ALL-MET ELITE INTERVIEW FORMER FLORIDA STATE PG & PRO ISAIAH SWANN

ALL-MET ELITE

 INTERVIEW FORMER

 FLORIDA STATE PG 

& 

PRO BASKETBALL PLAYER 

ISAIAH SWANN

IN 2001, DURING ISAIAH'S FRESHMAN YEAR AT MAGRUDER HIGH SCHOOL IN ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND, HE LED HIS TEAM TO AN UNDEFEATED CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON, MAGRUDER'S FIRST UNDEFEATED SEASON AND THE SCHOOL'S FIRST 4A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.

DURING THE SUMMERS OF 2001 TO 2003, ISAIAH PLAYED FOR THE NATIONALLY-RENOWNED D.C. BLUE DEVILS, AND HE WAS FORTUNATE TO BE TAUGHT THE GAME THE RIGHT WAY AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE, WHICH MADE IT EASIER FOR ISAIAH TO ACCLIMATE AMONG HIS HIGHLY-TOUTED TEAMMATES SUCH AS ROY HIBBERT, JAMES GIST, TRAVIS GARRISON, AND CHRIS MCCRAY, TO NAME A FEW.

UPON ISAIAH'S JUNIOR YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL, HE TRANSFERRED TO OAK HILL ACADEMY, THE NATIONALLY-KNOWN POWERHOUSE. ISAIAH MADE HIS TELEVISED DEBUT IN THE OAK HILL VERSUS ST. VINCENT ST. MARY GAME (SVSM). SVSM, LED BY LEBRON JAMES, GARNERED NATIONAL ATTENTION, AS THIS WAS THE FIRST NATIONALLY TELEVISED HIGH SCHOOL GAME ON ESPN.

FROM 2001 TO 2004, ISAIAH ATTENDED NIKE CAMP WITH THE LIKES OF CHRIS PAUL, P.J. TUCKER, LUOL DENG, RUDY GAY, DANIEL GIBSON, AND SHANNON BROWN. NOTABLY, IN 2004, ISAIAH PARTICIPATED IN THE JORDAN CAPITAL CLASSIC WITH JASON RICH, DWIGHT HOWARD, RAJON RONDO, AND MANY OTHER ELITE TALENTS. ​

ISAIAH'S HIGH SCHOOL CAREER ENDED ON TOP, AS HE TRANSFERRED TO HARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY, WHERE HE LED HIS TEAM TO THE PREP SCHOOL NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP (WITH A RECORD OF 25-1). SWANN RECEIVED OFFERS FROM OVER 200 COLLEGES, EVENTUALLY NARROWING HIS CHOICES TO FIVE - ARIZONA, UCONN, CINCINNATI, FSU, AND MARYLAND. ULTIMATELY, FSU BECAME HIS #1 CHOICE, AND HE COMMITTED IN THE WINTER OF 2004. 

"AT THE TIME, I WAS RANKED AS ONE OF THE 50 BEST PLAYERS IN THE NATION. I WAS #34 AND MY SOON-TO-BE COLLEGE ROOMMATE, JASON RICH, WAS #33. I HAD NO IDEA THAT THIS WOULD BE THE START OF A LIFE-LONG FRIENDSHIP," ISAIAH SHARED.  

DURING HIS TIME AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, ISAIAH LEARNED COUNTLESS LIFE LESSONS, ON AND OFF THE COURT, AND HE SOLIDIFIED HIS POSITION AS ONE OF FSU'S TOP 35 SCORERS IN THE SCHOOL'S HISTORY. ISAIAH NOT ONLY REACHED THE 1,000 POINT CLUB BUT HE TIED THE UNIVERSITY'S ALL-TIME RECORD FOR MOST 3'S IN A GAME (NINE). AFTER A DEVASTATING ACL INJURY DURING HIS SENIOR YEAR, ISAIAH WORKED HARD TO GET BACK ON THE COURT, ULTIMATELY SIGNING HIS FIRST PROFESSIONAL CONTRACT WITH AGET IMOLA IN ITALY.