Daniel James former England U18 is off to Monmouth
Former England U18 Daniel James has committed to NCAA Division 1 school Monmouth University. James, a 6’4 1991 born small forward from Huddersfield, has spent the last year at the Canarias Basketball Academy in Gran Canaria.
James, who has finally got a break after spending a large part of the last year rehabbing from surgery on a knee injury he sustained in the first game of the European Championships last summer, is excited about the move;
“The experience of playing for a Division 1 university is extremely exciting. Travelling around America playing different colleges will be a really great experience. They (Monmouth) have recently built a new 5,000 seat arena so I guess home games will be have a great atmosphere, real exciting, definitely can’t wait to get out there and get started with the hard work!”
South Dakota, Fairleigh Dickinson and the University of Houston all showed interest in the British baller, but it was Monmouth who won him over:
“I just thought it was perfect for me; I hope to be able to get gametime as a freshman, the location is great-who wouldn’t want to live close to New York! 10 minutes from the beach and an hour from philly so when I have time to myself I can get around a little, also it’s a relatively small university so I will be able to concentrate more on my studies.”
Monmouth, who already have Brit Phil Wait from Manchester on their roster compete in the North Eastern Conference. The Hawks’ last NCAA tournament appearance was in 2006.
Hoopsfix wants to wish Daniel all the best with his college career. I will be following!
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6’7? More like 2’3 on a good day.
My bad, that was meant to say 6’4, I got excited and hit publish before checking lol
for those who dont know who daniel is, he is number 10 in this short clip.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=466cpEgHiIY
LOL
LMAO!
Another Northeast Conference member school has two other Britons. St. Francis College of Brooklyn Heights, NY lists F Richard Clark and G Ben Mockford on the Terrier roster. Good luck to all!!
Ben was playing at Iona last season – looks like he’s transferred. Hopefully he gets more minutes at St Francis.
St. Francis is losing two solid backcourt seniors after this 2010-11 season. Both of them were among the conference top ten in scoring last year. It appears that the Terrier coaching staff is likely looking for Ben Mockford to provide the firepower they will lose from graduation, especially from three-point land. Although Ben has to sit out this coming season under the NCAA transfer rules, he’ll have three years of eligibility remaining, starting in 2011-12. Given his scoring talent, if he gets the minutes, he could emerge as one of the top scorers in the conference. Also, given the fact that the Terriers don’t list much size on this year’s roster, 6-9 junior Richard Clark has an opportunity to see more on-court time this season, than he has seen the last two years in Brooklyn.