OT - Shaq photos in high school

[FromWayDowntown]

I knew Grimes but Vidal and Steward must have been after 1990, I kinda lost track after that.

I knew guys like Yuron White, Ed Costley and Darrin Wylie. As far as the girls, Jennifer Lennon, Lisa Acosta and Trisha Wendt I was more familiar with.

Ah, Special Ed Costley -- now there's a guy I haven't thought about in way too long. And I had just about forgotten about Yuron White.

Nice to see a Chris Doyal mention as well (from my Marshall days). He was a big part of Princeton's upset of UCLA in the tournament back about 10 years ago.

And if you're going to mention the Northside girls, Lisa Mazur at Marshall was a huge part of the Marshall girls' success back during the Lisa and Lori King era (they played in at least 3 of 4 regional finals when I was in school -- it was disappointing that they never got over that hump; they were always considered one of the best teams in the state).

A buddy of mine used to date Tricia Wendt back in those days -- there are some stories to tell of that!!

[samikeyp]

The last I heard Yuron was in Oregon working for Nike and doing rather well.

The King sisters were really good. I took pictures at one of the Marshall-Taft games with those two and Lennon and Acosta. Those ladies knew how to throw some 'bows.

I've known Tricia since 6th grade....I think she is a doctor now.

[peewee's lovechild]

At 250 pounds, O'Neal was a formidable center for his high school team.

At 350 lbs, he's just a giant black man.

[Bigzax]

That's true -- at that time (late 80's) San Antonio had several really good young basketball players around. There were the John Jay guys (including Calvin Thomas and Bo Outlaw), the East Central guys (led by Tony Terrell and Robert Keno) and a handful of other players here and there (Artie Griffin at Lee, Ski Jones at Marshall). Shaq was a part of that, but I think because he played in 2A and not in 5A, he probably was more of an after-thought in some people's minds. Obviously, not the way it should have been, but I think that might be the reason he wasn't the center of the SA hoops world at that point.

San Antonio was able, in the summer of '89, to put together a junior olympics team that beat a similar team from Bloomington, Indiana. The Bloomington team included Calbert Cheaney and Lawrence Funderburke, among others.

haven't seen Artie Griffin's name in a long time. Props. had spanish class with that brother. he was a cool cat.

[Louie Vega]

My boy Curtis Lundy was on that East Central team that won it all. I don't know if he was a starter though?

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Holy crap....speaking of The Cash twins and high school athletes in the 80's...

I am utterly embarrassed that I have never seen that before in my life.

[dawn]

I miss Reggie. I had some good times with the Judson crew. I loved the whole clark family. How Mrs.Clark ever kept food in that place with those boys kills me. Reggie and Rodger were my boys. Then Jason, Thurman, Quintin.

Keno Keno Keno...one of my favorite people until this day. Truly a my Big Brother at EC. I was probably with you at some point during those years at one of the places playing ball if you were with them all. I was always with Keno, and Charlie Z and Tim Littlefield.

Shoot I remember even back when Tony first came to East Central, I was in middle School, but he backed up Stanley Coleman. Even that squad was good. Tony's senior year though you can't forget Howie Hughes, Rusty Muenster, and Charlie Chase. I used to sit front row and br front and center with the Original ROWDY BUNCH!!! We had so much fun at games. Best times against Churchill when they would wave money at us and the ole SCOREBOARD CHANT would start since we usually were spanking teams by 30-40 points. I have a couple of photo albums full of pictures that I should try and upload one day. Of all of these guys talked about in this thread! Some of the best days of my life for sure and best friends.

[implacable44]

Reggie is in San Antonio - all of them boys are - Reggie- Rodger - Rodney is an assistant coach at Wagner .. J-dub is in San Antonio...If I am not mistaken Curry Zeno and Thurman are both down there too. I haven't talked to those guys in a minute.
Charlie used to always come up to Randolph too - he was a good egg.

I remember when we played at EC in 1990 - Richard Jones, Terrell and those folks were in the stands trying to be funny -- I was shooting free throws and they chanted , "#44 your mom's a " - so I laughed it off -- then I hit three triples back to back to back and on the last one I held my hand up after the release -- turned it over and flipped them all off while I ran back down court. Bonewitz called time out -- all the fans were leaning over the bar and throwing things - about 5 minutes later Charlie got hit and a fight broke out ... CRAZY GAME> Judson - EC 1990. I wish I still had that tape.

[Machine Gun Kelly]

Wow! What a cool thread. Reading it definitely brought back some old school names that I would have never remembered otherwise, as well as some being forgotten (in respect to late 80s and early 90s high school ballers in San Antonio).

Seeing Clark Haugh's name (from Holmes) on here was a trip. Interesting how someone here considered him to be among SA's best. I moved to San Antonio from Houston in 1991 to play basketball at Holmes and became really good friends with Clark. We even used to live a few streets over from each other and played a lot of pick up ball around N.W. San Antonio and at places like Lackland and UTSA, etc. I remember thinking his game was so dope. Everything he did he did so effortlessly. His handle was ill and he could jump out of the gym. His jumper was suspect, but it was getting better and better with time. Our senior year he didn't even play due to academics. What a waste. He always had trouble in his classes in school. I even remember during the season, and after our season was over, him not playing much. He wasn't at the normal after school hoop spots, etc. It seemed like he kinda just moved on and didn't play any longer. After I moved back to Houston after the school year was over, I never heard anything about him. I remember thinking that he had all the tools to be one of great guards to come out of San Antonio. I run into Brian Green, the ex John Jay star that played briefly for the Suns - then in almost every country on the planet overseas (whose name I'm surprised wasn't mentioned here) every so often in city league games around town, and he told that me that Clark did attempt to play at a JC, but nothing ever materialized from it.

Our point guard at Holmes that year (Moses Moreno) should receive an honorable mention here. He was very steady, albeit, very underrated.

Also, we play against Tony Terrell and his squad (with B. Green) this Monday in a city league here in San Antonio. Tony's jumper is definitely still wet. He's got beautiful mechanics on his shot. We'll have to see how many he puts in my face as opposed to how many I put in his. He's got a very nice site, too (thanks for the link). I didn't know he coached kids.

[Machine Gun Kelly]

Holy crap....speaking of The Cash twins and high school athletes in the 80's...

Whoa! I cannot believe I'd never seen that video before, either. Man, those guys sound bad. Was the Holmes football team #1 in the country in 1986? I don't remember that, but again, I wasn't there in 1986. Interesting.