Rudder’s Jaquise Martin has blossomed with Rangers [Video]

If there is footage from 2008-09 and 2009-10 Texas Tech women’s basketball team games, there’s a slim chance you’ll see a very young Jaquise Martin in it.

As a toddler, he watched his mom, Tilmila Martin, play basketball four years in college, starting at Kilgore College for a year, then Blinn for another before transferring to Tech.

Tilmila, now known as Tilmila Martin-Clayton, teaches physical education and is a basketball and track coach at Stephen F. Austin Middle School in Bryan.

“He was right beside me like my parents could bring him to my games and everything,” Martin-Clayton said.

Although basketball isn’t the route he’s taking, his own journey has brought him to the next level.

The Tulsa football commitment has helped …