Woodrow Wilson senior Deshawn Jagwan, a standout basketball player, dies

Woodrow Wilson senior Deshawn Jagwan died about the weekend, Dallas ISD confirmed on Tuesday.

Jagwan, a standout basketball player at Woodrow Wilson, is remembered as a mentor and brother to his teammates by head mentor Corey Johnson.

“He’s a kid with high power,” Johnson informed The Dallas Morning News on Wednesday. “He’s the kind of child you cannot keep mad at. His electrical power is just so contagious. [He has] the utmost self confidence in himself, he’s genuinely a coach pleaser. Whatever you requested him to do, he would do.”

Jagwan was a very first-crew District 11-5A honoree for Woodrow Wilson. According to TXRecruited on Twitter, had just received an offer to participate in higher education basketball for Park College-Gilbert in Arizona.

When Johnson deemed Jagwan — who hit two sport-successful buzzer-beater photographs versus South Oak Cliff and Hillcrest this year — Woodrow Wilson’s ideal player, his off-the-courtroom morals stood out much more than his basketball techniques.

“Deshawn is certainly identified as a seriously great basketball player all over listed here,” Johnson said. “But it is extra about his electrical power when he walks in a place and how he dealt with men and women.”

In accordance to Johnson, Jagwan stepped in and attended Plano’s promenade for the reason that just one college student was stood up by a date.

“’Mom, I cannot let her go to the prom by herself,’” Jagwan informed his mom, according to Johnson.

And, Johnson reported, if he was with anyone who averted a human being who was homeless, Jagwan “would be mad for two hours.”

“‘Y’all act like you just didn’t see that homeless man or woman again there? That’s not all right,’” Johnson reported, quoting Jagwan.

Johnson, a previous assistant at Duncanville who still left for Woodrow Wilson in 2020, claimed he was in Orlando for an AAU basketball match more than the weekend when he acquired of Jagwan’s demise. He organized a Zoom phone with Woodrow Wilson’s basketball staff on Sunday night to share the news.

“I advised them, ‘Look at the self esteem that he walked close to with,’” Johnson said. “Obviously a good deal of youngsters struggle with assurance and staying protected and who they are as a human being, and Deshawn did not struggle with that at all, he was 100% confident. All his teachers liked him, he was not worried to speak, and you could place him in a home and he was heading to say what he had to say.”

A prayer vigil will be held Wednesday outside the house of Woodrow Wilson’s gymnasium at 7:30 p.m, according to Dallas ISD.

“I’m just blessed to be capable to coach him and have him for two many years,” Johnson explained. “I despise that I wasn’t a element of his existence for for a longer time.”

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