Kreisher learned plenty of lessons playing sports at Edgewood
Looking back on his senior year of athletics at Edgewood High School, Riley Kreisher sees how it might be seen as a year of frustration, a time of “almost-was” and “might-have-been. ” Considering where he’s wound up 21 years later, that might not be such a bad thing, though. The Warriors almost won Northeastern Conference championships in all three of the sports Kreisher played.
In basketball, Edgewood entered the final game of the season with a game against Harvey to decide the title. The Red Raiders defeated them easily behind star Morgan Lewis. Earlier, the Warriors had battled it out in golf with Geneva, only to fall short.
Then, in the spring, a baseball game against Lakeside at the end of the season went extra innings before Edgewood fell. “I guess who I am was shaped by losing,” said Kreisher, a 2005 Edgewood graduate who will be inducted into the Ashtabula County Basketball Foundation Hall of Fame during its banquet on April 12. Kreisher started playing basketball at an early age, taking on his dad in a game of toy hoops.
His dad, who was his first coach, played on his knees. He wouldn’t let Riley win unless he earned it. “My dad wouldn’t let me win anything and I do the same thing with my boys,” Kreisher said.
Being able to lose gracefully and most importantly learn from it is a big part of life. “I always tell my boys, you learn the most from losing, because that means there’s someone better than you. ” Kreisher recalls going to watch his dad playing in a league and playing in a youth league at the YMCA in Ashtabula.
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