Collin Jasper

Highland Community College men’s basketball team is putting together a strong season on the court with a 17-7 record and former Troy Trojan, Collin Jasper is making an impact off the bench for the Scotties.

Jasper earned the opportunity to continue his basketball career in college and is doing close to home at Highland and has been providing the Scotties a solid presence off the bench to help the team find success. Now in his second year with the Scotties the former Troy Trojan has played in all 24 of the teams games this season averaging five points per game, while posting 1.1 assists per game and grabbing nearly one rebound per game.

On the season Collin has hit the double figure plateau four times including a college career high 16 points against St. Mary’s JV and surpassed his season average of five points, nine times. Against Wentworth Military Academy Jasper posted a five assist game early in the season.

Collin jumped into the fold as a freshman for Highland and played in 23 games and posted 3.4 points per game, while hitting double figures for the first time in his college career against Labette Community College when he scored 12 points his freshman year.

The former Trojan enjoyed a great high school career in which he was named honorable mention All-State several times in basketball along with first team All-League, while also participating in other sports. His senior season Jasper filled the stat sheet for Troy with 13.5 points per game along with 2.6 rebounds, 2.8 assists and two steals per game.

The Highland Scotties men’s basketball teams looks to finish the regular season strong with six regular season games remaining and Jasper looks to continue to make in impact for the team as they hit the final stretch of the regular season.