Add “daredevil” to the words used to describe former Kansas basketball guard/second-year Stanford coach Jerod Haase.
“It was good. It was fun. It was an adrenaline rush,” the 43-year-old Haase said of rappelling down the side of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square Hotel last April as part of Outward Bound California’s annual City Skyline Challenge. It’s an event in which celebrities scaled down the side of the 46-story skyscraper to benefit youth scholarship fundraising.
“I did something like that — rock climbing — when I was young in Tahoe with my brothers and sisters. Jumping off the side of a building 40 stories high was an incredible experience.