Chapter 22: The Nude Basketball Video Series

Coach Strickland came up with an idea that she calculated would help the careers of both Jenny and Evelyn. Why not make a series of instructional videos for basketball featuring two naked players? It was sure to be extremely popular, be an excellent fund-raiser, and increase the public exposure of the star player and the model. It would also help to promote the naked-in-school program around the US.

Nancy and the college recruiter thought a video series was an excellent idea. The two students, because of their contracts, had no say in the matter. They would be expected to do their best as presenters and instructors. They both knew, if they did not show enthusiasm for the project, they’d be disciplined. Jenny’s contract actually had a discipline clause, and Strickland was officially Evelyn’s guardian.

The filming of the video series took place in the middle-school gym on Sundays. The university sent over a camera crew from the athletic department to make sure the videos were of the highest professional quality.

The video shoots would lasted throughout the entire basketball season and not end until after the play-offs. The goal was to have a total of 30 hours of instruction, which meant many more hours that Jenny and Eveline had to be on the court creating footage that could be edited. During the filming, there was no question that Jenny was the better player. She lead all of the demonstrations and later narrated what she was doing and the logic behind her strategies.

For the purposes of the project, Eveline was set up to lose, even though both Jenny and Coach Strickland told her to always do her best. There was no humiliation in that detail, because the point of the videos was to show how to best an opposing player. Eveline was simply performing that role for Jenny’s demonstrations.

Eveline played as well she could and, every so often, she did manage to outplay Jenny. The video producers included those moments in the instruction and the demonstrator had to explain what went wrong and how she needed to correct her strategy for the next turn.

Eveline didn’t realize it, but her game improved as a result of the endless hours of one-on-one with her team captain in front of the cameras. Towards the end of the video project she became a more challenging opponent.

Evelyn never talked during the videos: she left all the talking to her team captain. Her role was to be Jenny’s opponent while she demonstrated dodges and moves.

After the contract was signed, Coach Strickland took Eveline home and told her she was free for the rest of the day, which meant an outing with Lance.

Jenny was not nearly so lucky. Her new mentor called her into her office to explain to her that the scholarship contract had been notarized and was now legally binding. Jenny’s day-to-day training would still be under Coach Strickland, but legally she was now obligated to do whatever the university coaching staff told her to do.