Foster Loyer

His grandfather, Al McFarland, played for Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball in 1964.

Foster has two younger siblings, Fletcher and Jersey, a volleyball athlete.

The Loyer family moved for John's National Basketball Association career with the Portland Trail Blazers, Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets and Detroit Pistons.

According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, the streak was the second-best all-time behind Daryl Moreau, who made 126 for De La Salle (New Orleans) from January 17, 1978, through January 9, 1979.

Foster Jacob Loyer (born June 24, 1999) is an American basketball player.

He played college basketball for the Michigan State Spartans and the Davidson Wildcats.

At the latter, he was a two-time second-team All-A-10 honoree and an All-A-10 Tournament team selection as a player.

His teams have won two Big Ten Conference regular season championships, a Big Ten Tournament Championship, a Final Four entry and an A-10 Conference regular season championship.

Loyer was born to John and Katie Loyer on June 24, 1999, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

His father played basketball at the University of Akron and his mom played volleyball at Indiana University, and was an assistant coach for Purdue volleyball.

Loyer was an assistant coach for the Portland (2003–05), Philadelphia (2005-09) and New Jersey (2009–11) before taking on the same role with Detroit in 2011.

It surpassed Frankenmuth's Brad Redford's streak of 102 that ended on December 9, 2008, as the MHSAA record.

He served as Pistons interim head coach for 32 games for the 2013-14 Pistons.

He later joined the Los Angeles Clippers as a scout in 2016.

Foster grew up in and around NBA arenas shooting as a toddler at lowered rims after games in Portland and shadow boxing before games with Allen Iverson in Philadelphia.

He eventually became an NBA ball boy at his father's teams.

Among the other relationships that gave him professional athlete exposure were those with Zach Randolph, Thaddeus Young and Kyle Korver.

In seventh grade, the family moved to Clarkston, Michigan.

Loyer had a very accomplished high school career, which placed his name in the MHSAA record book over 2 dozen times.

He is listed at the top of the record book in three places: career free throws made (634), consecutive free throws (119) and championship game single-quarter points scored (19).

On November 22, 2016, four-star point guard Foster Loyer committed to Michigan State.

Loyer's 119 consecutive free throws made streak that began on March 3, 2016, came to an end on January 24, 2017.

His high school consecutive free throw streak was second all-time for American high school players when it ended on January 24, 2017.

He also holds the MHSAA record for points scored in a state championship game quarter (19) and was the Atlantic 10 2021–22 three point shooting percentage leader (43.8%, fourth in the Division I).

Loyer is the son of NBA coach and scout John Loyer and brother of 2022 Indiana Mr. Basketball runner-up and current Purdue player Fletcher Loyer.

On March 24, 2017, Loyer tallied 32 points in the MHSAA Class A semifinal 78–35 blowout against West Bloomfield at the Breslin Center.

Loyer shot 10–17 shooting, including 5–8 on three-point shots, and 7–7 on his free throw attempts.

He also had 7 assists and 3 steals.

He attended Clarkston High School where he was a 2-time Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) state champion, won the 2018 Mr. Basketball of Michigan and was a 4-time 1st team All-State honoree.

He served as captain at both Michigan State and Davidson.

Loyer has several notable free throw shooting accomplishments, including MHSAA records for both career free throws made (634) and consecutive free throws made (119), 2021–22 NCAA Division I free throw percentage leader (93.65%), and 2021–22 and 2022–23 (92.09%) A-10 free throw percentage leader (fourth in 2022–23 NCAA Division I).

He is the Davidson Wildcats single-season free throw percentage, career free throw percentage and consecutive free throws made record holder.

He also surpassed Dane Fife, his coaches son, (2,287) for the Clarkston high school career scoring record on the same day that he scored 19 points in the second quarter of the 2018 MHSAA boys basketball Class A championship game to end his high school career with 2,325 points.

He started every game from the beginning of his freshman season.

Loyer was offered a scholarship at Michigan State before he started high school.

Izzo claims he offered Loyer a scholarship during his freshman season.

Loyer was a Class A first-team all-state selection as a freshman by The Detroit News, which stated his averages were 16 points, 5.5 assists, 3 steals.

MLive.com claims his freshman averages were 17.3 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game.

As a sophomore, he repeated as a Class A first-team all-state selection by The Detroit News.

His sophomore averages were 22.6 points, 6.7 assists, 4.3 rebounds and 2.7 steals per game.