Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gigi pose with current Chicago Sky guard Hailey Van Lith and Van Lith’s high school coach Brent Darnell in 2020. Photo courtesy of Instagram

Just down the road from where Sky guard Hailey Van Lith went to high school is the town of Leavenworth, Washington.

Designed as a German village, it's a popular tourist destination. So if basketball didn't work out, there was always a future slinging beers during Oktoberfest, in theory.

“I was so busy in the winters growing up, because that's like AAU season, that I didn't even get to enjoy like, the fake Christmas, the whole North Pole vibe they've got going on up there,” Van Lith said. “But yeah, Leavenworth is definitely a legendary place, for sure.”

Cashmere High School, where Van Lith played, has a current enroll

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