index.html

Ohio JUCO center signs LOI with Nix

Greg LeSage's path to UWGB start near Ft. Knox, Kentucky.　 He was a 6-8 late bloomer at Elizabethtown High School.　 He redshirted at Georgetown, Kentucky, a D2 program.　 Despite being an honor role student in high school his year at Georgetown had him registering a 1.9 GPA

He headed to Ohio has his mom had moved and enrolled at Columbus State.　 Grades not basketball took center stage.　　 That was the summer of 2007.

A chance pick up game changed his plans to move back to the Bluegrass State.

Columbus State coach Pat Carlisle,　 saw the potential that day.　 "I said to myself, 'This kid looks like a Division I basketball player."　 For the past two seasons LeSage has been the Cougars starting center.

That first season he averaged nearly a double, double.　 The team finished in second place nationally.　 The Cougars were the best JUCO team in Ohio this past season and made it to the national tournament again.　 LeSage average 13.8 points and nearly 8 rebounds in 08-09.

A list that included Horizon league rivals Cleveland State, Illinois-Chicago and Youngstown State were after LeSage.　 In addition he was courted by Oral Roberts, Marshall, Central Michigan, The Citadel, Long Island, Marshall, and St. Bonaventure.

The edge in the recruiting battle may have been LeSage's family history.　 His dad, a former career military man, is from Green Bay and has moved back to his hometown. There a few few dozen LeSage relatives living in the area.

What kind of player is Green Bay getting?　 Coach Carlisle puts it this way, "Day in and day out, he's probably our hardest worker.　 He is the kind of kid you would want your son to grow up to be."

RETURN TO HOME PAGE