By Chris Harlan
Published: Saturday, January 11, 2014 10:39 p.m.
There were those who thought Quintin Wirginis should skip basketball season, rest his foot and wait for college football.
He wasn’t one of them. His future coaches weren’t among them, either.
“Some (people) said: I don’t know why you want to play basketball,” said Wirginis, a Fox Chapel senior and Pitt linebacker recruit who’s had two surgeries on his right foot to repair the injury he suffered last summer.
“But Pitt’s coaches said they’d love to see me compete and said they’ll come watch,” he said.
Wirginis, described as a “determined athlete” by his basketball coach, just couldn’t sit idle any longer, he said.
The 6-foot-2, 225-pounder didn’t play basketball last winter to focus on football, but then missed his entire senior football season this fall with the Lisfranc injury. Combined, he’d gone about 12 months without a varsity game.
So, with his doctor, physical therapist and future coaches on board, Wirginis was in uniform when Fox Chapel started its basketball season.
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