Quick turnaround for Royal

Many hoops players have brief layoff between football and basketball seasons

ROYAL CITY — Athletes playing multiple sports at a school is nothing new, but the difference at Royal is that many of its basketball players also play football, and with the Knights frequently making deep playoff runs it leaves a short turnaround between football and basketball seasons. “Almost everybody that plays basketball also plays football,” Royal boys basketball Head Coach Greg Jenks said. “Those 90% of players, we don’t see until Dec. 5., so that to me is pretty neat if I get to be coaching state champions.” Instead of seeing this as a negative, Jenks is flipping the situation into a positive.