Rose awaits three recruits
They’ll be on campus by mid-summer.
They are three basketball recruits BYU Dave Rose will welcome, two from LDS Missions.
Noah Hartstock, the 6-8 Oklahoma 6A all-stater and Jackson Emery are expected home by the end of June. Charles Abouo, a wingman from Logan High, spent the past league at a prep academy and he’ll be available to workout when his school year ends.
Of note, Hartstock is serving his mission in the Salt Lake City, Utah Mission, only a few miles from the Marriott Center. Emery is serving in Mexico,
Abouo helped his Brewster Academy team win the New England Prep School Championship and finish with a 34-4 record. He didn’t turn 18 until this past fall and could have been a senior at Logan High School. A native of the Ivory Coast, Abouo is 6-4 and played three years at Logan High where he earned all-state first team honors.
The interesting thing about prep school is that it does not count against college eligibility. Abouo will still have four years to play for BYU. The Air Force Academy Prep School has proven a valuable building block for the Falcon football team. Cadets can play for the prep school, learn how to execute the option, and then move on to the freshman year at AFA.
Brewster Academy finished 31-4 after losing to Hargrave Military Academy 102-93 in the semifinals of the national prep academy championships. Abouo played with some outstanding recruits who have already signed with Division I teams.
These players include Trey Blue (Fordham), Mark Lyons (Xavier), Anthony Carter (Ohio State) and Max Huc (Princeton). The best player on the team and MVP was Emmanuel Negedu, a 6-foo-7 Nigerian who will play at Arizona.
Playing for a team that’s used to winning titles, is a key for Rose when he recruits players. Abouo fits that mold.
Abouo was Utah’s 3A player of the year and 2007 MVP of Region 13 and was named all-state three straight years at Logan where he was the team captain.
This accounts for three scholarships. With the departure of Sam Burgess, Ben Murdock to graduation and Chris Collinsworth to an LDS mission, BYU’s staff has one more scholarship to give out for the fall. They haven’t targeted the use of this grant-in-aid, but are keeping options open.
There is a very good chance Trent Plaisted will decide to turn professional, likely for play in Europe, and that will make two scholarships open for fall. Nick Martineau, who is also going on a mission, was not on scholarship this past year. Matt Pinegar, who redshirted, is on the roster but did not use a scholarship this past year after returning from a mission.