BISHOP O'CONNELL GUARD - XAVIER JOHNSON - EXCLUSIVE TWITTER INTERVIEW - ALL-MET ELITE

BISHOP O'CONNELL

POINT GUARD

XAVIER JOHNSON

  EXCLUSIVE TWITTER

INTERVIEW

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Age, height, weight? 16, 6'1, 170.

 

What basketball teams did you play for growing up middle school, AAU, or boys and girls club? Battlefield Middle(Fredericksburg,Va) Hoop Booth, Fredericksburg Heat, LBA Attack, DC Premier.

 

When did you first start playing basketball? I first started playing basketball at 2 years old.

 

What did you work on this summer to get better? I worked on my jumper most of the summer.

 

What are your strengths? My strengths are going off screens, finishing around the basket, finding open teammates, getting paint touches, taking charges, and my defense.

 

What do you believe you need to continue to work on? I need to work on my jumper.

What were the highlights of your summer on the AAU/camp circuit? The highlight of my summer was Peach Jam and Vegas.

What are your goals this upcoming season for O'Connell? My goal for the season is to win the WCAC title!

 

What schools have offered or have shown interest in you? Providence, NC State, Towson, Manhattan have offered me. Notre Dame, Louisiana Tech, Lehigh, Yale, Old Dominion, Nebraska, Georgetown, George Washington, George Mason,William and Mary, Xavier, and James Madison have all shown interest.

 

What do you believe has caused your recruiting to increase? I think Peach Jam boosted my recruitment just playing really well on both ends of the floor and doing it in front of a big crowd.

 

What player or coach have you learned the most from while in high school so far? I learned from all my coaches at both O'Connell and Team Takeover. They've taught me a lot and they are still continuing to teach me a lot. But the player I watch a lot is Kyrie Irving the way he breaks down defenders and scores the ball in different kind of ways is amazing and I try to model my game after him.

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ST. MARIA GORETTI GUARD ELIJAH CLARANCE COMMITS TO ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY - ALL-MET ELITE

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 GUARD

  ELIJAH CLARANCE

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 ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY 

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ST. MARIA GORETTI HS.

HAGERSTOWN MD.

 

Elijah Clarance, a 6-foot-4, 180-pound point guard from St. Maria-Goretti High School in Hagerstown, Md., made an oral commitment to Illinois State’s basketball program Wednesday night. Clarance, who came from Sweden to St. Maria-Goretti two years ago, visited the ISU campus earlier this month.

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Clarance played AAU basketball for D.C. Premier out of Washington, D.C. He reportedly had offers from Delaware and Towson and had drawn recruiting interest from Maryland and Georgetown.

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Coach Turner was chosen for this award because he has inspired so many student-athletes over his 12 years as Gonzaga’s head coach, and his 17 years overall at the school.  He has coached and mentored eight student-athletes who have been named the Gatorade D.C. Player of the Year.  His hard work and dedication to building “Men for Others” of great character, who have excelled both on and off the court, made him a slam dunk choice as the first ever Gatorade National Coach of the Year.

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By Alejandro Danois

The inspiring true story of a high-school basketball team that overcame desperate circumstances in 1980s Baltimore to produce four NBA players and give hope to a neighborhood and a city, thanks to a remarkable coach who relentlessly pursued perfection.

As the crack epidemic swept across inner-city America in the early 1980s, the streets of Baltimore were crime ridden. For poor kids from the housing projects, the future looked bleak. But basketball could provide the quickest ticket out, an opportunity to earn a college scholarship and perhaps even play in the NBA.

Dunbar High School had one of the most successful basketball programs, not only in Baltimore but in the entire country, and in the early 1980s, the Dunbar Poets were arguably the best high school team of all time. Four starting players—Muggsy Bogues, Reggie Williams, David Wingate, and Reggie Lewis—would eventually play in the NBA, an unheard-of success rate. In The Boys of Dunbar, Alejandro Danois takes us through the 1981-1982 season with the Poets as the team conquered all its opponents. But more than that, he takes us into the lives of these kids, and especially of Coach Bob Wade, a former NFL player from the same neighborhood who knew that the basketball court, and the lessons his players would learn there, held the key to the future.

Drawing on interviews with Coach Wade, Muggsy Bogues, and others, The Boys of Dunbar is a remarkable testament to the power of dedication, inspiration, and teamwork. It is an ode to an extraordinary coach, a father figure who had lived the life of his players years before and who turned a dream into reality.

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Emerging from humble beginnings in Washington D.C. to one of the world’s greatest basketball players, Kevin Durant didn’t just simply “make it.” He had to work. And when he was pouring in countless hours of practice time, many of them were spent on courts in Fairmount Heights located in Prince Georges County.

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JELANI WILLIAMS OF SIDWELL FRIENDS HS. EXCLUSIVE TWITTER INTERVIEW - ALL-MET ELITE

JELANI WILLIAMS

 OF

SIDWELL FRIENDS HS.

EXCLUSIVE TWITTER INTERVIEW

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JELANI WILLIAMS HAS RECENTLY COMMITTED

TO

THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

 

 What are your senior season basketball goals for Sidwell Friends? I want to win both a MAC and a DC state championship.

 

What were the highlights of your final summer playing AAU? I was hurt most of the summer, so Peach Jam was the highlight. The atmosphere there is crazy.

 

What was it about the University of Pennsylvania both academically and athletically that led you to commit there as a student/athlete? I felt like Penn was the best fit for me both on and off the court. They have the best business program in the world in the Wharton School, and on the court the coaching staff believes in me and will allow me to play the way that I play.

 

What are your thoughts of your Team Takeover AAU teammate and fellow local Eddie Scott starting his college career alongside you at the University of Pennsylvania? I think Eddie made a great choice and I'm excited to play with him!

 

Did Eddie Scott's earlier commitment factor into yours? Yes, after Eddie committed he recruited me there really hard, and was a big part of my decision.