Recruiting Report: Davontae Kinnie (2017)
Doesn’t really matter the level, but when you can boast that the National Champion and the Runner-up are both recruiting you, things are going pretty well. That is the case with Fort Wayne North (IN) point guard Davontae Kinnie. The…
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Continue ReadingDoesn’t really matter the level, but when you can boast that the National Champion and the Runner-up are both recruiting you, things are going pretty well. That is the case with Fort Wayne North (IN) point guard Davontae Kinnie. The 5’9 lead guard has a few programs focusing on him including the two teams in the NAIA National Championship game, Indiana Wesleyan and Saint Francis (IN).
Kinnie has been one of the players that has flown a little under-the-radar the last year but has enough potential to be an impact player down the road. With IWU and Saint Francis, Kinnie has two high-end programs with interest following a bit summer on the Grassroots circuit.
“It went pretty well,” Kinnie said of his summer with Club1 Lockdown Elite. “We traveled to a lot of big tournaments. I think I played great. I was able to knockdown shots and shoot it with confidence. Really wasn’t shooting the ball well with school basketball and I have been working on that so I think I played great.”
Trine and Western Illinois are two other programs Kinnie says are showing interest but the two that are standing out are the two Crossroads programs at the moment.
“When we went to Indiana Wesleyan, it was nice,” Kinnie said of the National Championship program. “I really liked the campus and the coaching staff. The coaches was saying they like how I play hard and compete.”
“St. Francis is a nice university and its in the city I live in so I wouldn’t mind going there,” Davontae said of the Runner-up National Champion. The head coach watched all of my games when we played in a tournament in Fort Wayne. They said they like how I play, I just need to keep improving on my jump shot. They said its not that I can’t shoot it’s just my form I get it off a little slow and I won’t be able to get it off that slow at the next level against quicker guards.”
He’ll be back with Fort Wayne North this fall and winter and looking to make a deep run as North is loaded with talent and one of the best 4A teams in the Northern half of the state.