Recruiting Report: Jack Studer (2016)
(Photos credit: Dennis Pleuss/High Timber Times) As a student-athlete who regularly aces his advanced placement courses, Conifer senior Jack Studer looks at this season’s team in the analytical fashion you’d expect. “In terms of skill sets, I’d say we’re one…
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As a student-athlete who regularly aces his advanced placement courses, Conifer senior Jack Studer looks at this season’s team in the analytical fashion you’d expect.
“In terms of skill sets, I’d say we’re one of the most skilled teams that I’ve ever played with,” Studer said. “We have all the pieces there. It’s just a matter of being able to fit them all together in the puzzle.”
Luckily for the 4-0 Lobos, they have a piece in Studer that can morph its edges to fit anywhere it’s needed.
“He can score. He’s long, fast, athletic. He has a mid 30- to 40-inch vertical leap,” said Conifer coach Eric Valerio. “He runs a 50-second flat 400 for our track team. He’s one of those kind of do-it-all kids. He’s one of those caliber of athletes who could play 31 1/2 minutes if I time it right and get him some extended rests at the end of quarters and things like that. He’s probably the highest motor guy that I’ve ever coached.”
The attributes that Valerio listed have helped the 6-foot-4 Studer turn in a sterling first two weeks as one of the leaders of what could be a surprise Conifer team. He entered Friday averaging 19.8 points, 10.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 3.8 steals per game.
“I try to do everything,” Studer said. “I try to get the most rebounds and still score the most points because I know that’s going to be what it takes for our team to do well. It’s good to have a bunch of kids around me who believe the same thing. That’s been a big part of my game so that I’m not reliant on one area.”
Studer has always been talented at attacking the basket, Valerio said, but this summer he transformed his jump shot, determined to turn it into a weapon that forced opponents to respect every other aspect of his diverse game. The results, albeit a small sample size, have evidenced the hard work so far. He has hit 7-of-13 shots from 3-point range and has done a better job of spreading defenses, thus giving himself and teammates more room to operate.
“We’ve worked so much on our shooting that that’s become a big part of my game as well,” Studer said. “I think my bread and butter would still be driving and getting to the line or finishing underneath, just because I can use my size and speed that way, but shooting has also become an important part of my game as we work more on it.”
Valerio believes Studer could be a strong impact Division II or Division III player, and his academic success should give him plenty of options.
“It actually kind of baffles me how few people know about him,” Valerio said. “I’ve tried to get his name out to a few coaches because he’s relatively raw, but he’s an exceptional athlete and he’s so smart that for the right program you can basically turn him into whatever you want to do.”
Studer said he is “pretty open” to where he would go to college.
“I just want to play somewhere,” he said.
Some program is going to be the lucky recipient of a highly moldable puzzle piece.