Adam Herrenkohl (above) and Lower Merion are outpacing expectations early on. (Photo: Josh Verlin/CoBL)
By Josh Verlin
As a sophomore, Adam Herrenkohl didn’t make the Lower Merion varsity basketball team. He was devastated.
“When I found out, I was just in shock,” he said.
“[He] was really upset about that,” Aces coach Gregg Downer recalled.
A Wynnewood resident, Herrenkohl had grown up going to Lower Merion camps since his elementary school days, becoming good friends with current classmate and teammate Owen McCabe before they turned 10. Coming back to Montgomery Avenue every summer, he spent days being coached by the likes of Justin McFadden, Jack Forrest, Steve Pendleton and others who led the Aces to Central League and District 1 championships, dreaming of the day he’d be able to follow in their footsteps.
To find out he wasn’t yet good enough to even sit on the end of the varsity bench was a wake-up call.