If you’re a sportswriter overlaying highschool sports activities in Southern California because the Seventies, you meet plenty of sports activities households who come and go.
It’s going to be the tip of an period for one in all my favourite households, the Kymans. Bernie was the patriarch. He coached and was athletic director at so many excessive faculties he may have worn a distinct mascot shirt on daily basis for weeks. He was at Daniel Murphy, Los Angeles, St. Bonaventure, Moorpark, Chaminade (twice), Bishop Alemany, Littlerock, Cal Lutheran and Pierce Faculty (twice).
His son, Coley, turned a star in soccer and volleyball at Reseda within the Nineteen Eighties, then the beginning quarterback at Cal State Northridge and a Corridor of Fame volleyball participant for the Matadors. Coley’s spouse, Michelle, gained a nationwide championship enjoying for UCLA’s girls’s volleyball crew. They’d two sons, Jake and Brayden.
Jake helped Santa Margarita win a Southern Part Division 1 basketball championship in 2019, then spent three years at UCLA earlier than transferring to Japanese Washington.
The final of the Kymans is Brayden, a 6-foot-7 senior at Santa Margarita and a Washington State commit who will get to play on Saturday for the primary time the place his father, mom and brother as soon as performed — UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion. Santa Margarita faces Sherman Oaks Notre Dame in a 7 p.m. basketball recreation as a part of a daylong showcase.
“As soon as I noticed it on the schedule, I used to be actually grateful and tremendous excited,” Brayden mentioned. “My brother performed there, my mother and father performed there. It’s form of a full circle second.”
His grandfather died in 2019 on the age of 78. Brayden mentioned he discovered loads from a person who all the time believed in character and dedication.
“He taught me lots and my dad, which was handed right down to me — working arduous and staying centered on what you need to do in life,” he mentioned.
His mother and father each performed professionally in volleyball, in order that they’ve been good function fashions and sounding boards for what to anticipate within the faculty journey.
“They all the time give me the most effective recommendation, whether or not it’s about restoration or a recreation,” he mentioned. “They help me.”
Santa Margarita returns 4 starters this season and commenced the season because the No. 2-ranked crew within the Southland by The Instances. Kyman has already achieved one thing few different prime gamers are doing as of late — staying from freshman season by senior season.
“It’s passed by tremendous quick,” he mentioned. “I bear in mind yesterday I used to be a freshman. I’m grateful for the expertise to be right here all 4 years. I do know that’s not as frequent now.”
After Brayden graduates, his mother and father are shifting to Montana. It permits them to drive some 5 hours to his video games in Pullman, Wash., whereas get pleasure from being away from big-city life. Simply don’t count on Brayden to hang around in Montana. He makes it clear he’s a California boy for all times.
“I believe it’s loopy,” he mentioned. “I’ve lived in the identical home [in Aliso Vijeo] my entire life. I’m going to go to for a number of days however not an entire week.”
He also can go to his brother, Jake, who’s residing in Austin, Texas, and is a filmmaker. Brayden needs to maintain enjoying basketball for so long as he can, then develop into a coach or coach.
It’s been great to see the Kymans make their mark in Southern California sports activities historical past.
Day session Saturday at Pauley Pavilion
Servite vs. Loyola, 9:30 a.m.
Orange Lutheran vs. St. Francis, 11 a.m.
Crean Lutheran vs. Campbell Corridor, 12:30 p.m.
Mater Dei vs. Crespi, 2 p.m.
Night time Session
JSerra vs. Sierra Canyon, 5:30 p.m.
Santa Margarita vs. Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, 7 p.m.
St. John Bosco vs. Harvard-Westlake, 8:30 p.m.
