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2025 Eddie Lau Elite 17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Eddie Lau is a former college player, college coach and NBA agent. He is also the very successful varsity head coach at Murry Bergtraum High School in Manhattan. In the off season, he runs his Eddie Lau Academy, which includes running AAU teams. Below are the player profiles for the college prospects on his 17u team: ... Read more

2025 Connecticut Elite 17u - Perrier Player Profiles

RecruittTheBronx@gmail.com Connecticut Elite is the largest premier youth basketball and development program in Connecticut. Their 2024 17u HGSL team is coached by Albertus Magnus College Assistant coach and Elite 50 Showcase operator, Jason “JP” Perrier, and below is his roster. #1 CJ McRae (2025) 5’9 point guard, Crosby Hi... Read more

2025 CM3 17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com CM3 is a New York City based AAU program founded by Charles Melone. Melone is also the Director of Athletics at the Variety Boys and Girls Club in Astoria Queens. Their 17u team is coached by Dr. Ken Hoyte, assistant coach at Brooklyn Collegiate High. The 2025 CM3 17u roster is as below. Brandon Burke Jr. (2025)... Read more

2025 6th Boro Hoops 17u-MHC Player Profiles

RecruiTheBronx@gmail.com 6th Boro Hoops is a long-term oriented program with the goal of holistically developing their players. The program was founded and is directed by Nihad Musovic, a four year player at Fordham Prep ‘11, Fordham University ‘15 and two year member of the Montenegrin National Team. He holds a Masters of Sports ... Read more

2025 Riverside Select 17u HGAL Team

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Founded by the Riverside Church in 1961, the Riverside Hawks are a historic and venerable grassroots basketball program based in the Harlem. They provide an opportunity for youth to use basketball as a vehicle to improve academic outcomes and in turn, improve career prospects. Through some transitions, the program has ... Read more

2025 DTX Blue 17u Team Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com DTX Basketball is a Connecticut based grass roots program that has over the years become a deep source of college prospects. The program is run by Dave Taylor, with assistance from college placement guru, Noel Roman. The program runs its practices out of the three court, InSports Center facility in Trumbull. They ru... Read more

2025 Crown Basketball 17u HGSL Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Crown Basketball program is based out of Long Island. It is a highly respected program with experienced coaches who are developing talent at all ages. The 17u HGSL team is coached by the program head, Chris Diasparra, a former assistant coach and player at Adelphi University. The 2025 Crown Basketball 17u HGSL ... Read more

2025 Riverside Hawks UAA 17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Riverside Hawks, one of NYC’s most storied programs, was founded by the historic Riverside Church in the early 1960’s. The program’s mission is still to help students and families use basketball to pursue academic opportunities and to promote their character development. Their 17u team is coached b... Read more

2025 New Heights 17u National Team Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com New Heights is a sports-based youth development organization that creates opportunities for youth to rise to their potential on the basketball court, in the classroom and in their communities. Their mission is to educate and empower promising underserved youth to be leaders, champions and student-athletes by developing... Read more

2025 Rising Stars 16u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Rising Stars was founded by Paul Savramis in the early 1980’s as a series of summer camps but has since been on a 21-year journey of changing the lives of countless youths and their families. Today, Rising Stars is staffed with dozens of dedicated professionals and is considered of the elite, educationally-centered y... Read more

2025 Wiz Kids 17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com In 1990, following a successful professional and collegiate basketball career, Clarence “Mugsy” Leggett began his journey to being a community leader. His desire to make a positive impact on children is inspired by his years spent growing up in the education system and playgrounds of New York City. He quickly devel... Read more

2025 NY Basketball Academy 17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com New York Basketball Academy are a grass roots program based out of Westchester/Putnam County, with players being from Dutchess County, all the way to the Connecticut state line. Their players are being recruited by multiple D3 schools. The program is owned and the teams are coached by a winner and a strong culture bui... Read more

2025 Wiz Kids 15u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com In 1990, following a successful professional and collegiate basketball career, Clarence “Mugsy” Leggett began his journey to being a community leader. His desire to make a positive impact on children is inspired by his years spent growing up in the education system and playgrounds of New York City. He quickly devel... Read more

