Creating A Culture With Kuyper College

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Kuyper College is quickly creating a college with it's commitments and striving to create uniqueness in the program. They will feature a varsity team and 2 development squads (JV). They are looing at 18 total spots on the development teams with 9 players per team. With the smaller roster sizes, they are aiming at creating true development teams where players can and will see the floor and play a role. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>In their aim at creating a culture, Kuyper College will play an exhibition game in Chapel Hill against the University of North Carolina JV team. The Kuyper varsity squad will play an exhibition game on Thursday, they will take a tour of the campus on Friday, and then on Saturday the JV will play an official game. The exact dates will be finalized at a later date. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a href="https://goheels.com/sports/jv-mens-basketball">https://goheels.com/sports/jv-mens-basketball</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The Kuyper College program is headed by Gary Bailey who won 7 national championships at Grace Christian. They have recently updated the gym and the weight room.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>THE JV COMMITS</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Creating a culture and a program starts and ends with the players putting on the jersey. Kuyper has a solid group of players ready to come in. 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They reportedly have verbal commitments from the following players:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Ashtyn Simerson</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Damon Jackson</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Javrius Gordon</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Hernandez Daylo</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>They are reportedly actively recruiting players including:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1076042' first='Grady' last='Schippers']</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Elisha Searcy</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Elijah Searcy</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Jeffrey Howell</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Demonta Hudson</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Braden Vandermeer</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1352913' first='Chris' last='Kendrix']</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1352911' first='John' last='King']</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Kaleb Gardner</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1300900' first='JP' last='Spybrook']</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1076045' first='Tyler' last='Robertson']</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Karmelo Taylor</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Demarion Travis</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Kuyper College's Coach Whitcomb is also recruiting players outside the state of Michigan.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->