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FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Guard Robbie Berwick will join the Colorado State men’s basketball program, head coach Larry Eustachy announced today. He will transfer in from Florida State following two years with that program after having Colorado State as one of his final four choices coming out of high school.
“We are extremely thrilled that Robbie is joining the program,” Eustachy said. “We recruited him out of high school and thought he could be a top-five player in the league before he graduated. Coach (Steve) Barnes did a great job recruiting him when he was in high school, so that relationship was a big reason we were able to talk to Robbie and that he decided to come here this time. He has struggled at Florida State through numerous injuries, and I think this is a great place for a new start for him. We have high hopes that is past him and he could end up being one of the top players in the league.”
Berwick missed all of the 2015-16 season due to injury. As a true freshman, the Atascadero, Calif., native played in all 33 games, getting the starting nod in three of them. He averaged 2.4 points, 1.0 rebounds, 0.7 assists and 10.9 minutes per contest for the season. He scored in double figures twice during his first collegiate season with 11 points in his debut against Manhattan and a career-best 13 points in a victory over Virginia Tech. He finished the year with the third-most 3-pointers with 19. He hit a pair of 3-pointers and dished out four assists in Florida State’s victory over UCF early in the 2014-15 season.
One of the most decorated student-athletes in the history of San Luis Obispo County in California, Berwick was a four-year starter at the guard position, earning All-State honors his senior year. He averaged 15.9 points, 6.5 assists and 4.5 rebounds in his four seasons as a member of the Greyhounds varsity basketball team, totaling better than 1,750 career points and 500 assists. He was named the North County Player of the Year and named the Most Valuable Player of the PAC 7 conference as a senior while also picking his second straight county Player of the Year by the Tribune News of San Luis Obispo County.
In his senior year at Atascadero, Berwick averaged a career-high 19.6 points, a career-high 4.6 assists and 4.8 rebounds in leading the Greyhounds to the quarterfinals of the 2014 CIF Southern Section state playoffs, a 24-6 overall record and a perfect league mark of 12-0. He led the PAC 7 in assists and was fifth in scoring during his senior season.
A two-sport standout at Atascadero, he garnered First Team Grid/Hoopers recognition by CalHiSports.com while also earning All-State honors in both football and basketball during his senior season and recognition as one of the top five all-stars in the sports of football and basketball. He was one of only five Central California Coast players named to the All-KSBY TV All-Star teams in both basketball and football. As the quarterback for the Atascadero football team, Berwick set the school record for touchdown passes with 32 and was named the North County Player of the Year by the Tribune News as a senior in 2013. Berwick led Atascadero to an 8-2 record on the football field and the PAC 7 regular season championship during the fall of 2013, establishing school records for passing touchdowns, passing yards and completions.
The Rams are coming off their most-successful four-year period in school history, all under Eustachy, as the squad won 87 games, with the previous high being 81 in a four-year span. Heading into his fifth year in Fort Collins, Eustachy already holds the school’s top winning percentage at .644 (87-48), is fourth in career wins at CSU, having passed Boyd Grant (81-46) during the 2015-16 season, and has had his teams earn postseason invitations in three of his four years. Eustachy’s squads also have won better than 80 percent of their games at Moby Arena and have been 39-31 (.557) in Mountain West regular season action, compared to 67-123 (.353) in all previous years combined.