Dreams from Her Father

Chris Ballard

February 04, 2008

TERRELL (TERRAY) ROGERS would have been proud last Friday night. His 17-year-old daughter, Tierra, was back on the basketball court for Sacred Heart Cathedral of San Francisco, the No. 1 girls' team in the nation. Had he been there, Terray would have been impossible to miss. A big man with a bigger voice, he ruled the front row of the bleachers, cheering the Irish, advising the refs and, always, offering the same encouragement to Tierra. "Take her!" Terray would shout when she got the ball on the wing. "Take her!" Sure, his enthusiasm rubbed some the wrong way, but no one doubted this: He loved that girl.