ST FRANCIS

Player Profiles - Newcomers
Mack Brown
#20
Guard • 5-10 • Freshman • Romeoville, Ill. (Plainfield East)
In High School: Two-year letter winner at Plainfield East High School … Played for coach Branden
Adkins ... Named Plainfield East’s Most Improved Player in 2011 and Ironman of the Year the
following season … Helped lead his team to a 27-2 mark as a senior … Averaged 10 points and
four assists per game his senior year.
Other: Born 2/5/94 … Plans to study marketing.
Brian Edwards
Forward • 6-2 • Freshman • Joliet, Ill. (Joliet West)
#33
In High School: Three-year letter winner at Joliet West High School … Played for coach Luke
Yaklich … All-Southwest Suburban Conference/Blue Division in 2012 … Served as team captain
his senior year for a Tiger team that finished 16-7 … Also competed in football and volleyball,
playing the latter sport all four years and earning all-conference status in 2012 … National English
Honor Society member … Named Joliet West’s Student of the Month in September 2011.
Other: Born 2/23/94 … Plans to major in radiology.
Tautvydas Kairys
#30
Forward • 6-5 • Junior • Siauliai, Lithuania (Cape Fear, N.C.)
In College: Played the past two seasons at Eastern Wyoming College … Averaged 6.5 points per
game his freshman year and 7.5 points as a sophomore.
In High School: McDonald’s All-America nominee playing for coach Loren Baysden at Cape Fear
High School … Two-time team MVP … Averaged 26.5 points, 8.0 rebounds and 6.5 assists per
game during his senior year … Conference MVP and all-area selection as a senior … Garnered allstate
and all-conference recognition after a junior campaign in which he averaged 18.0 points,
6.0 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game … Participated in the 2008 North Carolina Challenge All-
Star Game.
Other: Born 9/19/89 … Plans to study finance … Native of Lithuania.
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