Longwood University Athletics

Pronunciation: LI-ter-iss (sounds like literate)
 
2021-22: Sweet-shooting, athletic forward with the ability to shoot and slash who played in 30 games while helping Longwood win its first Big South regular season and tournament titles on the way to earning a trip to the NCAA National Tournament…Nearly doubled his scoring average (6.1 from 3.2 ppg) from his redshirt-freshman season while also averaging 3.1 rebounds per game 14.3 minutes per game…Shot .373 from three (38-102) after shaking off a slump to start the season…Shot .465 (20-43) over the team’s final 16 games…Scored in double digits five times…Posted a season-best 13 points at Abilene Christian (Dec. 23) on 5-10 shooting, 3-7 from three…Hit a career best four three’s against Winthrop on Jan. 29 while scoring 12 points…Grabbed a season-best nine rebounds one game later against UNC Asheville on Feb. 2…

2020-21: Appeared in 23 of Longwood’s 29 games…averaged 3.2 points, 1.6 rebounds and 9.3 minutes per game…shot .425 (17-of-40) from three-point range, the highest clip on the team…took 40 of his 63 field goal attempts from beyond the arc…totaled 13 steals and three blocks…scored in double figures twice…scored a career-high 13 points in just 15 minutes against North Carolina A&T (Dec. 8), knocking down 3-of-4 three-pointers…also scored 12 points in 16 minutes against Charleston Southern (Feb. 18), hitting 3-of-4 three-pointers while adding a career-high three steals and five rebounds…played at least 10 minutes in each of Longwood’s final six games…had a steal in seven of his final eight games.
 
2019-20: Did not see game action as a true freshman while taking a developmental redshirt.

High School: Four-year letterwinner at Seward High School…two-year team captain…as a junior, averaged 13.7 points and 5.6 rebounds per game…named team MVP that year…member of the National Honor Society…also an honor roll student…volunteered as an outdoor education counselor and as a mentor for elementary students.
 
Personal: Son of Dave and Dawn Lliteras…has five siblings, Talia, Robby, Jake, Noah and Keira…father played basketball at Chadron State…brother, Jake, played basketball at Oral Roberts…plans to study biology and pursue a career in medicine after basketball.