Ilze Auzina-Luneau came to United States from Latvia, small country in Eastern Europe. Ilze was an All-American basketball player at the College of Saint Rose, 1993-1997, and graduated with a finance and international business degree in 1997. Ilze received her MBA degree from SUNY, Albany in 2002. After finishing her degree and having three girls, Ilze is performing basketball shows full-time year round.Ilze started seriously practicing basketball ballhandling tricks after graduating from college. She took after Matt, seeing the fun and enjoyment he was having with the ballhandling and entertainment shows. However, Ilze had a lot of previous basketball ballhandling experience, since back in Latvia she played on a team that performed basketball ballhandling clinics and entertainment shows since the age of nine.Ilze has performed at many half-time shows at college, NBA and WNBA games, Final Four, NBA All-Star, many school assemblies and many Christian outreach events (especially Upward Basketball leagues). Ilze performs the shows, does all the web page design, and all the marketing for the shows while taking care of her three beautifull little girls at home - so she knows a thing or two about "working hard", "balancing it all out" and "making your dreams come true". She hopes she can inspire you to never give up and go for your dreams inspite all the obstacles on the way!
"I am a New Born Christian, and I feel a strong direction from God to use my basketball skills to spread God's Word and encourage youngsters to accept Jesus as their Savior and continuously find God’s Will for your life by reading the Bible, listening to preachers, having a personal relationship with Jesus and God through prayer, and applying everything you learn from God's Word to your life every single day.Lately, God has been showing me that we need to have our priorities straight. His order of priorities for us is this - God, family, work. Not what our culture leads us to believe - work, family and then, may be, God. If we get our priorities straight, our life will be so much less stressful."You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven. (Matthew 5:14)
