Longtimerhsfan

[Gunz41]

Figured you would know the answer since you are the historian.

I saw where someone had posted on Facebook that Trevor Lawrence (Clemson) dad, Jeremy, was from Greenville and went to Riverheads. Any truth to this?

 

[Gladiatorfencepatrol]

Not sure if he went there heard the same thing but I know hes related to Jaden Phillips the FB from Riverheads this year. My kids showed me pics of Trevor with some kids from Riverheads who said they were his cousins.

 

[longtimerhsfan]

Lucky for you, I do in fact know a good deal about this subject. Here is the scoop:

Trevor's dad Jeremy did indeed go to Riverheads. However he did not finish there. He played basketball (after all he is 6'7") and I remember one tournament game in particular when he almost single-handedly led the number 7 seeded (i.e. the lowest seed) Gladiators to an upset road win over # 2 Stuarts Draft. If I was at home now instead of work, I could tell you the exact year it was.

At some point, he transferred to Fishburne and graduated from there. I honestly do not recall which year in school that was. If I had to guess, I would say he was still at RHS through his junior year and only spent one year at Fishburne but don't quote me on that.

Jeremy's mother still lives in the Greenville area and needless to say has been ecstatic about Trevor's career at Clemson. She went to the game and although I have not talked to her since she returned, she texted me the word "AMAZING" after midnight Monday night.

I have tried to encourage her to do an interview with the local paper and maybe she will. As for the connection to Jaden Phillips, I am sure there is one, but I am not aware of exactly what it is.

I am "somewhat" related to Trevor and Jeremy myself, but it is such a convoluted, long connection that I should hardly claim it at all, but it does exist. I have never met Trevor but of course knew Jeremy in his days and still know the grandmother, who is course closer to my own age and therefore closer to being related to me.

 

[Gunz41]

Lucky for you, I do in fact know a good deal about this subject. Here is the scoop:

Trevor's dad Jeremy did indeed go to Riverheads. However he did not finish there. He played basketball (after all he is 6'7") and I remember one tournament game in particular when he almost single-handedly led the number 7 seeded (i.e. the lowest seed) Gladiators to an upset road win over # 2 Stuarts Draft. If I was at home now instead of work, I could tell you the exact year it was.

At some point, he transferred to Fishburne and graduated from there. I honestly do not recall which year in school that was. If I had to guess, I would say he was still at RHS through his junior year and only spent one year at Fishburne but don't quote me on that.

Jeremy's mother still lives in the Greenville area and needless to say has been ecstatic about Trevor's career at Clemson. She went to the game and although I have not talked to her since she returned, she texted me the word "AMAZING" after midnight Monday night.

I have tried to encourage her to do an interview with the local paper and maybe she will. As for the connection to Jaden Phillips, I am sure there is one, but I am not aware of exactly what it is.

I am "somewhat" related to Trevor and Jeremy myself, but it is such a convoluted, long connection that I should hardly claim it at all, but it does exist. I have never met Trevor but of course knew Jeremy in his days and still know the grandmother, who is course closer to my own age and therefore closer to being related to me.

Thanks. Fishburne sure has had themselves quite a group of alumni, even though I wouldn't consider Trevor's dad a big name alumni. But a really close friend went there and was really good friends with Vince McMahon

 

[uvacavs1]

Figured you would know the answer since you are the historian.

I saw where someone had posted on Facebook that Trevor Lawrence (Clemson) dad, Jeremy, was from Greenville and went to Riverheads. Any truth to this?

Interesting stuff. Cool connection to rural Virginia.

Trevor Lawrence is an amazing player indeed. He is also a fine Christian young man and comes from rural area I think from Georgia (small town hero).

 

[uvacavs1]

Wow- Dabo has beat Saban at his own game - makes sense, who would you rather play or work for - fun loving, good man and hard working Dabo or a business like, emotion less but hard working Saban?

I think we found out who is now winning that competition for talent - both players and coaching wise.

 

[mmqp]

Cool info! And it is wild to see Clemson just pop up out of nowhere as a powerhouse in the last few years.

 

[Gunz41]

Lucky for you, I do in fact know a good deal about this subject. Here is the scoop:

Trevor's dad Jeremy did indeed go to Riverheads. However he did not finish there. He played basketball (after all he is 6'7") and I remember one tournament game in particular when he almost single-handedly led the number 7 seeded (i.e. the lowest seed) Gladiators to an upset road win over # 2 Stuarts Draft. If I was at home now instead of work, I could tell you the exact year it was.

At some point, he transferred to Fishburne and graduated from there. I honestly do not recall which year in school that was. If I had to guess, I would say he was still at RHS through his junior year and only spent one year at Fishburne but don't quote me on that.

Jeremy's mother still lives in the Greenville area and needless to say has been ecstatic about Trevor's career at Clemson. She went to the game and although I have not talked to her since she returned, she texted me the word "AMAZING" after midnight Monday night.

I have tried to encourage her to do an interview with the local paper and maybe she will. As for the connection to Jaden Phillips, I am sure there is one, but I am not aware of exactly what it is.

I am "somewhat" related to Trevor and Jeremy myself, but it is such a convoluted, long connection that I should hardly claim it at all, but it does exist. I have never met Trevor but of course knew Jeremy in his days and still know the grandmother, who is course closer to my own age and therefore closer to being related to me.

I would venture to guess, by the age of Trevor, that it would be around the time Mr. Brock Johnson was in school, as the kids would be a couple years apart. But I could be way off, as he could have started early or late

 

[longtimerhsfan]

I did some checking and Jeremy Lawrence played one full season of varsity ball at Riverheads in 1987-88, averaging 11.6 points per game. The next year he was averaging 15.6 but transferred to Fishburne at almost exactly the midway point of the season.

 

[Gunz41]

I did some checking and Jeremy Lawrence played one full season of varsity ball at Riverheads in 1987-88, averaging 11.6 points per game. The next year he was averaging 15.6 but transferred to Fishburne at almost exactly the midway point of the season.

So I was WAY off. Guess he started late