Fieler is the 3rd or 4th Parkersburg South HS kid to go to FGCU. Back when I was the local TV sports talking head in PKB, they had a pretty good WV Class AAA team with two low D1 recruits at the guard slots. One ended up with Boone at EMU, the other played briefly for Sid Moncrief when he coached at UA-LR.
Both transferred out and ended up at FGCU when they were in some phase of D2 transformation middle of last decade.
While I don't believe we showed any interest, just the fact that PSHS has put 5-6 kids in low D1 in the last 20 years makes them one if the best programs in my state. Much better teaching/coaching going on there than most spots in WV.
My wife's cousin is a Parkersburg South grad who played D-II basketball.
As for Fieler,
this story says he picked FGCU over James Madison and Eastern Kentucky:
Yet the three of them would eventually form the backbone of the team that plays for a berth in the Sweet 16. Fieler is grist for every undersized wannabe awaiting a late growth spurt. His father, Karl, is 6-7 and was a lineman at Ohio University, where his mother also played volleyball. Yet as a freshman at Parkersburg South High School in West Virginia, Fieler was a 5-10 point guard and as a sophomore a 6-0 shooting guard. He grew to 6-5 as a junior and 6-7 as a senior, long after the major recruiting ship had sailed. He visited James Madison and Eastern Kentucky in the rain and cold and FGCU on a sunny, 85-degree day and made a climate choice.
When Enfield inquired as to Fieler's position, he said he was a "catch-and-shoot three.'' Enfield decided otherwise and made Fieler a power forward who runs the floor and was on the receiving end of the rafter-scraping lob dunk from Comer that essentially finished Georgetown on Friday night. "Shot-fake and drive, Euro step around people, jump hook in the lane,'' said Fieler. "Things I hadn't worked on since high school. But they showed me I still had those things.''