2025 King Hoops Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com King Hoops is a New York City based 501(c)3 non-profit organization with student-athletes from all five boroughs and is loaded with college basketball talent across all levels. Follow King Hoops on Instagram. College scouts can reach out to Program Director Josh Horwitz at (314) 915-4343, or at josh@kinghoops.org to... Read more

2025 MADE Hoops NYC Clash Top Performers

By David Cordova On Saturday, April 26, we caught the action at Maurice Fitzgerald Gymnasium on the campus of Queens College out in Flushing, Queens for the MADE Hoops NYC Clash. The event featured plenty of independent teams from the Northeast, as well as the teams from the Made Hoops Circuit. In the tournament, there were many underclassmen ... Read more

2025 New York Lighting EYBL 17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The New York Lightning (NYL) is one of the region’s most highly regarded grassroots programs, known for producing high talent, high character college-bound players and being stacked with a deep bench of excellent coaches. The program is co-directed by Dana Dingle and Shandue McNeill. Their 17u team that is coache... Read more

2025 NY Rens EYBL 17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The renown NY Rens program is New York City based but its players are sourced from multiple states. The program was originally inspired by the historical team of the same name during the Harlem Renaissance. The original New York Renaissance, or RENS, was the first fully all-black professional African-American owned bas... Read more

2025 PSA Cardinals EYBL 17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com ProScholars Athletics is a nationally renown grass roots basketball program, based in New York City. Their main objective is to use team sports as platforms to not only showcase their student’s athletic gifts but to expose them to greater social and academic opportunities that ensure they can succeed at the colle... Read more

2025 Level Up LI Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Level Up LI is in its eighth year and is one of the fastest growing youth travel AAU basketball programs in the tri-state NY area. Their mission is to create the top travel basketball teams focusing heavily on individual and team development for their players both on and off the basketball court. The primary focus is t... Read more

2025 Empire Youth 17u-Klein College Prospects

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Empire Youth Athletics has a stated goal to mold their players into hard-working, coachable individuals by providing a high quality coaching and training experience for them. They preach that becoming better people is the priority, with basketball being the secondary goal. “Team First” is an overriding philosophy a... Read more

2025 Select Hoops Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Select Hoops is in its third year as a program based out of NYC. They offer year round training and highly competitive basketball programming for all ages from 9-18 years old. SLT Hoops, led by its Founder and Director, Noah Griffith is a program based on their moniker of “US, WE, TOGETHER, FAMILY”. As a family-bas... Read more

2025 Team NYC 15u and 16u Puma Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Team NYC is a nationally respected grassroots basketball program founded by veteran coach Donald Francois, who brings over 20 years of experience in coaching and player development. Coach Francois has coached at St. Mary’s, Long Island Lutheran, and currently serves as an assistant varsity coach at Archbishop Molloy... Read more

2025 New Haven Heat-Made Hoops17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The New Haven Heat is a highly regarded developer of college-bound talent in the basketball rich Greater New Haven, CT region. Doc Kennedy runs the program and coaches their 17u Made Hoops circuit level team. He is assisted by He is assisted by Craig Wilson, Jr. a current player at Rhode Island College. Below is the... Read more

2025 6th Boro Hoops 17u-Shak Player Profiles

RecruiTheBronx@gmail.com 6th Boro Hoops is a long-term oriented program with the goal of holistically developing their players. The program was founded and is directed by Nihad Musovic, a four year player at Fordham Prep ‘11, Fordham University ‘15 and two year member of the Montenegrin National Team. He holds a Masters of Sports ... Read more

2025 Wiz Kids 16u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com In 1990, following a successful professional and collegiate basketball career, Clarence “Mugsy” Leggett began his journey to being a community leader. His desire to make a positive impact on children is inspired by his years spent growing up in the education system and playgrounds of New York City. He quickly devel... Read more

