Jeremiah Armstead moved around so much that he wasn't even eligible to play high school basketball until his senior year.He never lost faith through all the nights his family slept in their car when they couldn't get a hotel room or into a shelter, especially that first night at a beach parking lot after leaving Philadelphia for California only to learn their new home had disappeared.
They stayed in a hotel for a couple weeks, then wound up in a shelter in Santa Monica. His mother drove him to school, a 40-minute trip one way so she waited in a parking lot for classes to wrap up to save gas and money. Shelter time limits also forced them to move around, making even practicing basketball a challenge for a family-focused first on survival. They finally got some stability for his senior year, living in an apartment during his first semester and into the second.