The Dallas Center-Grimes basketball team in 2022 broke out and won their first ever state championship.

On that team was Cole Glasgow who scored 1,000 points and averaged 16 points per game in his career. Glasgow got the opportunity to sign to play division one basketball at the University of Missouri Kansas City and has since redshirted in his Freshman year at UMKC. Glasgow tells Raccoon Valley Sports about the transition from playing basketball in high school to now playing for UMKC’s head coach Marvin Menzies.

“It’s it’s been an adjustment getting to the Division one level, just developing your body mentally. Toughness is also a big thing. You’re practicing every day for 3 to 5 hours. It’s just mentally kind of tough, but you get used to it. You embrace the grind and it’s been going really well. We have a great coaching staff that Marvin Menzies brought in this year and he’s been really good with kind of developing everybody on the team and getting us ready for every single game. He’s also kind of just been there to help me mentally get through the redshirt year because it’s been kind of tough not being able to play. But he’s always there if I need him and he’s just a great coach to have around and he really we really appreciate him as a team.”

Glasgow says he has the goal getting better everyday with the mentality of of making 500 three pointers a day while he can’t play due to his redshirt. He is very appreciative of his time with Dallas Center-Grimes and having Joel Rankin as a coach which helped him get to this point his basketball career.

“Coach Rankin has definitely helped my game develop into like a college game. Just from a mental and fundamental standpoint. His defensive principles line up very well with (Marvin) Menzies principles so it really carries over and kind of puts me ahead of some of the guys who are freshmen here. And then just the way he coached, he coached hard. So it didn’t really surprise me. When I was coached hard in college, I was kind of just ready for it.

The UMKC Kangaroos are (6-10) on the season and they will face a tough Oral Roberts team on Saturday. The full conversation with Cole Glasgow will be featured from 6 to 7pm next Monday on our Dallas County PM Sports Page.