Jamie Muccioli, basketball

Jamie Muccioli is a three-sport athlete at Frazier High School and excels in the classroom, as well, with a 4.1 grade-point average.
She is also active in various clubs at Frazier and does plenty of volunteer work for her church, St. John the Baptist Church.
All of the above made Muccioli an easy choice as Frazier’s female winter sports selection in the Centennial Chevrolet Scholar/Athlete Spotlight program. She is a daughter of Vicky and Nick Muccioli of Star Junction. She has an older sister and two younger brothers.
All of the above, as well, is intended to keep Muccioli from going stir crazy.
“I think what it really comes down to is that when I’m not doing something, I’m bored,” Muccioli said. “I need something to keep me going. It gets hard at times when different activities interfere with one another, but if I didn’t have anything to do I’d just be bored.”
In any case, first-year Frazier girls basketball coach Ken Poling is happy she decided to play basketball. Muccioli has been a starter for a couple of years now and has developed into the team’s leader.
“Basketball is my favorite sport, I love basketball,” Muccioli said. “We have a new coach this year, but so far it’s been going pretty well. At first, it was very different, but after a while, we’re starting to connect with everything. We work well as a team, so it really wasn’t that hard of an adjustment.”
“She scored 19 points in our victory over Charleroi the other night,” Poling said. “She’s a very good ball handler, she’s our point guard and she’s probably our best shooter, too. She shares the ball and makes everyone around her better. We may need her to score more this year.
“She is a winner and a great teammate. She gives 100 percent at practice and gives 100 percent all the time. She is just a great person to be around.”
Muccioli also plays on Frazier’s volleyball and softball teams, both of which have made the playoffs during her time. The basketball team not only made the playoffs last year, but advanced far enough to make the PIAA playoffs.
“We were kind of surprised to get that far and everyone expected us to get crushed,” Muccioli said, referring to the 47-40 loss to Clarion at Clarion University. “But we were actually close the whole way, it was one of the most exciting games.”
Muccioli hasn’t decided yet where she will go to college or what she will study once she gets there.
“I honestly have no clue,” she said. “I want to do something maybe in the medical field, but I’m not really sure about that, either.”
Whatever she chooses to study and wherever she chooses to study it, chances are good that Muccioli will be successful.
Ten years from now, Muccioli hopes to be “living on my own. I hope to be graduated from college and working in some type of career.