Mater Dei retires athletes’ numbers
April 16th, 2010, 4:59 pm · · posted by DAN ALBANO, ocvarsity.com
Mater Dei coach Gary McKnight speaks about Gary Franklin, center, and Tyler Lamb. Photo courtesy of Mater Dei High
Mater Dei retired the athletic numbers of basketball players Tyler Lamb and Gary Franklin and water polo player Alex Wherry on Friday.
Lamb, The Register’s 2009-10 player of the year, had his No. 0 retired during an on-campus rally that included Monarchs boys basketball coach Gary McKnight and water polo coach Chris Segesman.
Lamb signed with UCLA in November.
The Cal-bound Franklin had his No. 4 jersey retired.
Wherry, who wore cap No. 2, became the first aquatics athlete to be inducted into Mater Dei’s hall of fame. The UCLA signee was the Register’s player of the year in 2009.
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they keep recuiting they gonna run out of numbers
Is this some kind of a joke?? retiring HS players is a joke first of all but retiring players who aren’t even considered the very top players in the high school game. Tyler Lamb is a very good prospect but is not a top 20 guy in the enitre nation and Garry Franklin is barely in the top 100. As far as the water polo kid. LOL… He is barely a top 5 water polo recruit in a very WEAK year… None of them set any records of note or led Mater Dei to anything of note. What’s this really about??
Master are you kidding me!! alex wherry leads MD to two straight cif titles and is back to back player of the year awards in division 2 AND is county player of the year. SO is that leading him to nothing?? Tyler lamb and franklin led them to the title this year how is that nothing??
OCsports MD lost state with 5 D1 players starting so I dont think its much of an accomplishment and last year they couldnt even win cif…at least taylor king broke some records and won state, so I could see why his number would be retired
footballfan1… referring back to masters question saying they didn’t lead MD to anything of note. CIF championships is something to note on. now maybe they were not the best team in the state of course but did help them. franklin has helped MD get to the title game in cif every year i think(only one win yes i know) but great to get there. And to wherry who is not even a top 5 player. i need to disagree the kid can play everywhere and he has been to the championship game 3 times with 2 wins. HE and coach Segesman have made water polo at the school known for something…. water polo was a joke back in the day there.
Mater Dei just makes themselves out to be a huge deal, bottomline Mater Dei is and always will be just another private school who also got by lit up by SERVITE this year in football!!
What has happened in each football game Servite and Mater Dei have met in, for the last 20 years (excluding this year) ? I would rather have that domination then one petty win.
We lit you up
Why what happened the last 20 years?
All that matters was this year, the present
A lot of kids have led their high school to city or county tittles. It doesn’t mean anything. This is just mater dei being mater dei.
Something stinks
Al Banks was all league in three sports
Retire his numbers
Why can’t you just be happy for these kids?
It is what it is….a great recruiting ploy!
Actually you have to be named Cif Player of the Year to have your jersey retired for hoops at MD.Lamb and Franklin where co-POY for Div 1AA.
Alex is a great player and an even better kid but does this mean no one in the future of MD will wear cap 2? That would be pretty short sighted considering the dynasty is just started.
It would be funny if alex was a goalie and then be number 1. MD wouldn’t be able to have a goalie….except for 1A. Alex was a good d2 player. I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t make the cut because let’s face it, he won’t get preferential treatment. Same thing for the Walter boys. It’s like a kid who is home schooled and always gets straight As.
When he goes to an actual school and doesn’t get straight As or Bs…he gets a nervous breakdown. It’s good to fail and learn life’s lessons.
MD Water Polo is Divison II not I with absolutely no competition especially when kids from all over come to private school and compete with inexperienced players.
get your facts straight before you say anything. Sure MD polo is in division two, but the entire season was filled with games against D1 teams and MD did extremely well against the top D1 teams. also another FYI the main games played for their D2 title, including the final game was against another private school so dont try and act like you know anything about MD water polo because you obviously have no idea
and md lost to d1 teams. there are other d1 players that are better and don’t have to play low level league and cif games. many high school star players do not turn out to be star college players. sometimes it works the other way around. wherry will have to fend for himself and won’t have a daddy or a coach that promotes only him on the team. its what life is like in the outside word. hows his brother doin
at ucla.
