This Maverik is now Twin Valley’s Top Gun
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With the return of a record-setting running back, one of the league’s top receivers, and a couple of all-league linemen Twin Valley entered the season with enough strong pieces to take a run at a district championship.
The biggest question came at quarterback, where it needed to replace four-year starter Evan Myers. Or was it?
“That’s not a concern,” Twin Valley coach Brett Myers said about having such a young quarterback, and about replacing someone who had thrown 47 career touchdown passes and for 1,000 yards in four straight seasons.
What Myers knew, and most of us didn’t at the time, is that he had the right guy ready and waiting to pilot the Raiders: Maverik Foster.
It’s tough to build a championship blueprint around a sophomore and first-quarter starter at quarterback but Myers had no doubt the Raiders’ new Top Gun would be able to handle the job.
“Putting the ball in his hands, (we know) he’s going to distribute it well,” Myers said. “(All year long) he plays sports where he’s making decisions with the ball in his hands. He’s a point guard in basketball and a middie in lacrosse. He did the right things in all those sports. He makes the right choices.”
Foster has been practically flawless in his first season as Twin Valley’s quarterback. He’s completed better than 73 percent of his passes and hasn’t thrown an interception.
The Raiders are No. 1 in the Lancaster-Lebanon League in total offense. They’re the second-highest scoring team in the state. They’re ranked No. 1 in the state in Class 4A. And they’re unbeaten as they open the District 3 Tournament Friday at home against sixth-seeded West Perry.
Watch the 5-11, 175-pound Foster zip the ball around the practice field for a few minutes and it’s easy to forget he’s a 10th-grader. He seems to know exactly where to go with the ball and has the ability to put it in a spot where his receiver can catch it and make a play.
His passing accuracy to date is off the charts. He’s the first Berks quarterback in more than 20 years to navigate his way through the regular season without being picked off. (He has an interception as a defensive back, so that makes him a plus-1 in personal turnover differential, an almost impossible number for a quarterback to achieve.)
Foster has completed a league-best 73.6 percent of his passes, well above the Berks record of 69.4 set just last year by Berks Catholic’s Zach Suski.
As confident as he was in Foster, Brett Myers admits he didn’t see that coming. His son Evan, running the same offense and throwing to many of the same skills players, completed 61.4 percent last season.
“Maverik has been very efficient and very productive,” Myers said. “His talent is not just his arm, (it’s) his brain; he’s very similar to the last kid we had.”
Foster has had the luxury of playing behind a big offensive line, throwing to last year’s Section 4 Receiver of the Year Ben Grundy, and handing the ball off to the league’s best tailback tandem, Drew Engle and Lucas Myers.
He would be the first to tell you those guys get the credit for his success.
“Our O-line, they’ve helped me get my job done, and all the other weapons I have out there,” Foster said. “They all make my job really easy.”
The Raiders have overmatched just about everyone they’ve gotten on the field with; that’s made Foster’s transition go more smoothly. Twin Valley’s had one real challenge to date, at Wyomissing, and Foster played above his pay grade in that one: He completed 6-of-8 passes and the offensive didn’t turn the ball over.
“He had a couple crucial plays,” Brett Myers said after that 28-6 win, “a third-and-6 (where he threw) a 10-yard curl right on the money. That kept us moving.”
Maverik, as they say, comes from good stock. His mom Alison, the athletic director at Twin Valley, played college field hockey. His dad Steve, an assistant coach with the Raiders, played college football. Older sister Natali plays field hockey at Drexel. Brother Gavan, a freshman, is Twin Valley’s backup quarterback.
Foster was an instant success in lacrosse, too. As a freshman he broke into the lineup and played a key role in Twin Valley’s run to the PIAA Class 2A semifinals. He scored 15 goals and had six assists, including one in a win over Devon Prep – the first state playoff win in program history.
He later played for the nationally ranked Freedom Lacrosse Club.
“He has tremendous upside,” said Twin Valley lacrosse coach Decker Doupe. “His ceiling is extremely high. He’s a phenomenal athlete.”
“Maverik’s explosive and has one of top vertical leaps on our team,” Myers said. “With his athletic ability and football IQ it helps to have him on the field (as a defensive back, too). He’s one of those kids, (he could play) pretty much any sport. If he decided to play baseball he’d be a middle infielder or center fielder. If there’s a ball to play with he’s out on the field, competing and having fun.”
Myers loves to have multi-sport athletes in his huddle; it’s been one of the foundations of the program he’s built at Twin Valley. Athletes used to competing year-round are able to adapt to changing conditions and are used to performing in tight games. Foster is a perfect example of that.
“There’s a lot of things from other sports that carry over into football that you don’t only get from practicing football,” Foster said. “It helps me build relationships and helps our team chemistry.”
Foster hasn’t had many bad plays this season; when he does he’s learned to get over them and move on to the next play. He said his older teammates have helped him with that.
“Go series by series, (and) just do your responsibilities,” he said. “Just work as a team and it’ll all work out.”
