Darryce Moore Boardman girls

Two-time Federal League Player of the Year Darryce Moore has plenty of positive memories to chose from when she reflects on her four-year career playing center for the Boardman High girls basketball team.

One of the major ones was defeating Howland in the regional final and playing in the Division I state tournament in 2008.

“Going down to Columbus with that team was great,” said Moore who has a scholarship to Ohio State University. “Our team that year ... that was our best.

Moore said Spartans coach Ron Moschella “knows how to motivate you. It was my junior year when I started listening past the yelling.”

Playing this season with Doriyon Glass, who has recovered from three ACL surgeries, was special. “She’s such an inspiration. Having her back was great; it was just like playing again in seventh and eighth grade.”

Moore said her college choice was between Ohio State and Michigan State, where former Boardman teammate Courtney Schiffauer has a scholarship.

Also going to Ohio State will be her brother J.T., a Boardman senior who has a football scholarship. “We’re best friends. Having him go to the same college as me is awesome because not a lot of brothers and sisters can do that.”

Moore also credited her mom, Claudette, “for a lot of support. Since seventh grade, we’ve been doing a lot of traveling for AAU. She’s taken me to Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri ... to where college coaches could get a look at me.”

After graduation, Moore will move to Columbus in mid-June to take summer courses and begin training for Jim Foster’s Buckeyes team. She’s undecided on a major, but forensic science is a possibility.

“I don’t know what role I’ll have” but the power forward spot is a possibility. “I’ll definitely have to get into better shape and I’ll have to shoot more and dribble more, get some ball-handling skills down.”