Kellen Tynes has been overlooked at every step of his young career. Now he's on a mission to prove the doubters wrong and change the perception of Maritime ballers. loung_s has the story:
If you were to take a drive about 15 minutes north of Saint John, N.B., you’d find yourself in the charming suburb of Rothesay, home of the historic Rothesay Netherwood School — a private boarding school renowned for its International Baccalaureate program, sprawling 200-acre campus and, most recently, its prep basketball program, led by 11th-grade guard Kellen Tynes.
“If you just judge him based on what he looks like walking down the road, no, he’s not going to stand out,” said Damian Gay, Tynes’ RNS basketball coach. “But he’s a killer and once you give him the opportunity to kill, he definitely takes advantage of it.” “Eastern Canada was just besides themselves when he wasn’t on that list,” said Gay, who is also originally from Nova Scotia and played basketball professionally in Europe and the NBLC. “I didn’t have to say anything because every basketball community from Newfoundland to New Brunswick to Nova Scotia was just absolutely appalled that he didn’t make that supposed top-24 All-Canadian roster.”
“Players from the Maritimes have been flying under the radar for years,” said St. Francis Xavier men’s basketball coach Steve Konchalski, a man who has been espousing the virtues of eastern Canadian basketball since his time playing for Acadia University in the 1960s. “We’re finally getting the recognition, I think, with our provincial teams winning gold consistently, beating the best teams in the country.
“He would be a kid that everyone suspected was gonna go somewhere else and he stayed home,” said Gay.
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