After The Whistle: Chesapeake’s La’Shaun Moody

WYE MILLS, Md. – “I’m just kid who grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I know we don’t get a lot of exposure”

La’Shaun Moody is an eastern shore native and a freshman for Chesapeake College men’s basketball.

On why he chose the Skipjacks to begin his college career, Moody said, “When I came here and worked out, I seen that there was a lot that I needed to improve. So, it’s like they brought out what I needed to improve. Compared to other schools, they just showed me what I was already good at.”

As a smaller guard, Moody said he’s always relied on his speed and IQ. But the former bayside north player of the year is putting in work to expand his game: “Right now we’re practicing every day, but on my own coming up here, because it’s a 40 minute drive from my house, I’m coming up here whenever I can, just to at least hit the weight room or get in a gym and get some shots up…In high school you wouldn’t see me shoot the ball a lot, but now you see, it just comes out of my hand like it was natural.”

In high school Moody starred on the Cambridge-South Dorchester team that won the 2024 Bayside Championship. The vikings played their way to Maryland’s 1A title game – but fell short of a bringing home the state championship. “I never want to have that feeling again, and I know a few of my teammates do as well, because they’ve been in that same position and we talk about it here and there whenever we can. So I definitely know that it fuels them as well as it fuels me.”

With the Chesapeake College Skipjacks chasing a regional championship and berth in the NJCAA National Tournament, Moody and his team are playing with extra motivation, though, Moody has always felt like he’s got something to prove.

“The other little kids out there that feel as though, ‘Oh, I can’t do it, I can’t make it.’ I just want to show them like, you know, it is a way still, always. Nothing can really stop you.”