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Kaelie Flores, from left, Madi Hingston and Cami Decker sign letters of intent during a signing day ceremony at McNary High School in Keizer on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015.
Madi Hingston, Kaelie Flores and Cammie Decker grew up together and have been friends for a long time.
It was appropriate that the McNary High School seniors signed their letters of intent together.
Flores signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Central Washington, Hingston signed to play basketball at Seattle Pacific and Decker signed to play golf at Concordia in a ceremony in McNary’s library Tuesday afternoon.
“They’re a couple of my best friends so I loved doing it,” Decker said.
Hingston, a 5-foot-10 combo guard, was a first-team all-Greater Valley Conference selection as a junior after averaging 12.2 points, 4.1 rebounds, 3 assists and 1.8 steals per game and was second-team all-conference as a sophomore.
She also was first-team all-conference in volleyball as a junior and second-team as a senior.
Hingston said she intends to major in business at Seattle Pacific.
“I think it has a good balance between basketball and education,” she said. “They have a really good education there with it being a private school, and it’s also a Christian school so I like that, too.
“They’re super competitive basketball-wise. They typically finish pretty high in their league and so that was a really big plus for me, I think.”
Flores was a second-team all-league conference as a junior after averaging 13 points per game and was honorable mention all-conference as a sophomore.
The 6-foot-1 post said that the coaching staff at Central Washington had been recruiting her since she was eighth grade and she liked the campus during her official visit to the school last weekend.
“I really like Ellensburg because it’s like a small town and the community basically supports athletics in Central Washington, which I appreciate a lot because that’s like my community here at McNary,” Flores said.
“It’s all very supportive and I really like the dorms that I was staying at. I like the players a lot. I stayed with a freshman and basically got the full college experience there.”
Decker placed second in the district the past two years and was third as a freshman. At the state tournament she’s placed 21st, 22nd and 34th in her three years of high school.
She never played competitive golf until her freshman year of high school – she played basketball with Flores and Hingston when she was younger – until she came to McNary for her freshman year.
“When I started out I was kind of unsure, but when I started really loving the game I was like this is something I really want to do in college,” Decker said.
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