OH YEAH??? All the people dissing MD water polo get some speedos on and go do it yourself. And your kids go to some DI polo team that hasn’t won anything in the past 10 years and you are whining about recruiting?? You are just mad about them recruiting because Mater Dei is gonna beat you all next year. Really? Do you guys know that MD is moving to DI next year? That all of the seniors that are graduating this year were not recruited! That 4 of those seniors are off to play college polo? How is this a product of inexperienced players? This is a product of superior coaching of Olympian Chris Segesman. As a football player who is friends with all of the water polo guys I know the intense rigorous training and scrimmaging those Spartan athletes endure and no one should put the legacy of the MD water polo dynasty to shame. Alex is one of the most modest, encouraging, talented, spirited players I have ever met. He can single handedly take over a game. He will be a star on the UCLA team.
To say anyone will be a star is foolish as college water polo is different than high school water polo. Alex’s father was the coach for the regency boys’ club team and showed a tremedous amount of preferential treatment to his kids. If Alex was worthy of POY then why wasn’t he at least named to the 92U Boys Southern California All-Region Team, ODP Championship last weekend? His father was even sitting next to the Head Coach (who wasn’t Segesman) during the weekend and that didn’t even do the trick. Guess life is a bit different when you step outside the world of Mater Dei. Sometimes it’s nice to know that those that are talented are rewarded for what they do and not who they are related to, know or buy.
SERVITE football lit you up this year clown
Wow, feel the love in here. Congratulations to the young men. It is quite the accomplishment just to make the MD Basketball Team , let alone lead it. I have watched alot of Polo and Wherry is a man. Let’s see, I don’t remember playing my sport at a high D1 level, nor do I remember taking my team to any CIF or State Championship game. Maybe I should be jealous, or maybe I should just respect the players and the game.
Yeah Mater Dei has a Hall of Fame. Mama Walters transfers to MD in hopes her boys will be there
Shouldn’t mater dei, have a hall fame for kids we recruited away from their home schools and kids that showed up rode the coat tails of some other super talented kid who wasnt a freshmen at mater dei? kind of ridiculous. You have to be a STATE player of the year to get your number retired at OVHS.
That snide comment seems to be suggesting an air of superiority in relation to athletics. (comparing Ocean View to Mater Dei) What a joke.. look at the rich and successful tradition ALL mater dei athletics have had, and you will see a history riddle with many C.I.F. and State championships…(Mater Dei was ranked 2nd last year in top sports schools in the nation by espn) To compare the two athletic programs is akin comparing the OVHS band to the London Symphony Orchestra!
In response to your point, a school’s standards for retiring a jersey should not be met with scorn… if you gave your children 10 dollars a week for allowance, would you yell at and chastise a dad who gave his children 50 dollars a week? I hope not, parenting (just as retiring a jersey) is a subjective issue and it is left up the the interpretation of the individual. To suggest there is an inflation of “retired” jerseys at Mater Dei is also an absurd notion, MDHS has been blessed with a many generations of phenomenal athletes, and this is the tradition that seems fit to serve as a memorial to athletic prestige.
Insinuating these kids are riding “coat tails” of “more athletic transfers” is also insulting. The PLAYERS make the choice to transfer to Mater Dei, (most likely because of the talent and charisma of Gary Mcknight) the school administration does not bait them with money or put a gun to their heads. Why scorn the kids? If one wants to go to an athletic program with higher probabilities of winning championships, they should be able to, without insult. Everyone does not have the “Barry Sanders” mentality, and he even admits regrets of staying with the losing team for all those years.