A basketball bond
Dominique Redding and Kelcey Roegiers-Jensen are talented and dedicated players who have led parallel and intertwined lives. Basketball is how they met more than seven years ago, and basketball is the tether between them. Both are considered among the elite high school seniors in Florida. Redding plays for Clearwater, and Roegiers-Jensen for Boca Ciega. In August 2000, the Times introduced readers to them in the first installment of a periodic series.

PART 9: A bond beyond
PART 8: Finally ready to go
PART 7: Will they go their separate ways?
PART 6: Mom comes through in clutch
PART 5: Ball taking new bounces for best friends
PART 4: Success at the Summitt
PART 3: Looking back, taking stock
PART 2: Going in different directions
PART 1: A basketball bond

[Times photo: Carrie Pratt]
Clearwater forward Dominique Redding and Boca Ciega guard Kelcey Roegiers-Jensen have received thousands of letters from schools interested in recruiting them.