Milford Mill's Tevin Hanner headed to prep school
Before Tevin Hanner embarks on a college career at Loyola, the 6-foot-5 wing from Milford Mill will take a one-year detour to prep school.
Hanner, a Baltimore Sun second-team All-Metro selection, decided last month to spend a fifth year at The Phelps School in Malvern, Pa.
“I was OK with it,” said Hanner, who committed to the Greyhounds in March. “Of course, coming straight out of high school, you want to go right to college. But I feel like I was OK with it because there are some things I need to work out – academic-wise, athletic-wise. Another year getting better on both those parts was cool with me.”
When Hanner’s SAT came up short of NCAA qualifying standards, the Loyola coaches recommended that he look into Phelps – which Hanner said other Greyhounds commitments have attended.
Hanner visited Phelps’ campus a couple weeks ago. The Millers star said it was a rural environment with no distractions.
“It’s a small population, real private-school like,” Hanner said. “It’s different, of course. And they’ll give me the focus that I probably never would have been given had I went to a coed prep school. I’ll just focus on my goal. Being [an] all-boys [school], there’s nothing else to do but play basketball and be in my books.”
Hanner -- who averaged 15 points and eight rebounds as a senior in leading Milford Mill to its second straight Class 3A championship -- said he has no plans to reopen his recruitment. After his prep year, Hanner’s still counting on joining the Greyhounds.
“Going to Loyola, that’s still the plan,” he said. “It gives my family a chance to see me playing another four years at home. And the coaching staff -- I feel real comfortable with [Loyola coach Jimmy] Patsos and what he can do with players. I feel real comfortable with the staff right now. That’s the plan -- go to prep school and go to Loyola.”
Photo of Tevin Hanner by Steve Ruark for The Baltimore Sun / March 12, 2011
