Athlete Look Back: Warriors wing Harrison Barnes played the sax and sung in the choir in HS

Posted May 7, 2016
Ames is a very small town and we’d have an open gym and Coach K could be there, Coach Dawkins could be there, Coach Williams, Coach Self … Word would spread to the entire town like a wildfire and you’d have a couple hundred people coming to open gym. It was like a zoo! (USA Today)

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