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Xavier Nation Magazine Feature: Life as the Son of Two Marines
03.15.16 | Men's Basketball, Athletic Department
Get to know a little more about sophomore guard Trevon Bluiett
If Trevon Bluiett's household was any more regimented or rule-driven than others, maybe as a kid he didn't really notice much. His parents' house, his parents' rules, made up the only environment he knew.
But as for Trevon's friends . . .
"A couple of them would come over and see how my dad would act, and as soon as we'd leave, they'd be like, 'I'm never coming over here again,' " Trevon says.
Xavier's sophomore guard is the son of Reynardo Bluiett, a former Marine, and Mariam Bluiett, also a former Marine.
Reynardo and Mariam met at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and served four years, including the first Gulf War. Reynaldo was a shipboard supply clerk in the Atlantic; Mariam a driver for the motor transport support group, supplying different divisions in Kuwait with water and fuel.
The Bluietts left the Marines as corporals, eventually settling in Indianapolis, where Trevon attended Park Tudor High School.
"It was structured. It was kind of a strict household," Trevon says. "They expected a lot out of you. What they learned in the Marines – toughness, that type of stuff – they tried to instill in you."
Mariam isn't sure strict is the word, but said they worked to make sure Trevon and siblings Ashtyn, Juwaan and Brody embodied core values that dovetailed with Corps values.
"Being disciplined, always being respectful to adults, that sort of thing," Mariam says. "His dad had a good rule: Trevon had to put his cell phone up at 8 o'clock every night. He had to handle all his schoolwork and all his business before he went to bed. We didn't want him on the phone all night."
Another quality was dependability. Trevon was one of six Musketeers to play in all 37 games last season, and was second only to Dee Davis in minutes played.
"Work ethic, taking care of business," Mariam says. "I'm a mail carrier now, and you know the saying, rain, sleet, snow … you go to work."
Trevon, who made the BIG EAST Conference all-rookie team in his first year of college basketball, says he began to embrace discipline and structure by his freshman or sophomore year of high school.
"I had an epiphany," he says. "You know they say you can tell a lot about a person by looking at their closet? My closet was clothes everywhere, shoes everywhere, no style, no structure. That's when I really started to buckle down."
Some inherited traits carried over to athletics. Reynardo was a fullback and made the All-Marine football team; Mariam, 5-foot-11, made the All-Marine basketball team.
"From my dad, I got my toughness," Trevon says. "And my mom, she was tall and she was real physical.
"They used to call her Mad Dog when she played in the Marines. My dad calls her that. People they know from the Marines, they still call her that."
"True," Mariam says, laughing.
"I get my physical play from her," Trevon says. "I don't mind contact. I actually love that."
Spoken like a true Marine. Or like the son of two.
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But as for Trevon's friends . . .
"A couple of them would come over and see how my dad would act, and as soon as we'd leave, they'd be like, 'I'm never coming over here again,' " Trevon says.
Xavier's sophomore guard is the son of Reynardo Bluiett, a former Marine, and Mariam Bluiett, also a former Marine.
Reynardo and Mariam met at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and served four years, including the first Gulf War. Reynaldo was a shipboard supply clerk in the Atlantic; Mariam a driver for the motor transport support group, supplying different divisions in Kuwait with water and fuel.
The Bluietts left the Marines as corporals, eventually settling in Indianapolis, where Trevon attended Park Tudor High School.
"It was structured. It was kind of a strict household," Trevon says. "They expected a lot out of you. What they learned in the Marines – toughness, that type of stuff – they tried to instill in you."
Mariam isn't sure strict is the word, but said they worked to make sure Trevon and siblings Ashtyn, Juwaan and Brody embodied core values that dovetailed with Corps values.
"Being disciplined, always being respectful to adults, that sort of thing," Mariam says. "His dad had a good rule: Trevon had to put his cell phone up at 8 o'clock every night. He had to handle all his schoolwork and all his business before he went to bed. We didn't want him on the phone all night."
Another quality was dependability. Trevon was one of six Musketeers to play in all 37 games last season, and was second only to Dee Davis in minutes played.
"Work ethic, taking care of business," Mariam says. "I'm a mail carrier now, and you know the saying, rain, sleet, snow … you go to work."
Trevon, who made the BIG EAST Conference all-rookie team in his first year of college basketball, says he began to embrace discipline and structure by his freshman or sophomore year of high school.
"I had an epiphany," he says. "You know they say you can tell a lot about a person by looking at their closet? My closet was clothes everywhere, shoes everywhere, no style, no structure. That's when I really started to buckle down."
Some inherited traits carried over to athletics. Reynardo was a fullback and made the All-Marine football team; Mariam, 5-foot-11, made the All-Marine basketball team.
"From my dad, I got my toughness," Trevon says. "And my mom, she was tall and she was real physical.
"They used to call her Mad Dog when she played in the Marines. My dad calls her that. People they know from the Marines, they still call her that."
"True," Mariam says, laughing.
"I get my physical play from her," Trevon says. "I don't mind contact. I actually love that."
Spoken like a true Marine. Or like the son of two.
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