Everyone has their ambitions and aspirations but are they willing to do the work for it? For Paint Branch eleventh-grader Ryan Bobb, hard work is no obstacle. One of the big goals for Ryan this year is once again making the PB basketball team and averaging at least 15 points per game, Basketball is a sport that he has treasured deeply since starting to play the game at the age of 5 years old. In fact, for Ryan, basketball is one of his motivations for waking up in the morning. 

In addition to basketball, Ryan is inspired by his family and plans to get good grades and achieve his goals. One of those goals is to maintain honor roll throughout his junior year. 

When it comes to his future, Ryan’s aspiration is to work in the NBA alongside the best of the best. If he were to achieve this well-respected goal, he wishes to work for his hometown team, the Washington Wizards where his long time idol John Wall played.

Speaking of John Wall, for most people, meeting their idol is just a dream, a thing they fantasize about but never achieve. However, that is not the case for Ryan who entered and won a contest to be a Monumental Sports Wizards junior reporter, which he entered by creating a video with his father. Winning this contest led to Ryan having a chance to meet his idol, John Wall. In fact, he not only met him, he had the chance to interview him. 

In fact, this experience is in part why he took journalism and continues into his third year with the program. It helped shape Ryan into a person who sees it as maybe something he can do in the future.