Five years after Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash, six members of his Mamba Academy team are wrapping up their first season of college basketball.

Kobe Bryant once played through a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder during a game against the New Orleans Pelicans. Despite the injury, he continued to play, favoring his left hand and even making a turnaround jumper with just his left hand.

Five years after Kobe Bryant's death, six members of his Mamba Academy team are finishing up their first season of college basketball, applying lessons he taught on and off the court.

In this image provided by Orange Coast College, Orange Coast College's Zoie Lamkin, one of six women from Kobe Bryant’s Mamba Academy going through their first experience with college basketball, cuts a piece of the net after defeating Cerro Coso in a college basketball game,