Education
Hillsdale High School.
Hillsdale High School.
The San Mateo, California, native was selected 32nd by the Suns in the 1985 National Basketball Association Draft, after playing for Hillsdale High School and collegiately at Santa Clara University. He played for the Suns as a center on the team His career with the Suns lasted only two years before coming to a tragic education
On August 16, 1987, Vanos and his fiancee boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 255, after visiting his fiancee"s parents, for a trip to Phoenix, Arizona.
The McDonnell Douglas Doctor of Medicine-82 crashed on takeoff from the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan, killing 154 passengers and crew, as well as two motorists.