His bags were all packed. It’s the moment he had been waiting for ever since he visited the campus for a second time—the trip that sealed the deal and helped him make up his mind about attending Gonzaga. Jalen Suggs was ready to head out to the Northwest for summer workouts, to officially be on campus as a student. But then both of his parents tested positive for COVID-19. The health scare pushed his arrival timeline back. And so, while top recruits at many of the country’s top programs were already on campus, getting acclimated to the next level and partaking in newly implemented and individualized strength and conditioning regimens, Suggs found himself isolated at home for what felt like forever.
“Everybody else got here like a month before I did because, first, I had to wait like an extra week and a half, two weeks, so I could get all my Invisalign stuff and get all of that figured out and