2025 Nassau Pride 17u-Blue Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Nassau Pride Hoops, founded in 2013, is a Long Island-based AAU basketball organization offered for boys and girls of multiple age brackets. Their more experienced teams will compete in many of the top tournaments in the Tri-state area. While the Pride develops enhanced skillsets, they also place a great emphasis on te... Read more

2025 Rising Stars 17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Rising Stars was founded by Paul Savramis in the early 1980’s as a series of summer camps but has since been on a 21-year journey of changing the lives of countless youths and their families. Today, Rising Stars is staffed with dozens of dedicated professionals and is considered of the elite, educationally-centered y... Read more

2025 Rens United 17u-Smith Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Rens United is an high academic oriented team affiliated with the renown NY Rens program. The program is New York City based but players are sourced from multiple states. They have a strong history of sending athletes to high-academic universities at all three levels across the northeast. The 17u-Smith team is head ... Read more

2025 New Haven Heat 16u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The New Haven Heat is a highly regarded developer of college-bound talent in the basketball rich Greater New Haven, CT region. Doc Kennedy runs the program. Their 16u Select Team and their 16u MadeHoops Circuit teams are coached by Saany Frazier and he is assisted by Deivon “Dae” Moore. Coach Frazier has lo... Read more

The TS-S Scouting Report

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Ty Staples-Santos Sr. is a player development coach and Co-Founder of New England Supreme Basketball Academy. He is also now a contributing scout for RecruitTheBronx.com, focused on exposing under-the-radar talent from the ranks of Connecticut basketball. Below, we detail his recap of a couple of the college level pote... Read more

2025 Real Scout Uncommitted Showcase Top Performers

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com On Saturday afternoon, April 12, we got to Adlai Stevenson Educational Campus for the Real Scout Uncommitted Showcase, which was an opportunity for many of the players from New York City and surrounding areas to compete in front of coaches from NCAA Division II and Division III schools, as well as junior colleges and p... Read more

2025 Above the Rim Elite 17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Above the Rim Elite is a Central Massachusetts based AAU basketball program committed to helping student-athletes of all backgrounds. They compete in the PRO16/NXTPRO League which is sponsored by Puma Hoops. Their 17u team is coached by Deandre “Supa” Ortiz and his roster is as profiled below. #00 Rodrigo Dos ... Read more

2025 Team Relentless 15u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Team Relentless is a basketball program serving Long Island and NYC. Their primary purpose is developing student athletes that can use basketball to pursue academic opportunities, build relationships and develop character and leadership skills. The Team Relentless coaches are Jason Pinsky and Kevin Dickey who are ba... Read more

2025 Team Relentless 17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Team Relentless is a basketball program serving Long Island and NYC. Their primary purpose is developing student athletes that can use basketball to pursue academic opportunities, build relationships and develop character and leadership skills. The Team Relentless coaches are Jason Pinsky and Kevin Dickey who are ba... Read more

2025 DTX Red 17u Team College Prospects

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com DTX Basketball is a Connecticut based grass roots program that has over the years become a deep source of college prospects. The program is run by Dave Taylor, with assistance from college placement guru, Noel Roman. The program runs its practices out of the three court, InSports Center facility in Trumbull. They run... Read more

2025 Riverside Hawks 16u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Riverside Hawks, one of NYC’s most storied programs, was founded by the historic Riverside Church in the early 1960’s. The program’s mission is still to help students and families use basketball to pursue academic opportunities and to promote their character development. Their 16u team is coached b... Read more

2025 City Rocks Hope Long Island 17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com In 1993 Jim Hart along with four other area coaches started the City Rocks program, based in Albany, NY. Now entering their 22th season, City Rocks field over 20 teams made up from over 200 boys and girls from Upstate New York and beyond. They have achieved National acclaim and are widely considered a Top 20 AAU progra... Read more

2025 New Haven Heat Select 17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The New Haven Heat is a highly regarded developer of college-bound talent in the basketball rich Greater New Haven, CT region. Doc Kennedy runs the program. Their 17u Select Team is coached by Lawrence McGill . He is assisted by Craig Wilson, Jr. a current player at Rhode Island College. Below is the New Haven Heat S... Read more

