Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
If Wright State’s Cole Gentry wants to break Jesse Deister’s program record of 47 consecutive free throws — or Deister’s marks for single-season and career foul shooting — he probably should keep his distance from the former Raider great.
Asked how he felt about the junior point guard reaching 39 in a row and perhaps overtaking him on a road trip this weekend, Deister said, “I’m going to have to break his arm.”
He also pointed out how he’s co-owner of the Centerville-based Ellie Home Caring Inc., which meets the needs of senior citizens, and that Gentry should take that into consideration:
“Now that it’s my business to respect the elderly, I think he needs to do the same thing.”
Deister, who turns 40 in April, was jesting, of course. He doesn’t seem to mind a bit that his all-time streak is being threatened — perhaps because it wasn’t a big deal to him when he did it, and he didn’t know it still stood until being contacted this week by media-relations director Bob Noss.
He set the record during his two years with the Raiders from 2000-02 after transferring from Cedarville University.
