Stu Vetter Interesting Facts and Firsts
• Architect of Four Nationally Ranked Programs
• Montrose Christian ('99-Present)
• St. John's Prospect Hall ('97-'98)
• Harker Prep ('91-'93)
• Flint Hill ('75-'90)
• Guided 3 Separate Teams to National Championship
• Montrose Christian ('10-'11)
*ESPN Rise
• St. John's Prospect Hall ('97-'98)
*USA Today
• Flint Hill ('86-'87) *USA
Today
• 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)
• 28 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
• 35 year coaching record 838 and 105 (as of Oct. 2011)
• Washington Metro Basketball Hall of Fame Nominee (2011)
• Won the 2011 ESPN RISE National High School Tournament
"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