2025 Next Best 8th Grader Showcase Top Performers

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com On Saturday, April 5, two former college basketball players Drew Sawyer and Jordan Pettway hosted the 2025 Next Best Showcase for high potential Connecticut 8th graders at Weston High School (CT). Their crew of coaches and former players ran drills, gave coaching tips and hosted game play. The following players drew... Read more

2025 New Heights 17u Regional Team Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com New Heights is a sports-based youth development organization that creates opportunities for youth to rise to their potential on the basketball court, in the classroom and in their communities. Their mission is to educate and empower promising underserved youth to be leaders, champions and student-athletes by developing... Read more

2025 New York Lighting HGSL 17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The New York Lightning (NYL) is one of the region’s most highly regarded grassroots programs, known for producing high talent, high character college-bound players and being stacked with a deep bench of excellent coaches. The program is co-directed by Dana Dingle and Shandue McNeill. Their 17u HGSL team that is c... Read more

2025 New Heights 16u National Team Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com New Heights is a sports-based youth development organization that creates opportunities for youth to rise to their potential on the basketball court, in the classroom and in their communities. Their mission is to educate and empower promising underserved youth to be leaders, champions and student-athletes by developing... Read more

2025 CT Elite Senior Showcase Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com On the evening of Friday, April 4, Connecticut Elite’s hard working, high energy college and prep school placement guru, Jason Perrier will again host their Unsigned Seniors Showcase. This year the event will take place at the Newtown Youth Academy in Newtown CT. Each year Coach JP goes out to the highest potenti... Read more

2025 City Rocks EYBL 17u Player Profiles

RecruittTheBronx@gmail.com In 1993 Jim Hart along with four other area coaches started the City Rocks program. Now entering their 20th season, City Rocks field over 20 teams made up from over 200 boys and girls from Upstate New York and beyond. They have achieved National acclaim and are widely considered a Top 20 AAU program in the USA. They h... Read more

2025 2A and 3A PSAL Finals Top Performers

By David Cordova, On Sunday night, March 16, we paid a visit to the Steinberg Wellness Center on the campus of LIU Brooklyn in downtown Brooklyn for the PSAL championships for the 2A and 3A divisions. In the 2A championship game, Benjamin Banneker Academy knocked off Brooklyn College Academy. In the 3A championship game, Achievement First Broo... Read more

2025 4A PSAL Semifinals Top Performers

By David Cordova, On Saturday, March 8, we made it to the Maurice Fitzgerald Gymnasium on the campus of Queens College in Flushing, Queens for the PSAL 4A semifinals. The winners of each game will be playing in the championship game on Thursday, March 13th at Carnesecca Arena on the campus of St. John’s University in Jamaica, Queens. In the f... Read more

2025 Kips Bay Mustangs 17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Kips Bay Mustangs are a boys grassroots basketball powerhouse based in the Kips Bay section of Bronx. The Mustangs play throughout the year in AAU, YBOA and competitive open tournaments in and outside of the New York City area. The practices are held at the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club. Their 2025 17u team is coach... Read more

2025 CT Takeover Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com CT TakeOver is grass roots program for ages 7-17 years old. Since being established in 2019, Takeover has provided year round training and high level competitive basketball. The program’s mindset is to help as many student athletes get to the next level as possible. It’s working, They already now have multi... Read more

2025 6th Boro Hoops 17u-Bajana Player Profiles

RecruiTheBronx@gmail.com 6th Boro Hoops is a long-term oriented program with the goal of holistically developing their players. The program was founded and is directed by Nihad Musovic, a four year player at Fordham Prep ‘11, Fordham University ‘15 and two year member of the Montenegrin National Team. He holds a Masters of Sports ... Read more

Empire 8 Prep League 2024-25 All League Selections

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The path for talented high school basketball players to land a spot on a college roster, more times than not, involves taking an additional year of development as a post grad in a prep school program. This accomplishes a number of things for the prospects. One, it gives them additional year of physical and basketball d... Read more

