Colorado High School Activities Association

Ronnie Shavlik
Denver East

Not many people will recognize the name Ronnie Shavlik, but he may have been the greatest high school player to come from Colorado. A unanimous all-conference and all-state player for three years in 1950, 1951 and 1952, Shavlik’s teams won two straight state titles. He then went on to play at North Carolina State where he earned All-America recognition and became a first round draft pick of the New York Knickerbockers. By the time he finished college he would hold a place in nearly every category in the ACC record book. He held the scoring records at NCSU until David Thompson broke them nearly two and a half decades later. He still holds the school rebounding record