, Bulacan - After her unparalleled success with the National University Lady Bulldogs, winning a record string of UAAP championships, Jack Danielle Animam was ready to give up basketball and get a corporate job. The 6'5" center had nowhere else to go, until a school in Taiwan asked her to play there. This led to her getting attention overseas, and making history as the first Filipino basketball player, male or female, to play professionally in Europe and later China. Last Saturday, she went back to her roots and held the first Jack Animam Camp in Malolos, on an open court that had her name painted into it.

"It's my journey. I look back at where I was 13 years ago. Now that I've had all this experience, I want to give back and pay it forward."