2025 Super Saturday Showdown Top Performers

By David Cordova, On Saturday, February 8, we got to the Hynes Athletic Center on the campus of Iona University in New Rochelle for the Super Saturday Showdown event. It’s a high profile game hosted by Iona Preparatory School, featuring the second matchup between Westchester County’s finest Catholic school programs, Archbishop Stepinac ... Read more

2025 Athletic Club of Connecticut 17u Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Athletic Club of Connecticut was founded in 2018 by Donnell Harvey. Player development, coaching, and competition are the building blocks to the program. AC Connecticut Basketball emphasizes the importance of teamwork, sportsmanship, and education. The program is driven by what is best for the child: whether in a ... Read more

2025 Project Triple Threat 17u HGSL Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Project Triple Threat (PTT) is a Connecticut’s grass roots basketball club, founded by Choate Rosemary Hall varsity coach, Drew Dawson. With a number of programs to meet the needs of various ages and abilities including player development training, camps and clinics and club teams, PTT is recognized as one of the mos... Read more

2025 Peekskill Black History Month Showcase

By David Cordova, On Saturday, February 1, we shot up to Peekskill High School in Peekskill, NY for their Black History Month Showcase. The event featured ten of the top schools in New York, Section 1 playing against one another for a good cause. We caught the final two games, where Mamaroneck High played The Bronx’s own DeWitt Clinton and t... Read more

2024-25 Eagle Academy-Harlem Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Eagle Academy for the Young Men of Harlem (which is housed in the Percy Sutton Educational Complex) is one of the six schools in the Eagle Academy School Network. It is an all boys, grades 6-12 public school affiliated with the New York Department of Education. It was opened in 2013 and established by the 100 Black Men... Read more

2025 Pro Level Titans-Dunn Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Pro Level Titans are a New York City based grass roots program that strives to educate athletes and build life-enrichment skills such as work ethic, commitment, self-motivation, integrity, perseverance, and self-discipline. The program motivates, inspires, and pushes their athletes to the max in every practice. Giving ... Read more

2025 Hoophall Prep Showcase Standouts

By David Cordova, This weekend, we traveled to Massachusetts to the Hoophall Prep Showcase at the Butova Gymnasium on the campus of American International College in Springfield. Many of the nation’s top ranked prep school programs came in to compete in front of college coaches and professional scouts. The college scouts were out in sizeab... Read more

2024-25 FCIAC Top Performers

By Trayon Rumley* FCIAC, the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference, was established in 1961 and is made up of high schools throughout Fairfield County, Connecticut. Among other things, Fairfield County is a bedroom suburb of New York City whose border starts about 20 miles away from the Bronx. The conference comprises 17 public a... Read more

2025 Slam Dunk NY/Crusader Classic Top Performers

By David Cordova For the January 3-4 weekend, RecruitTheBronx.com joined more than three thousand high school basketball fans at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, NY for the annual Slam Dunk New York/Crusader Classic. This event is a staple in the Tri-state area and features some of Westchester’s finest talent from both Section ... Read more

2024-25 St Peter’s High Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com St Peter’s Boys School has proudly served the Staten Island community for more than 100 years. With a rich history and tradition of distinction, St. Peter’s is committed to faith through service, excellence, and cultivating a community of mindful teachers and learners within an inclusive community. The Eagles var... Read more

2024-25 Archbishop Molloy Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Archbishop Molloy High School is a co-educational, college preparatory, Catholic school for grades 9-12, located on six acres on 83-53 Manton Street, Briarwood, Queens. It is a top college preparatory school in New York. The boys varsity basketball team competes in the Brooklyn Queens AA Division of the CHSSA. Since 20... Read more

2025 New Heights 16u Regional Team Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com New Heights is a sports-based youth development organization that creates opportunities for youth to rise to their potential on the basketball court, in the classroom and in their communities. Their mission is to educate and empower promising underserved youth to be leaders, champions and student-athletes by developing... Read more

