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DDN: Archdeacon: Parents’ scouting report on WSU guard Calvin was on the money

Trey Calvin with Mom and Dad

Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News

The best scouting report ever done on Treyvon “Trey” Calvin began just after he was born.

“My mom was holding him six hours after he came into this world and he was holding his head up and looking around the room at everyone,” remembered Sylvester Calvin, Trey’s dad. “He was very aware and we were like, ‘Oh my, this is very uncommon.’”

“He was 6 pounds 9 ounces, the smallest of my five babies when he was born,” said Raquel Calvin, Trey’s mom. “But right off we said, ‘Look at his hands!’

“He had such big hands. When he’d lay there, his arms would be out and his hands would just kind of hang there. His grandfather would play with them and he said, ‘Oh yeah, he’s going to be a basketball player.”

“At seven months or so he already was walking,” Sylvester added. “Right from the start, we kind of knew he was different. He was going to be special.”

Now, 21 years later, the basketball coaches in the Horizon League are saying the same thing about Wright State’s 6-foot senior guard. He has shown himself to be special in so many ways: