Almost before it started, budding Towson star Jason Gibson’s basketball career was possibly ending.
He was 8 years old playing AAU ball in his native Severna Park, Md., and the stress — thanks mostly to loud adults — was almost more than he could take. Thankfully, none of those adults were his parents. The Gibsons — Jason Sr. and Amber — knew basketball was supposed to be fun.
“When I was younger, I had bad anxiety at those games,” Gibson recalled. “I guess it was such a new environment that it was scary. My parents pushed me not to give up and that made me work harder until I overcame it.”
Now Gibson is scaring Towson opponents with a beautiful, innate game that looks like he has loved every bit of it all his life. Actually, he has, after overcoming those early doubts. Now he’s a curly-haired, baby-faced freshman assassin for the Tigers, who are 14-11 overall and 8-5 in the hardnosed Colonial Athletic Association.