2024-25 Mount St Michael Academy Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Mount Saint Michael Academy is an all-boys’ Catholic high school in the Wakefield neighborhood of the New York City borough of the Bronx. Their varsity basketball team competes in the historically talent-loaded Catholic High School Athletic Association AA division. The team is head coached by 30 year veteran, Tho... Read more

2024-25 Baldwin Senior High School Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Baldwin High School is a public high school located in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York. This school serves students in grades 9 to 12. It is the eighth-largest high school in Nassau County. Their boys varsity basketball team has a strong recent history. They were the 2022 Long Island Champions, and the 2022, 2023 and ... Read more

2024 Swoosh Classic Top Performers

By David Cordova, On Sunday afternoon, December 15, we showed up at South Shore Educational Campus in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn for the third annual Swoosh Classic, which was presented by Nike. The two boys games featured some of the best boys talent in the Tri-state area. Here are the standouts from both of the games: Amadou “Ha... Read more

2024 NYC Invitational Top Performers

By David Cordova On Sunday, December 8, we paid a visit to James Monroe Educational Campus in The Bronx for the NYC Invitational, put together by E.T.S Academy (Education Through Sports) and the PSA Cardinals. The event had a group of top New York City high school teams and also strong teams from Pennsylvania and upstate New York competing. We... Read more

2024-25 Frederick Douglass Academy Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Located in the heart of Harlem, Frederick Douglass Academy 1 stands out as a premier college preparatory school, renowned for academic excellence and dedicated to equipping students with the tools needed for successful college endeavors. Their boys varsity basketball team competesin the PSAL Manhattan A II Division 2. ... Read more

Kennedy Catholic High 2024-25 Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com John F. Kennedy Catholic Preparatory School is an Roman Catholic, co-educational high school located in Somers, New York. It serves 630 students in grades 9–12 from Westchester, Dutchess, Putnam and Fairfield counties and the Bronx. Their boys varsity basketball team is coached by Marcus Matthews in his second year ... Read more

2025 Gotham Hoops Classic Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Gotham Hoops Classic is an in-season, multi-day showcase, being held at the Bronx Community High School. The annual event features high school teams from diverse regions. This platform significantly boosts visibility for aspiring players, offering exposure to college coaches from various two-and-four year programs ... Read more

2024-25 College Achieve Asbury Park (NJ) Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com College Achieve Asbury Park is a free education Kindergarten through high school public charter school committed to preparing scholars to excel in and graduate from top colleges. The stated mission is to produce college graduates who will return to their communities to become leaders. Their boys basketball team has ... Read more

2024-25 Bedford Academy Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Bedford Academy is a high school in Brooklyn that prepares its students for careers in medicine, engineering and law. Its boys varsity basketball team competes in the New York City Public School Athletic League Brooklyn III, Division 3A. The team is coached by Robert Phelps, Sr. Coach Phelps is a former professiona... Read more

2024-25 Canterbury School Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Canterbury School is an independent, college preparatory, coeducational boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12 and postgraduates, located in New Milford, CT. Its boys varsity basketball team competes in the college prep level NEPSAC Class B (midsized schools) conference. The Canterbury players get addi... Read more

2024-25 Winchendon School NYC Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Winchendon School of Massachusetts has a long tradition of developing student athletes into college basketball players. Last year was their inaugural to also run a program out of New York City in order to directly tap into the deepest metropolitan pool of basketball talent in the world. It went well, and they are e... Read more

2024-25 New Fairfield High Season Preview

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com New Fairfield High is the public high school in New Fairfield, CT. It enrolls approximately 600 students in grades 9-12. Their boys basketball team competes in the South-West Conference of the CIAC (SWC) and is set to put some dynamic college prospects on the floor this year. As head coach Donnell Harvey enters his ... Read more

2024-25 Hotchkiss School Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Hotchkiss School is a highly regarded academic, coeducational prep and boarding school in Lakeville, CT that was founded in 1891. Its boys varsity basketball team competes in the college prep level NEPSAC Class A (large schools) and the Founders League. Their players get additional college scout exposure by also pa... Read more

