Point guard Tyler Lewis drives as Forsyth Country Day School Furies loses to Greensboro Day School 49-40 on Feb. 17.
As the school day comes to a close in Lewisville, N.C., 15-year-old Tyler Lewis packs up his things and leaves his last class of the day at Forsyth Country Day School.
With a bag full of books attempting to weigh him down, Tyler tightens his straps and resists, walking outside where he'll meet his father, Rick Lewis, to make the daily 45-minute trip home.
Tyler climbs inside the passenger seat of his dad's car, relieved he is finally done for the day and is asked a question that he may just need to get used to.
"Where do you want to go to school, Tyler?" his father says.
While the same question was asked of Tyler just months ago while he was deciding between private or public high school, the question posed in his direction now regards a higher level of learning.
Tyler Lewis is just a freshman in high school. While it may be too early to judge his grade point average, his season averages of 12 points, 5.25 assists, 2.9 steals and just 2.2 turnovers per game on the basketball court are undeniable.
Undeniable -- at least to the likes of Virginia Tech, Auburn and UNC-Charlotte which have already offered Tyler a college education and a spot on their rosters when he graduates in 2011.
"I think it's kind of cool that all these schools are already looking at me," Tyler said.
He currently plays point guard on the Forsyth Country Day varsity basketball team, which finished its regular season with a 21-7 record; a team recently ranked No. 3 in the North Carolina Independent High School Athletic Association.
He's been playing at the varsity level since seventh grade.
Bob Gibbons, the editor and publisher of the All Star Sports Report, has covered the college basketball recruiting process for 32 years.
In his time on the job, Gibbons said, "(Tyler's) got probably the most advanced abilities I've ever seen for a kid so young and so small."
Rusty LaRue, Tyler's coach and the athletic director at Forsyth Country Day, played basketball at Wake Forest and spent several years playing on the professional level both overseas as well as in the NBA.
LaRue was a member of the Chicago Bulls when they defeated the Utah Jazz in the 1998 NBA Finals.
Needless to say, LaRue's playing career allowed him to witness some of the greatest guards in basketball history, including Michael Jordan and John Stockton, firsthand in that year's finals.
"Tyler's a smart kid and understands the game," LaRue said. "Even when he's not scoring a lot and doing some of the flashy things, he's such a solid player."
Rick Lewis described his son as a "coach on the floor. He has unbelievable basketball skill level. But the thing that really separates him from everyone else is his basketball IQ."
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this is weak
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we need him to stop blowing games
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Is this part of Seth Greenberg's recruiting scheme? Front page of the newspaper as a freshman?
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No this is part of the paper's scheme to continue boring its readers to death.
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Exactly, I think Seth is the editor and chief of the CT. Not a bad attempt in getting this kid interested a bit more. The CT has become more like the Onion than a credible news source. They post this on the front page and skimp stories college students need to be interested in like the economy.
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The CT is like the Onion? What, I wouldn't even give the CT that much credit. I would much rather read the onion then bore myself to death with the CT everyday.
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there is a 13 year old kid that lives across the street from me who is pretty interesting, he plays soccer. you should do a story about him, he can skip pretty well.
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