Meet Otis Reale, the Servite High junior point guard who's raring to take O.C. basketball by storm.

Otis Reale is a 15-hour flight from home, pursuing a childhood dream. Otis Reale is a 15-hour flight from home, pursuing a childhood dream. Born into an athletic family and raised in Rome, Reale now lives locally and attends Servite High School. He speaks fluent English, Italian, French and Spanish, and is taking a Mandarin language class this semester. He s a basketball player by nature, and after sitting out all of December under CIF transfer rules, he started Tuesday s game against Sonora High. But Reale isn t new to America. He s visited Southern California the past few summers, and if you didn t know any better, you d swear he grew up in the states. Other than his Italian accent and a contrarian opinion of spaghetti and meatballs, Reale s no different than the teammates who ve adopted him into what they call the Servite family.