2024-25 St Lukes School Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com St Lukes School is a secular, private day school serving grades 5-12 in New Canaan, CT. Its boys varsity basketball team is coached by former Quinnipiac College Assistant Coach Tony Newsom and is assistant coached by Evan Downey. St Luke’s has a long history of placing their players onto college teams. They compe... Read more

2024 Achievement First Veterans Classic Top Performers

By David Cordova, On Sunday afternoon, November 10, RecruitTheBronx.com made it to Achievement First High School in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn for the Achievement First Veterans Classic. This event consists of a series of exhibition games for Greater NYC teams before the beginning of the regular season. On this date, we caught three... Read more

2024-25 Our Saviour Lutheran Regional Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Our Saviour Lutheran High School is a private, co-educational school located in Morris Park, Bronx. Its high school was established in 1955. In basketball, under coach Peter Wehye, they have created a tremendous college prep program. This year they are running five teams. Wehye head coaches the top team, that competes... Read more

2024-25 South Kent School Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com South Kent School is an all male boarding school, founded in 1924 and located in Litchfield County, CT. Over the years, It’s basketball program has been uber-prolific in producing high level college prospects. This past September, their head coach Raphael Chillious was hired back into the NBA. Accordingly, then A... Read more

2024-25 Rye Country Day School Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Rye Country Day School is a very high academic, co-educational, independent day school in Rye, NY about 30 miles from New York City. The boys varsity basketball team is coached by Jared Jones in his first year at the helm. Coach Jones has over a decade of experience coaching, including roles in Division I programs at C... Read more

2024-25 New Rochelle High Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com New Rochelle High School is the public high school in New Rochelle, NY, located 23 miles north of New York City. Its student body is very diverse, with the students’ families originating from 60 countries. The school’s athletic teams, the Huguenots, compete in the New York State Public High School Athletic ... Read more

2024 Empire 8 Tip-off Top Performers

By David Cordova, On Sunday, November 3, RecruitTheBronx.com got ourselves to Lawrence Woodmere Academy in Woodmere, Long Island, for the Empire 8 Tip-Off Classic. This was the debut event for the newly formed Elite 8 League. The League consists of eight postgraduate programs from New York City and Nassau County, Long Island. In all four gam... Read more

2024-25 Brunswick School Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Brunswick School is a 120-year old, all boys, private college preparatory private school in Greenwich, CT, educating pre-Kindergarten through grade 12. Its boys basketball team plays in the Fairchester Athletic Association, and they can earn a seed in the NEPSAC Class A post-season championship tournaments. The team... Read more

2024-25 Hoosac School AA Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Founded in 1889, The Hoosac School is a coeducational college preparatory school for grades 8-12 and post-graduate students in Hoosick, NY, 30 miles east of Albany, near the Vermont border. Seven years ago, Athletic Director, Mike Ryan brought in Bojan Grubisic and Nemo Maric to bring the mens basketball program up to ... Read more

2024-25 Daniel Hand High Key Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Daniel Hand High is a comprehensive public high school in Madison, CT located about 19 miles up the Long Island Sound coast from New Haven, CT. It serves approximately 830 students in grades 9 through 12. Its boys varsity basketball team competes in the Quinnipiac Division of the Southern Connecticut Conference. The t... Read more

2024-25 Archbishop Stepinac Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Archbishop Stepinac High School is an all-boys’ Roman Catholic high school in White Plains, New York. The boys varsity basketball team under Coach Pat Massaroni has helped lead a surge of Greater New York City basketball back into being considered one of the nation’s premier sources for High Major college recruiti... Read more

Lawrence Woodmere Academy Varsity Blue 2024-25 Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Lawrence Woodmere Academy is an independent school located in Woodmere, NY a hamlet in Nassau County, Long Island. It is accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools and the New York State Board of Regents. The history of the Academy began with the founding of Lawrence Country Day School in 1891 ... Read more

