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Coming to PSA

Tim Quashie, who play at Putnam Science Academy in September, fires from long range in a game last season for Long Island Lutheran. Courtesy photo.

 

 

By Ron P. Coderre

Following a successful season that led it to the National Prep School Championships, Putnam Science Academy is reloading it program in preparation for the upcoming season.  The Mustangs recently announced the signing of its fourth recruit in the past month.

Tim Quashie a left-handed guard from New York indicated last week he’ll be attending Putnam Science Academy in September.  Quashie, who played his high school ball at Long Island Lutheran, missed his senior season due to a torn ACL, which disabled him for the entire season.

Quashie transferred to Long Island Lutheran, the same school that sent former Mustang Shawn Lawton to PSA, as a sophomore.  As a 10th grader he averaged eight points a game as the first man off the bench for Lutheran, which captured the New York Class A Championship in 2012.  The next year Quashie’s average jumped to 14 points a contest as he led Lutheran to the Class AA tournament where they lost in the title game.

Prior to playing for Lutheran, Quashie attended Westbury High School, where as a 9th grader he was the Nassau County A1 conference player of the year.  At Westbury he led the team to the conference championship, averaging 23 points per game.  In three years of varsity competition Quashie scored more than 850 points.

“We’re looking forward to having Tim Quashie join our program.  All reports indicate he’s a team player who can shoot, handle and distribute the ball.  He not only helps to complete our backcourt, he adds much needed versatility to our program,” said coach Tom Espinosa of his latest recruit.

Quashie joins recruits Kealen Ives and the Robinson twins, Andrew and Aaron, and will team with returning players, juniors Mamadou Diarra and Ruslan Badalov and seniors Hacibey Catalbasoglu and Burak Eraslan.