{"id":35842,"date":"2017-11-27T12:37:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T17:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=35842"},"modified":"2017-11-27T12:37:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T17:37:30","slug":"royals-athlete-week-isaiah-harris-winn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/royals-athlete-week-isaiah-harris-winn\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Athlete of the Week: Isaiah Harris-Winn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emuroyals.com\/sports\/mbkb\/2017-18\/bios\/harris-winn_isaiah_kxau\"><strong>Isaiah Harris-Winn<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Frederick, Md.\/St. Maria Goretti) got a running start to what promises to be a very exciting senior season for the Eastern Mennonite University men\u2019s basketball player.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In last weekend\u2019s tournament at Messiah College, Harris-Winn averaged 15.5 points and 10.5 rebounds over the course of the two games. In the championship game against Messiah he earned his first double-double since his sophomore season with 19 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI felt we played well,\u201d he said. \u201cThere were key plays in the championship game that we didn\u2019t make as a team, there were some stops we didn\u2019t make as a team, but I think we\u2019re getting better defensively, which was our focus this year. I think we\u2019re getting better, but I think we still have work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After a difficult junior season, Harris-Winn put in a lot of work to make sure his last year at EMU is a success.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI just got in the gym over the summer, made sure I worked hard,\u201d he said. \u201cLast year, my junior year, I went through a little bit of a slump the whole year, so this year I wanted to focus on not thinking about that too much, increasing my mental toughness, which is something I really needed to work on, making sure I got back to the roots of how I was successful my sophomore year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Head coach Kirby Dean has noticed the difference.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIsaiah has made as big of a jump between his junior and senior years as any kid I\u2019ve coached,\u201d Dean said. \u201cAs a senior he has that \u2018sense of urgency\u2019 to find ways to be successful and now, not only is he scoring points for us, but he is also doing the little things that help a team win like playing good defense and rebounding the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Harris-Winn has high hopes for the team this year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cMy goals for the team is to win the conference and then go to the NCAA Tournament, and then hopefully make a run there,\u201d he said. \u201cI want us to be better defensively and offensively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He also loves the camaraderie with his team and wants to continue to build the team chemistry.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cEach year I\u2019ve been around a funny group of people,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that\u2019s something I look forward to each year. When the season starts we\u2019re all around each other so much, we can joke around. I can relate to them. So I think the brotherhood aspect is something I really like that EMU has in the basketball program. The family. I like the family environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When Harris-Winn was in middle school he played three different sports: football, basketball and baseball. Eventually he dropped the other two sports; basketball is the one he kept coming back to.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBasketball is the sport I was best at,\u201d he said. \u201cI stuck with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A business administration major, Harris-Winn hopes to own his own store someday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cMy friend and I have been talking about starting a store where we buy vintage clothes &#8212; go thrifting basically. Then we\u2019re going to resell those clothes for a higher price to people. So, like, finding old streetwear, you know, for two dollars or something like that and then selling it for ten or fifteen dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For now, however,\u00a0Harris-Winn will focus on making the most of his last season at EMU.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis is my senior year,\u201d he said, \u201cso I\u2019m realizing that every game is my last here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After seeing how Harris-Winn has approached the opening weeks of the season, Dean expects to see great things from him.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI think the sky is the limit for his senior year, if he continues with this type of mentality for the entire year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah Harris-Winn\u00a0(Frederick, Md.\/St. Maria Goretti) got a running start to what promises to be a very exciting senior season for the Eastern Mennonite University men\u2019s basketball player. 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