By Matthew DeGeorge
Jackson Hicke was busy working in early July, so he missed the call from Cooper Mueller.
When he finally called back his Radnor boys basketball teammate, Hicke got news that brought a smile to his face. Mueller, a midfielder on Radnor’s state title-winning lacrosse team, had committed to Princeton, where Hicke had pledged his basketball future just a week earlier.
“I was like, that’s awesome,” Hicke said at practice Monday. “He could go wherever he wanted to go in the country, and I knew his family history there and it’s a great school. I’m super pumped to be able to spend another four years with him.”
Before their adventures in the Ivy League, the Radnor teammates have business to attend to on the court, a culmination years in the making. A core of Raptors connected since elementary school have grown together, some contributing to varsity since their freshman years. That group is now a nine-strong senior class, led by a quartet of college players.