STEVEN VASTURIA ’13
BY SUSIE COOK
Vasturia is unassuming by nature but may be the best basketball player in school history.
e’ve all seen him do it: Lebron James, aware of his own display, carefully takes the bottle of powder into his hands, only to make the chalk go poof in a white cloud, the fans awhirl.
STEVEN VASTURIA ’13 It is hard to imagine the Prep’s basketball “king”, Prep senior Steve Vasturia, ever considering such a pre-game show. As the senior made his way towards the all-time scoring mark held by Reggie Redding at 1,566 points, it’s the manner in which Vasturia puts on the show – unaffectedly – that we will remember most. Without airs, without flash, without even a grimace, Vasturia’s way is mystifyingly unglamorous.
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Yet, we’re all awhirl. “It’s just the way he is,” says assistant coach Dov Grohsgal who, in his fifthyear next to Speedy Morris, has moved with Vasturia every step of his way into Prep history. “It’s not a practiced skill. He is that even-keeled, and so his teammates look to him for that consistency. And his evenness probably scares opponents in a sense because they can’t rattle him.” Before it all began, there was Vasturia’s freshman classmate Mike Garrucio walking past the Kelly Fieldhouse one day in September 2009. Inside he saw a kid shooting hoops with star Joe Nardi ’10. “I didn’t know who he (Vasturia) was, but I could tell he was really good,” says Garrucio,
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THE PREP NEWS SPRING 2013