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There are sure to be a lot of double-takes at Splendora High School basketball games this year.
The school, in Montgomery County, Texas, boasts six sets of twins in its basketball program, which has 65 athletes in total.
“It’s odd that you have so many twins in one program,” Deitra Inkster, the school’s communications director, tells PEOPLE. “I think it’s cool but I don’t think it’s in the water. I don’t think there’s any rhyme or reason to it.”
Inkster says that the freshman joining the high school program brought the number of twin sets to six, and she notes that a parent pointed out the phenomenon.
“The Carters’ mother, she called us and goes, ‘Hey! Do you know there’s quite a few twins in the basketball program. There’s five or six,’ ” Inkster recalls. “We go, ‘No way!’ Sure enough, we started looking and there were six sets! We were surprised.”
She says the head coaches of the boys’ and girls’ team likely didn’t think much of the coincidence, because they each have twins of their own.
“There’s three [sets] that are identical, the Kecks, the Surbers and the Reyes’ are identical,” Inkster says. “It helps that both coaches are fathers of twins so they probably pick up on the uniqueness of each athlete. I think it’s really cool that they already have insight to twins. So I don’t think they have a problem telling them apart.”
Courtesy Splendora Independent School District
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Jordan and Adam saidin a statement on the school’s websitethat they’re “always being compared,” despite being the only set of girl-boy twins in the program.
“We know what each other is thinking on and off the court,” Shayla said in the school statement.
source: people.com
