Jacobs: She caught glimpse of his kindness in P.E. class. Then he and his brother joined the family.
12/17/2020 12:00:00 AM | Men's Lacrosse
By Jeff Jacobs, Hearst Media
The story starts in a physical education class at Walsh Intermediate School in Branford and takes us to places where only love and sports can go.
"One day in my P.E. class in seventh grade, Tyler wasn't feeling too well, so he was sitting on the sidelines with me," Megan Basti said. "He noticed this one girl was struggling out there with a game we were playing. So he went in to help her out, helped her multiple times, trying to make her get better.
"I just thought it was really cool."
Cool enough for Megan to decide to call Tyler's parents and tell them what he did and how proud they should be of him. When she went to call, she saw "foster" next to their name.
This is how, four years ago, Tyler and his younger brother Dom came to be adopted by Megan and Jon Basti, the lacrosse coach at Sacred Heart University. It would be convenient symmetry to write this is how Tyler Basti, a senior running back/linebacker at Notre Dame-West Haven, also came to sign his national letter of intent Wednesday to play football for the Pioneers. Only great families, made whole by adoption, don't need convenient symmetry.
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