 double teamed! is a 2002 disney channel original movie based on the life stories of professional basketball players heather and heidi burge. the film aired on the disney channel on january 18, 2002 and was released on vhs, which is now out of print. ==plot== twins heather and heidi burge are forced by their overly-pushy father to leave their former school and attend a different school to have better chances at college scholarships. heidi, however, tended to think that she was athletically inferior to heather, and in an attempt to get out of heather's shadow, she joined in a school play. heather and heidi are both attending the school to play volleyball rather than basketball, but the girls' basketball coach notices heather because of her height. she seizes this opportunity to play basketball to help her train for the coming volleyball season. heather meets nicky, the star of the palos verdes high school sea kings. heidi, in the meantime, learns that her father told the coach that both of the girls would play on the basketball team, despite the fact that heidi had already committed to performing in a school play. heather and heidi are both furious over the situation -- heather because she didn't want heidi on the team and heidi because she thought heather put their father up to it. heidi wanted to be independent of heather and pursue her own interests. when the twins first start playing for the sea kings, they leave a bad impression on the team by lying and implying that they are rich like many of their teammates . heather and nicky form a serious rivalry and nicky even tries to run the burge twins out of school by telling the school about the burges' living situation. they both eventually befriend nicky when they see that her father is too preoccupied with busin
2002_television_films American_basketball_films Disney_Channel_original_films English-language_films Films_about_women\'s_sports Films_directed_by_Duwayne_Dunham