Recruiting Report: Ishmael El-Amin (2017)
Ishmael El-Amin gave D1 Minnesota ten points, four rebounds, a couple assists, and a steal a game shooting 42.4 percent at the arc and 46.6 percent from the field over 40 games. El-Amin had an excellent summer. Ishmael has had…
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Continue ReadingIshmael El-Amin gave D1 Minnesota ten points, four rebounds, a couple assists, and a steal a game shooting 42.4 percent at the arc and 46.6 percent from the field over 40 games. El-Amin had an excellent summer.
Ishmael has had a lot of experiences with Grassroots basketball as he’s played a year with all of the shoe sponsored programs in Minnesota in the last three years.
“You know some of my top experiences was being able to travel the country and being able to play against some of the top competition around the country,” said El-Amin of playing for Howard Pulley, Net Gain, and then D1 Minnesota.
“I think AAU basketball has made me a better player because it pushed me to become better every day because there’s kids doing the same thing I’m doing every day and trying to reach the same goal as well.”
El-Amin joins fellow senior Simon Wright, committed to Elon, as seniors at Hopkins High School in charge of defending a state title. Wright is the lone returning starter and El-Amin the sixth man so they will shoulder big loads as younger players get ready to step in.
“Over the next three months I’m going to dedicate myself to the weight room,” El-Amin said. “I plan on improving all aspects off my game so I can have a monster senior year.
“Also I will be around a lot of my teammates who are young who will play this year and (I need to) just get them going so we have a real strong chemistry from day one.”
This July Denver U, Tennessee State, and Ball State all offered Ishmael scholarships and they are programs looking at him strongly at the moment.
“You know as of right now Denver, Ball State, Tennessee State, Nevada, and DePaul have shown the most interest in me,” El-Amin said.
“I don’t have any visits planned yet but in the next couple of weeks I will have all five visits planned out and ready to take. I’m looking forward to looking at all the schools.”