Rian Forestier’s mother, Denise, is one of the city’s all-time leading scorers.
“Forestier” has significance in San Antonio high school basketball history.
“There’s always been pressure because I want to make my family proud,” Rian said. “I want to make my coaches, my friends and everyone around me proud. There’s always been pressure to make my mom proud because that’s my mom.” “She is probably one of the only ones at Garcia Middle School that’s ever played all six sports,” Denise said. “She played tennis, golf. She was a goalie in soccer. Purposely, we did not have her have a singular focus on one sport so she could enjoy it. She did pole vaulting. She tried everything because we never knew if basketball was going to be her sport.”
Rian cracked the starting lineup as a freshman. She scored 206 points in 20 games — a season truncated because of the pandemic. The Express-News selected Rian as its newcomer of the year that season.