Chance meetings can sometimes have a major bearing on someone's life.
Case in point is Breakers and Tall Blacks basketballer Alex Pledger, who visited Raumati Beach School today courtesy of the Kapiti Kids Motivation Trust.
Some years ago now, 7ft 1" Pledger was attending Fraser High School, Hamilton, and had no interest in basketball but that would change when he was aged 16 and in the sixth form.
"I was walking to school in the morning and a guy called Doug Courtney [who coached the Waikato Pistons] stopped his car, got out and started talking to me.
"He told me the school's basketball try-outs were happening that night, which I had zero intention of going to.