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Kenya Earl class of 2017 was excited and has taken her time to fill out her 1st college Div 1 questionnaire from Garder Webb Univ in North Carolina. When colleges recruit kids they have them fill out a profile and then all their info is fed into a data base where they send out information by email and postal mail, when they are of proper age ect. Gardner Webb Univ is from the Big South Conf and considered a mid major. Their men’s program recently got put on the map when 2 seasons ago they beat Kentucky in Rupp arena
kenya earl 3rd year vsg player
see the training dvd of kenya when she was a 3rd grader and her 1st year of league play back then below
for other recruiting info on Kenya ,go to www.presscitizen.com and search Kenya Earl for the article wrote about her
Acie Earl’s daughter, 11, already looking at colleges
Press – Citizen – Iowa City, Iowa
| Author: | Ryan Suchomel |
| Date: | Jul 15, 2010 |
| Start Page: | B.1 |
| Section: | SPORTS |
| Text Word Count: | 536 |
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Iowa City Press-Citizen
Kenya Earl, daughter of former Hawkeye Acie Earl, already has started filling out Division I college questionnaires and has her top five favorite colleges picked out.
Of course, Kenya, 11, has time to make up her mind. She is going into sixth grade at Lemme Elementary and is in the recruiting Class of 2017.
“She’s on the radar,” Acie Earl said. “I’ve taken her to the Final Four. People that have seen her; people know me. … If you are a smart coach, resourceful, you try to jump on it as quick as you can.”
Kenya and her father have attended camps at Rutgers, Tennessee and Illinois, among others. She filled out her first college questionnaire from Gardner Webb in April.
“It’s fun,” Acie Earl said. “We’re looking forward to the entire process.
“And I’ve told her just because you are a good player in fifth grade, doesn’t mean you will be in high school. That’s the hardest part to get her to understand.”
Kenya Earl already is 5-foot-8. Her father was a 6-foot-10 shot-blocking center who earned Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year honors at Iowa and spent four seasons in the NBA.
Acie said he dived into women’s basketball with both feet when his daughter started playing three years ago. He runs Venom Sports, a training program that also sponsors several teams.
The Venom Sports Girls won the 2010 National AAU 10U fifth grade championship, going 5-0 at the Great Lakes Shootout Summer Showcase on July 11 in Menomonie, Wis.
Other team members include , Tatum Koenig, Taylor Ryan, Abby Eckrich, Dani Lyons, Macy Akers
Acie Earl didn’t know if Kenya would end up at City High, but definitly not Regina or Solon by her freshman year due to the some of the parents from those districts who left Venom sports Girls and started their own team and recruited girls from Venom Sports Girls.
“With the success this group is having, we wanted to keep them together,” Coach Acie Earl said. “But At this point, some of the parents had other plans and motives so it too bad we havent. At times we think to just move away and start over as some parents and coaches dont understand what were trying to do and how it should be done. In my family alone we have had 1 NBA player, 2 NFL players and in my wifes family 1 NFL player and if you combine both of our families over 5 division 1 scholarship players. So it tells you , we have have a bar that is different then the average family. We as a family haven’t decided yet where she will go . But most likely It’s going to be what is going to work best for her.”
Acie knows it is very early to start the recruiting process, but said it has been something fun the two do together. The pair fills out NCAA Tournament brackets and then watched all the games on TV.
“TV now showcases women’s basketball,” Acie said. “Young girls can see that and have positive role models.”
Kenya’s favorite team at the moment is Tennessee with Rutgers second and Illinois third. DePaul and Stanford also are on her radar.
How young is too young? Well, a seventh-grade quarterback verbally committed to USC back in February. Both the Iowa basketball teams feature players that verbally committed as high school freshmen — Matt Gatens and Jaime Printy.
“I understand it’s more than what other parents do,” Acie said. “But our situation is a little bit different. I’ve been able to take my daughter to different camps; and play at some national events.
“And with my family having played Division I basketball, I understand the recruiting process a little bit more and am able to jump start that process and manipulate it.”
Reach Ryan Suchomel at 339-7368 or rsuchomel@press-citizen.com.
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Iowa City Press-Citizen Kenya Earl, daughter of former Hawkeye Acie Earl, already has started filling out Division I college questionnaires and has her top five favorite colleges picked out. The Venom Sports Girls won the 2010 National AAU 10U fifth grade championship, going 5-0 at the Great Lakes Shootout Summer Showcase on July 11 in Menomonie, Wis.
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NOV-14th 2011 kenya recieved an award from the AAU on her obtaining All-tourney MVP last year of the 5th grade state tourney. of 6 teams she was a leader in points,rebounds and block shots leading her team to the state championship at the 5th grade level in Des Moines.
