LeROY — When LeRoy boys’ basketball coach Mark Edmundson saw the words “late bloomer” attached to senior Matt Chastain this spring, the aggravation began all over again.
For the last few years, Edmundson pleaded with college coaches to watch his uber-athletic senior, to no avail. Finally, offers began to flow in as LeRoy made a run to a Class 1A state championship.
“He’s always been an incredibly talented athlete and basketball player, but nobody would come watch him no matter how much you asked or begged, so they didn’t know about him,” Edmundson said.
“The fact that he was a secret was really everybody else’s fault, not Matt’s.