2024-25 Masters School - New York Player Profiles

The Masters School is a rigorous, college preparatory, five and seven-day boarding and day school located on 96 acres, 12 miles north of New York City. The boys varsity basketball team is coached by Joey Kuhl. Kuhl had previously coached in the NBA’s G League, at the Air Force Academy and at Iona College. The team competes in a local confer... Read more

2024-25 Putnam Science Elite Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Putnam Science Academy is one of the premier prep school programs in the nation. It has won the National Prep School Championship Tournament four times since 2018. Although last March they lost to Link Year Prep in the finals of that championship, they still earned the 2023-24 #1 national computer ranking for their ove... Read more

Empire 8 Prep League Debut Season

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The path for talented high school basketball players to land a spot on a college roster, more times than not, involves taking an additional year of development as a post grad in a prep school program. This accomplishes a number of things for the prospects. One, it gives them additional year of physical and basketball d... Read more

2024-25 Greenwich Country Day School Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Greenwich Country Day School is a co-educational, independent day school in Greenwich, CT 39 miles from New York City. The boys varsity basketball team is coached by former college head coach, Pat Scanlon, who also teaches history at the school. The program has been on a steady rise since he took over six years ago. Th... Read more

2024-25 Loomis Chaffee School Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Loomis Chaffee School is a high academic, coeducational, college preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, including postgraduate students, located in Windsor, CT, seven miles north of Hartford. It was founded in 1874 by James Chaffee Loomis, a lawyer and politician. Seventy percent of Loom... Read more

2024-25 The Masters School (CT) Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Master’s School is an independent, college-preparatory, non-denominational Christian day school enrolling children in preschool through post-graduate, located on a beautiful 76 acre, 10 building campus nestled in the woods atop a hill in West Simsbury, CT. about 18 miles from Hartford. Its boys basketball pro... Read more

Mamaroneck High 2024-25 Player Profiles

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Mamaroneck High is a New York State public high school located on a campus in Mamaroneck, NY, about 28 miles north of New York City. Mamaroneck High educates students from the village of Mamaroneck, the town of Mamaroneck, and the village of Larchmont. It’s boys varsity basketball competes in the Class AA-1 of... Read more

Darrow School 2024-25 Player Profiles

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Darrow School is an independent, co-educational college-preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9-12 and PG. Its New Lebanon, NY campus is a 365-acre property just to the west of the boundary between New York and Massachusetts in the Taconic Mountains. Their mens’ basketball program runs two ... Read more

2024-25 Broome Street Season Preview

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Broome Street Academy Charter High School is a charter high school located in the SoHo section of New York City. Their boys’ varsity basketball team is head coached by Curtis Jackson (6th year) and he is assisted by Damel Carnegie (3rd year). In 2020 they went undefeated in route to winning the Charter School Schola... Read more

Kellenberg Memorial High 2024-25 Season Preview

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Kellenberg Memorial High is a private, independent Catholic school established in 1987. It is located near the middle of Nassau County, Long Island, NY. The boys varsity basketball team is coached by Christopher Lyons. Coach Lyons played DII collegiate basketball at Molloy College after graduating from Kellenberg Mem... Read more

2024 IS8 Nike Fall Classic Top Performers

By David Cordova, On Saturday, October 5, RecruitTheBronx.com made it over to Intermediate School 8 in Jamaica, Queens for the annual IS8 Fall Classic, in which club teams from the Tri-state area come out to compete in preparation of the upcoming high school season. Throughout the day, we got to check out three games on the schedule. Below are ... Read more

No Days Off Training College Prospects

RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Steven Johnston is an independent player development coach and founder of No Days Off Training LLC (aka NODAT Training). Purpose of NODAT is to provide comprehensive, high-quality basketball training that merges physical skill enhancement with holistic practices that nurture mindfulness, resilience, and a balanced life... Read more

2024 Mecca Ball Classic Top Performers

By David Cordova, On Monday, September 30, RecruitTheBronx.com made it over to the Elmcor Youth and Activities Center in the Corona section of Queens for the inaugural Mecca Ball Classic. This is a fall league in which some of the best high school teams in the city gear up in anticipation for the upcoming season. We caught a game that featured... Read more