Mikel Lancit, a junior member of the Upper Moreland High School girls’ basketball team, and her father, Rashim, were featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer today for the long-term bond they share with basketball.

Rashim is currently the head girls’ basketball coach at Academy of the New Church and has been coaching Mikel since she was in fourth grade. It was around that time that he started holding local workouts for girls in the Upper Moreland and Cheltenham school districts, the article said.

This summer will be the duo’s last hurrah of AAU ball before Mikel starts her senior season.

“Last one for us all,” said Lancit, who played high school basketball at Central High School and then Olney High School in the Philadelphia Public League before attending Temple University.

Now in his 23rd year as coach, he helped out with the Police Athletic League in Philadelphia and the eighth grade and JV teams at Germantown Academy before landing his current job in 2020-21.

He also coached his son Rashim, who graduated from Upper Moreland in 2022.

“Even when I’m in the winters when I’m playing high school, he’s still always there for me,” Mikel said. “In the summers, it’s just even more. It’s really cool because he can kind of tell what I’m thinking.”

According to the Inquirer, Mikel’s Golden Bears teammates Marie Meyers and Lillian Hansen both play for Rashim’s “iamBasketball” AAU team, which stands for Intelligence + Aptitude & Mechanics Training.

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