Trailblazers add Kentucky/Ohio All-Star forward to 2022 recruiting class

VINCENNES, Ind. – The Vincennes University men’s basketball team continues to add to their 2022 recruiting class with the signing of six-foot-seven, 225-pound forward Victor Lado Thursday afternoon.

Lado comes to Vincennes University after leading Pleasure Ridge Park High School in Louisville to the 2022 21st District Championship.

“We are very excited about Victor,” VU Hall of Fame Head Coach Todd Franklin said. “He brings size and length. He’s got very good pop off the floor going straight up, where we can dump the ball off to him for dunks or he could block shots. He also has a developing ability to be able to pick and pop and be able to hit some threes, which gives him a unique quality as a big.”

Lado averaged 14.1 points and 7.3 rebounds per game last season for the Panthers under head coach Larry Kihnley and shot an impressive 64-percent from the field, 38-percent from three-point range and 74-percent from the free throw line.

Lado was named to the All-District and All-Region teams and was named a Kentucky/Ohio All-Star, after guiding the Panthers to a 23-7 record this past season.

Lado most recently scored a team-high 23 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in the 6th, 7th Region All-Star Game Saturday.

For his career, Lado scored 659 points and grabbed 334 rebounds over his three-year career and has averaged 13.4 points and 6.8 rebounds per game in his final two seasons at PRP.

“Victor comes from a winning program at PRP and by all accounts is supposed to be an outstanding guy,” Franklin added. “That’s what we’ve seen when we’ve dealt with him. He’s a young man that is still improving. He was an All-District, All-Region player this year in a very tough Region, probably the best Region in the state of Kentucky.”

“Then you add on that he was the leading scorer and leading rebounder in the Louisville Region All-Star game. He’s gotten much bigger in the last year; he’s gone from 205 to 225 and he’s young. He just turned 18 at the end of January and a lot of these guys coming out of high school now are 19, sometimes getting close to 20. He’s a young guy that could keep developing and we are excited about what he could become.”

“He will be able to come up and be with us over the summer, which is an added bonus. So he will get a chance to be with the guys and get some summer classes and develop and give him a much better chance of hitting the ground running in the fall.”

The Vincennes University Athletic Department is excited to welcome Victor to the 2022 Trailblazer recruiting class.

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