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 Los Alamitos basketball's Ryan Kusch is the boys scholar-athlete of the week for Dec. 8.
Los Alamitos basketball’s Ryan Kusch is the boys scholar-athlete of the week for Dec. 8.
Damian Calhoun. Sports Newsroom Assistant.

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RYAN KUSCH

LOS ALAMITOS

BASKETBALL

GPA: 4.38

Kusch earned second team all-Sunset League honors last season for the Griffins and he is a captain this season. He’s a starting forward. He’s enrolled in Multivariable Calculus, via Cypress College, AP Physics, AP English Literature, AP Spanish, Economics and Drawing/Painting. Kusch is a National Merit Scholarship Commended Student and a National Honor Society Member. He also tutors his fellow classmates in math, chemistry and physics. He scored a 2320 on the SAT with perfect scores in math and writing. He volunteers each year at the Seal Beach 10K and at The Youth Center Christmas tree lot in Los Alamtios. He’s also a member of the Los Alamitos Basketball Players booster Club, working with youth basketball players in the area and he referees National Junior Basketball games in Los Alamitos. He plans on majoring in engineering and is applying to Ivy League schools and others in Pac-12 and SCIAC.