Rakeem Christmas Narrows List To 8 Schools
Words. dimemag
The Class of 2011′s Rakeem Christmas has had a long summer of outstanding performances at some of the most coveted basketball events. With the AAU basketball season drawing to a close, one of the nation’s best defensive players has garnered attention participating in the NBA Players Top 100 Camp, as well as the Amar’e Stoudemire and LeBron James Skill Academies. Before wrapping up his summer events next week at the Boost Mobile Elite 24 game at Rucker Park, the rising junior and his family decided on the schools he plans on looking closely at for options of attendance in 2011.
“It’s been a process, one that we wanted to make sure that the best choices were made for Rakeem,” said Amira Hamid, Christmas’ aunt and legal guardian. “He has been receiving scholarship offers since the 8th grade. With such an overwhelming number of schools interested in him, it was important that we did our due diligence with finalizing this list.”
The universities that make up this list include: Baylor, Florida, Georgetown, Indiana, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Texas and Villanova.
“I appreciate the interest that many coaches have in me but these are the schools that my family and I think would be a good fit for me” Rakeem stated. “My family and I are thankful to everyone that has offered me a scholarship and participated in my recruiting. I’m looking forward to my season at ANC and playing for Coach [Kevin] Givens. I’ve played with some of the players during the summer and I had a good time. After summer is over I want to make sure that I do well and improve in class and on the court.”
I’ve see Rakeem play and believe me, he’s a BIG TIME talent! He’s one of the best bigs I’ve seen in a long time and his upside is ridiculous! He’s definitely a star in the making and whatever school he goes to will have a bonified stud on their hands.
Is he related to dionte?
[...] basketball season at the Academy of the New Church. And as one of the top prospects in the country, you know more than a few coaches will be watching. Right before his first game last week, Christmas cut his list of schools from eight to five: [...]
the friends school league in PA is producing! watch out for Savon Goodman of ANC and Daniel Ochefu of Westtown