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On the latest USA Basketball Junior Nationwide Crew Mini-Camp in Arizona, we had an opportunity to interview Koa Peat of FAB 50 No. 22 Perry (Gilbert, Ariz.). The 6-foot-8 rising senior (2025) is among the well-established gamers within the nation. He is additionally a Crew USA veteran who must be one of many main gamers on this summer season’s crew on the FIBA 17U World Cup, June 29-July 7 in Istanbul, Turkey.
If Crew USA captures the Gold Medal in Turkey, it was be a 3rd gold medal for the 17-year previous who might go down as essentially the most completed Arizona highschool basketball participant, ever. Peat, already a two-time Gatorade State Participant of the Yr, averaged a team-high 17.2 ppg throughout the 2023 FIBA 16U Americas Championship in Merida, Mexico and likewise contributed 8.3 rpg, 3.2 apg and 1.5 spg in six contests. He was additionally a part of the gold-medal profitable crew on the 2022 FIBA 17U World Cup in Malaga, Spain and for his accomplishments was named 2023 USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Yr.
We discuss with Peat about his camp expertise, his huge expertise with USA Basketball and what he hopes to perform this summer season, and to offer us some perception about not dropping a highschool playoff recreation but along with his senior season to return.
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