Sun time capsule: Feb. 20, 2002

Sun sports section

Feb. 20, 2002

In a feature story titled, “There’s no end to the fight in Zeller boys,” Sun sports editor Mark Dewar profiles gritty Shawnee Mission East High School junior basketball guard Kyle Zeller, whose older brother, Matt, like Kyle, has performed as a hard-nosed and multi-sport standout for the Lancers.

Matt, two years Kyle’s senior in school, is now away on a baseball scholarship at NCAA Division I Vanderbilt University.

“It’s not as much fun without him around,” Kyle Zeller lamented not long after he scored nine critical points in what evolved into the Lancers’ first Sunflower League basketball victory of the season, a 50-45 win on Senior Night at SM South.

Kyle remembered: “At our old house, we had a concrete basketball court. This must have been three or four years ago. He got by me somehow and I tripped him. He fell down and chipped both of his front teeth.

“Now,” the younger sibling was quick to note, “they’ll be fake his whole life.”

The biggest benefactor of the older Zeller boys’ intensity just may be brother Chad Zeller, the youngest of the three Zeller children and a fifth-grader at Brookwood Elementary School, who tends to enjoy a ringside seat.

“It’s pretty fun to have two older brothers who can give you advice in sports,” Chad said. “They’re both really good, so it’s usually a good game if they play each other, pretty much.”

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