Article posted: 3/7/2013 4:00 PM

A little push from sis went a long way for Streamwood's Cerda

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Streamwood senior Jessica Cerda is the honorary co-captain of the 2012-13 Daily Herald Fox Valley all-area girls basketball team.

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Streamwood girls basketball coach George Rosner might want to think about writing a thank-you letter to Natalie Cerda. When Natalie's younger sister Jessica was a little girl, Jessica loved soccer. Her dad, Jamie, played soccer, so it was only natural that a young Jessica would play soccer. "It was my favorite thing," Jessica says. But Natalie Cerda played basketball. "I'd go to her games and I'd start dribbling the ball around and it was so much fun," Jessica recalled. And the rest, as they say, is history

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