Posted on 01/23/2013 7:24:54 AM PST by Uncle Chip
A towering high school basketball star dominating the court in the nation's capital has much more than a height advantage, a startling new report has revealed.
Junior Etou, who is originally from the Congo, is the talk of the town in Washington, DC, where he plays power forward for the Bishop O'Connell High School Knights.
But the 6'7" high school senior, who has drawn interest from several colleges with storied basketball programs, is almost legally allowed to drink.
An investigation by Deadspin.com found several different birthdays listed for Etou, both in 1992, which means he is just months away from his 21st birthday.
The site reported that Etou, whose full name is Luc Tselan Tsiene Etou, has appeared on rosters for three Congo-based teams, which list his birthday as being either June 4, 1992 or April 6, 1992.
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my son’s in college now but went to Gonzaga College prep, in the same WCAC league [Washington Catholic Athletic Conference], and i knew he’d get a kick out of this controversy.Gonzaga is often nationally ranked in basketball, but so far as i know the kids are all from the US!
I know a number of kids who went to Gonzaga...great school, horrible location!
My kid’s last year at Ireton saw them beat De Matha in
b-ball...the buzzer beater was made by a friend of his who barely made the varsity team his senior year...
one of my favorite stories to tell as an example of perseverence!
That was actually Taiwan.
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Philippines was DQ’d one year ... coach was plucking their “naughty bits” clean of hair and claiming they were under the age limit.
Thas great! My son played varsity hockey for Gonzaga and they beat DeMatha for the MAPHL championship his senior year, 2010, it was SWEET.
So cool! Any De Matha loss is sweet!
My kid played lacrosse for Ireton, long stick but we got creamed by G’zaga!
He went to Hampden Sydney but no lacrosse...
I think you might agree that the route our kids took was a great form of education...worth the BIG BUCKS!
My son plays club hockey at Syracuse now, they don’t have an NCAA men’s team, so it’s pretty competitive and it makes him happy. He’s in the IT school there. Yes, i think private Catholic education is the way to go! especially in this area where the public schools are PC to the max.
You'll notice that the sweetest memory of just about everyone in the WCAC is the one time they saw their team beat DeMatha.
I exaggerate.
But not by much.
;-)
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“So cool! Any De Matha loss is sweet!”
I didn't see your post before I posted in 27.
Thank you for making my point, LOL.
;-)
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you guys will appreciate this: I forget which class did it, but one Gonzaga class got a roadkill deer aka a STAG, painted it purple, and left it on the front steps of DeMatha.
Yes, the allegedly high-class Purple Whatsitsnames do that and the Jesuits laugh. Should us working-class Stags respond in kind, our Trinitarians read us the riot act.
But Trinitarians are actual Catholics and all.
;-)
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oh ok.
and seriously, you are portraying Gonzaga as HIGH CLASS? [and it’s EAGLEs, btw]. have you ever been there? did you perhaps confuse them with the G’town Prep Hoyas who have a golf course on their campus? Gonzaga is behind union station amongst the projects, and St Aloyisius church, on the premises, houses a men’s homeless shelter. The boys all work there doing stuff at various points. My son did laundry for the homeless there.
LOL!
“...and seriously, you are portraying Gonzaga as HIGH CLASS?”
Compared traditionally to DeMatha kids? In terms of socioeconoic status, yes. Certainly, Georgetown Prep is socioeconomically a step or two (or three) further up the ladder from either Gonzaga or DeMatha.
Location of the school isn't particularly relevant to socioeconomic class of the student body. For pete’s sake, DeMatha has been in HYATTSVILLE, boxed in by body-slamming car dealers for seventy-plus years, in the heart of PG County! LOL!
“The boys all work there doing stuff at various points. My son did laundry for the homeless there.”
Yes, well, all our kids do community service, now, don't they? The question isn't whether one’s kids work in a homeless shelter, but whether they would need to live in one. I'm reasonably sure that folks sending their kids to Gonzaga don't generally need such help (although four years of tuition certainly make parents feel like it's a viable option - even at low-rent DeMatha).
In reality, though, neither school is what it was when we were young. When I was at DeMatha, it truly was fairly working-class. Lots of Chevys and Fords in the parking lot, mostly older, mostly retrieved from salvage yards and rebuilt by the students and their dads. Now I go over there and there are plenty of kids getting dropped off from Lexuses and Cadillacs and Mercedes. But even lowly DeMatha runs $14K+ per year (to say nothing of Gonzaga’s $18.5K).
But no matter what changes, the perpetual jealousy of DeMatha’s superior sports programs is eternal in the WCAC. ;-)
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So true and having your kid go to a “private school” is the ultimate status symbol in DC...
We did it for the education and values and religious aspect.
The IT route is an interesting way to go for kids these days...
Number One and Only Son majored in history with a govt minor, ran a rather high profile campaign with no experience upon graduating (the guy is now running for VA LtGov), got screwed by said candidate after he won and is now working in....IT!....loving it and doing very well.
Who knew? Cheers...
we didn’t do it for status, but because we wanted our values reinforced at school, not challenged. Though it’s not like Catholic schools are immune from liberal teachers, but because we talk the talk and walk the walk at home, our kids know conservative from liberal and could never be swayed by a liberal teacher. He’s certainly contending with them at Syracuse. now my oldest daughter graduated from Visitation, was actually in the same class as Caroline Matthews, and she couldn’t stand the liberal bent there and so she chose the U of Dallas for college, which is a small, authentically Catholic university in Texas which teaches to the Magisterium. She loved going somewhere that shared her very conservative ideology. My younger daughter is LD and so is at a private, non-religious HS that caters to LD. She is totally into working on political campaigns though and is currently working for Cuccinelli [Gonzaga grad btw ; )]
i think of DeMatha and Gonzaga as comparable, as far as socioeconomic status. i am not from the DC area, so i can’t speak historically, i can speak from 2006-2010 when my son was there. and there was no DeMatha sports superiority in that period that i can recall : )
That picture looks like a young John Kerry, but we all know that Gomer was was a make believe military.....Oops, I almost forgot.
Wow! Love that Cuch is a Gonzaga grad,,,didn’t know. Of course you know McDonnell went to Ireton. My son interviewed with him for a job but got aced out by a kid whose parents gave a lot to his campaign...ahem, my son’s parents are poor military!
I SO agree about walking the walk, etc.; this is truly the key to parenting though the “experts” might disagree. It really is neat when your kids live on their own and onto use to practice what you have instilled in them! True satisfaction and worth all the sacrifice...
Congrats to all...let’s hope the next generation benefits as well!
(Though they may end up living in a sealed compound with the unwashed hoards laying siege outside...) how depressing....
In 1965 I managed to score tickets to the game at Cole Field House at UMD to witness DeMatha break the 71 game winning streak of NYC's Power Memorial Academy. DeMatha's ball handling and shooting held Lew Alcindor in check. Tremendous hype over Alcindor overlooked his still gawky moves. Heck of a game. Youtube has some footage. Big consistent winners always leave whiners in their wake.
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