CLEVELAND — A high school basketball player is on his way to breaking the state record of three-point baskets.
Quinn Kwasniak is on track to making history at Cornerstone Christian Academy.
“Usually, I’d start on the inside and increase my range out here, so just to warm up we shoot close, yeah,” he said.
He’s made just over 340 three pointers in a three-year span, and by the end of the season is predicted to land in second place on the OHSAA list of most three pointers made during a high school career.
“Just a lot of reps I think, I think just from summers a lot and I just shoot a lot, so I gained confidence from just the way I practice and just how we practice,” he said.
Kwasniak is about 83 points away from 2,000 career points as a junior and sitting at 2,646 is Lebron James.
“I mean it’s crazy, I know I’ve worked hard for this but I can’t do it without the coaches and the teammates that I have, I mean they’re so unselfish they almost care more than me, about how much I score,” he said.
The amazing stat line came with hours, days and early mornings of hard work. During the summer, Kwasniak said he would sometimes wake up as early as 6 a.m. just to get shots up.
“Gym time here is very hard to get, so just every moment that the gym’s open, I’m just trying to get in here,” he said.
And with him along the way is his dad and head coach, Babe Kwasniak.
“I’m really hard on him, I’m tough on him,” he said. “But we also have an agreement that discipline is a form of love and he knows that I love him and I know he wants to be the absolute very best.”
Babe Kwasniak was coached by his own dad when he was a player and said he’s passing along his knowledge to the next generation with the bigger goal being winning a state title.
“Both years we lost to the eventual state champions, so we just knew it was going to be very challenging,” he said.