Like it's about how you made people feel . My recruitment process was , was honestly kind of crazy . Um I uh officially got my first offer the first ever day of my sophomore year from uh Shante Leggins coach .
Honestly , the biggest reason why I believe schools recruiting me was the person I am and the energy I had . So how recruiting worked at my school , we would practice at like 6 a.m. And so my whole thing , I'm a morning person . So once I get to that gym and regardless if there were coaches there or not , like , with the coaches when they were there , what they saw was someone who had like , emphatic energy at like 530 in the morning , someone who was just kind of screaming his head off , incredibly intense , energetic , just wanting to play and compete at such an early morning , which , uh , I mean , a lot of people don't do and I think that's kind of what grabbed the attention .
He coaches now at University of Portland , who we play twice a year . Honestly , the biggest reason why I believe schools recruiting me was the person I am and the energy I had . So how recruiting worked at my school , we would practice at like 6 a.m. And so my whole thing , I'm a morning person .
I called him and we had a lot like a long standing relationship . He's recruited me ever since my sophomore year and we , I remember us talking and he was just like , um , that they , they had a spot available and then , um , you know , I , I was very interested and I told him I wanted to go , I remember when I got to Pepperdine , um , and I practiced all summer , I didn't think I was gonna play , like , honestly , I didn't think I was gonna play . And then I ended up getting put in , I was like the first guy off the bench in our first ever game .
And I think those were kind of the conversations we had and kind of what they fell in love after that , the ball kinda got rolling . I kinda got more offers . After that , I started playing with West Coast Elite uh Under Armour Association team .
