After a so-so junior season for he and the Red Devils, Vance Lewis became more of a team player, Kinnick improved as a team and captured its first Far East Division I Tournament title in six years. (Dave Ornauer)
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan – He knew he had talent. But aside from scoring a lot of points, Vance Lewis said it took some time before he realized what he needed to put a complete game together.
“I wasn’t a good team player. I was selfish at times,” said Lewis, a senior guard for Nile C. Kinnick’s boys basketball team. “I was hard-headed. I didn’t listen to what (coach Robert Stovall) said.”
In his junior year, one game might find him in the lineup, another might find him on the bench. The Red Devils finished with a so-so 12-8 overall record and a fifth-place finish among six teams in the 2023 Far East Division I Tournament on Okinawa.
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