Stu Vetter Facts and Firsts
• Architect of Four Nationally Ranked Programs
• Montrose Christian ('99-Present)
• St. John's Prospect Hall ('93-'98)
• Harker Prep ('91-'93)
• Flint Hill ('75-'90)
• Twice Named National Coach of the Year: USA Today ( ’85-’86 &
’97-’98)
• The only coach to guide four High School teams to the USA Today’s
Top 10
• Coach Vetter has had a McDonalds All-American at all four High
Schools.
• Ranked in the USA Today’ Super Top 25 at some point of the season
every year
(since the poll began in 1982-83 season).
• Coach Vetter is the only coach in High School history to win
National Championships at two different schools (Flint Hill –
1986-87 & St Johns Prospect Hall – 1997-98)
• 27 Straight Nationally Ranked Teams in USA Today
• Holds the Longest Winning Streak in the Washington, D.C. Area - 59
games (’85-’88)
• Winning coach in famous Montrose vs. Oak Hill basketball game
(March 4th, 2006)
• Game featured in "The Great Book of
Washington DC Sports List" as one of the
two greatest high school
games in Washington Area history
• Written by Andy Polin and Leonard
Shapiro
• Coached Over 100 Division I Players
• 1st Coach to have 2 McDonalds All-Americans on the same team
(Aaron Bain &
George Lynch at Flint Hill)
• Played and won the First Nationally Televised High School Game
(vs. Pine Bluff, AR)
• On ESPN, Dec. 8th 1987
• Commentators Dick Vital, John
Sanders and Chris Fowler
• 33 year coaching record 798 and 98 (as of Oct. 2009)
"In Vetter's program, kids are prepared for college
as well as any other program in the country. They learn
responsibility, discipline; and they identify with team goals.
And the discipline is not just on the court but off it as well.
His kids are not just good players, but gentlemen."
- Coach Mike Krzyzewski
- Duke University
- US Olympic Coach