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Our Man At Syracuse
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Berkley High grad finds a home with
renowned basketball program.
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onathan Radner could have
backed out on his plans to join
the Syracuse University basket-
ball team as a preferred walk-on after he
graduated this spring from Berkley High
School.
The Syracuse basketball program was
caught up in an athletic scandal at the
university that resulted March 5 in the
NCAA suspending legendary coach Jim
Boeheim for the first nine Atlantic Coast
Conference games this season, taking
away 12 scholarships over four years and
vacating 108 wins earned from 2004-
2012.
After the penalties were handed down,
Boeheim announced he'll retire after the
2017-2018 season.
Knowing all that — and the fact that
he'll see little, if any, playing time for the
Orange — wasn't enough to dissuade
Radner from going to Syracuse.
Now that the Orange's season is about
to begin with a game Friday, Nov. 13,
against Lehigh, Radner seems surer than
ever that Syracuse is the place for him.
"It's been a great experience he said.
"I don't expect to play, and that's fine with
me. That's not my role. I'm going to work
hard in practice and support my team
during games. It's amazing to be part of
this program:'
Going against Division I basketball
talent in practice has been an eye-opener
for the 5-foot-10 Radner.
"It's not like high school. These guys
are on a different lever he said.
Even with the NCAA penalties,
Syracuse is one of the most elite college
basketball programs in the country. The
Orange have made 28 NCAA tournament
appearances in Boeheim's 39 years as
coach and played in three national cham-
pionship games, beating Kansas in 2003.
They play in the Carrier Dome, where
crowds often fill the more than 35,000-
seat venue.
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Radner is a 2015 Jewish News High
School Athlete of the Year. He was
honored at the Michigan Jewish Sports
Foundation's Michigan Jewish Sports Hall
of Fame induction dinner last month
even though he couldn't make it.
"I'm humbled and honored to win that
award," he said.
A four-year basketball player at
Berkley and a three-time team MVP,
Radner averaged 29 points per game as
a junior and was the leading scorer in
Oakland County. He also was a four-year
tennis player for the Bears.
Before he was a basketball star at
Berkley, Radner was a standout on the
Detroit Maccabi U14 basketball team that
won a gold medal in 2011. He was on
the Detroit U16 basketball team the next
two years, and it won bronze and silver
medals.
He's scored points off the court,
too. He started a food bank at Norup
International School in Oak Park that
raised more than $10,000 and served
more than 26,000 meals and a charity
that donated hundreds of athletic shoes
to Detroit schoolchildren.
Radner did well in the classroom while
in high school, earning academic honors
from Berkley and the Oakland Activities
Association. One reason he chose to
attend Syracuse was the university's scho-
lastic offerings.
He's dealt with personal tragedy in
his young life. His father Rick Radner,
his biggest fan, died Jan. 23, three days
before his decision to attend Syracuse
was made public through a newspaper
story.
North Farmington High School ten-
nis player Griffin Mertz and Detroit
Country Day School soccer player Emily
Fisher also were named Jewish News
High School Athletes of the Year. *
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