Vic Andrews

Biography

Vic was left abandoned as a young boy: whether his parents did not want him or whether they were unable to raise him is anybody’s guess. All anyone knows is of the kindly garbage truck driver who found him huddling by a dumpster on a cold winter morning as he was doing an alley run. Feeling responsible for the kid, the driver turned him to Child Services, who immediately dropped Vic into the foster care system.

From there, Vic was tossed about between families. Some were kindly, others were less so, but none were overly abusive. However, the amount of shifts in his family life left him incredibly lonely much of the time: the shifts took him all over, and he never stayed in the same place for very long. Thus, Vic was a fairly isolated boy.

The only home he ever truly felt was in the basketball courts, places he would frequent along with the basketball that stood as the last token of his birth parents. He rarely talked to other kids there, but whenever he would go there and shoot a few hoops, he’d find relief from his crushing loneliness within the fence. Since he would spend much of his waking hours working at the basketball court, he began to take it seriously.

It was so that, in middle school, a coach happened to pass by a court, seeing the young mutt play on the court. The coach was not incredibly impressed, but he felt Vic had potential. Thus, he recommended the boy try out for the basketball team. Much to his surprise, Vic got into the team. As he began to play in this different dynamic, Vic finally found a sense of home that he had been sorely lacking for much of his life up until that point.

That stint with that foster family was one of his longer ones, and it was perhaps the longest one that Vic stayed with: he finished out middle school, working under the personal tutelage of his old middle school coach. By the time high school began, Vic was no longer so antisocial as to be cut off from everyone: he began to socialize more, he joined the basketball team of his own volition, and eventually he worked his way to a scholarship at Pensacola Pred and Mech.

When it came time to decide what to do, though, Vic would always defer to basketball: it was what he’d always gone back to when times were rough, and it had been the one constant across his whole life. Thus, declaring for the FBA Draft at the end of a manual trade program was a logical conclusion. He hopes to bring hope to other foster kids, to share his story with them as he goes through the League.