By RENALDO DORSETT
Tribune Sports Reporter
rdorsett@tribunemedia.net
AHMARD Harvey became the latest Bahamian prep star to make the transition to NCAA Division I Basketball.
Harvey committed to the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers of the Sun Belt Conference and head coach Cliff Ellis. He will join the programme for the Fall 2019 campaign.
The former St George’s Jaguars standout took to social media to formally announce his decision.
“First of all, I would like to thank God for putting me in this situation. I would also like to thank my mother for all the sacrifices that she has made to allow me to pursue my dreams. Thanks to all the coaches who have pushed me along the way, especially coach Sears and Mcintosh for first giving me the opportunity when no one else did, I would like to give a special thanks to Aspire Academy for being my home away from home and for everything they have done for me. I would like to thank coach Ellis and the rest of his staff for their patience and commitment to me during this process. They made me feel like a priority from the first time I met them,” he said. “With that being said, I would like to officially announce my commitment to Coastal Carolina University.”
Harvey, a 6’6”, 210 pound wing player, joins the Chanticleers after completing his high school career with the Aspire Basketball Academy Wizards in Louisville, Kentucky.
Aspire Academy is a residential, basketball-centered college preparatory programme and training institute on the campus of Holy Cross High School in Louisville.
The Wizards have produced 18 players who have matriculated to NCAA basketball over the past three years, including 12 at the Division I level.
As a senior, he averaged 13.7 points, 9.3 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.1 steals per game.
The Chanticleers finished last season with a 17-17 record and concluded with a loss to DePaul in the semi-finals of the Roman College Basketball Invitational. He becomes the second Bahamian player to join the Chanticleers men’s basketball programme following Tristian Curtis.
Curtis spent four years with the programme and was named the Big South Conference’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year and was also named to the All-Academic Team as a senior.
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