Prospect Spotlight: Sean Harlston (2019)
Compton Dominguez combo guard Sean Harlston is heading into his junior year balancing two challenging tasks.
First, Harlston gave up his quarterback duties of the Dons football team and now must assume some point guard responsibility on the hardwood.
“It’s going really good,” Harlston told Prep Hoops So-Cal about the position transition. “Coach Apple is making sure I’m making all the right decisions, getting to my comfortable spot which is inside the paint, and just picking and choosing my spots at the right time.”
The changeover hasn’t been a seamless development for Harlston, though, with the hardest part being learning how to harness his energy.
Dominguez guard Sean Harlston is benefitting from complete focus on basketball.“It’s more so when I see a fast break opportunity, I can’t always take it,” he said. “I need to bring it out, facilitate, make the right decision within the offense and just be a point guard. I just need to pick and choose my sports better and become more comfortable on the ball”
The strong and athletic 6-foot-3 junior is one of the hardest workers you’ll find both on and off the court, which he credits to his basketball evolution this spring and summer.
“Everything is becoming more natural on the ball,” he said. “I’m a hard worker, a team player and I get the job done on both sides of the floor.”
Harlston, who boasts a 4.0 grade point average, said that playing both football and basket at the college level was a dream of his, but he understands that goals change and he’s fully committed to basketball.
“At first it was,” he said. “ But now that I’ve been 100 percent basketball, I want to play basketball in college. Cal Poly SLO, Santa Clara and Cal Poly Pomona are the ones that have been on me the most.”
Harlston has plenty of time to continue to grow his game, which he believes will draw more eyes of college basketball coaches.
“I’m going to keep my grades up, but I’m hoping to get some Pac 12 looks,” Harlston said. “I need to keep evolving and separating myself from the other athletic point guards, but I have to find something I do best and separate myself.”