(La Porte County, IN) - Super-sized excitement will be on the menu for a local high school girls’ basketball player tonight.

 

Ashlynn Shade, a senior at La Lumiere School, will be presented with her McDonalds All American jersey.

 

Head Coach Matt Marvin said McDonalds officials will give her the jersey during a presentation between the first and second quarters of tonight’s game against Capital Home School.

 

Shade said she was pumped when recently selected to one of the two national squads.  It was a long time dream for her to be chosen as a McDonald’s All American.

 

“I think I called my brother after school. My twin brother.  We’re super close,” she said.

 

Shade said her parents and other family members and friends then contacted and congratulated her.

 

“It was super cool,” she said.

 

Shade transferred from Nobleville after leading her team to the Indiana state title last season. She said her decision to attend the college prep school in northern La Porte County was made to help her adjust academically and athletically to life at the University of Connecticut in the fall. Shade has committed to the school, which has one of the top girls’ collegiate basketball programs in the nation.

 

She’s averaging about 24 points a game this season for La Lumiere, which upgraded its program to play high level competition mostly from Indiana and Illinois a few years ago.