Stand Up And Speak Up

Jeermal “Mr. Me Too” Sylvester is the epitome of a winner. He overcame fatherlessness, poverty, and the pain of a broken home to become one of the more accomplished basketball players in the state of Indiana. After a four-year professional basketball career, Jeermal continues to make a significant impact on young athletes and disadvantaged youth by sharing his testimony of overcoming obstacles and his motivational message to ‘rise through the fire.’ Jeermal was sent from Chicago, Illinois by his Mom to live with relatives in South Bend, Indiana as a small child. He learned to channel his bottled-up feelings of abandonment and resentment into basketball. He quickly became one of the top high school basketball players in Indiana. He broke records, earned a spot on the 1990 Indiana All-Star team, and accepted a full athletic scholarship to Ball State – a Division I university. Jeermal continued to excel at the collegiate level. He was expected to play in the NBA. However, during his senior season, he was involve