In the highly competitive US College basketball system it is rare for one Aussie talent to be scouted from an Australian club let alone multiple.
So for FIVE teammates to catch the eye and win spots on American college teams is an incredible achievement.
But that's exactly what Sandringham's Fab Five have done.
Kobe Williamson, Kingsley Box, Tyrone Simos, Brody Nunn and Sam Taulapiu were all part of the Sabres most successful basketball junior team and will now take the next big step in their careers when they head to the US to fulfil scholarships.
Williamson and Nunn have both accepted offers from the University of Seattle, Box is headed to Southern Utah, Simos will land at North Carolina's Gardner Webb University with Taulapiu joining South Plains College in Texas.
After a long wait with VISA delays due to Covid-19, the talented teens will head to America from this month with the youngest, Nunn, to follow in 2021 after completing his VCE this year.
Sandringham under-18 coach Matt Nunn said the exciting prospects were reaping reward for their dedicated efforts.
"They're very hard-working young athletes. The boys work out at 6am every morning before school, they're shooting up to 4000 shots a week. They are real role models to any basketballer that wants to go to college and not just college but Division 1 schools."
Earlier this year, the Fab Five were part of the Victorian State team at the under-20 national championships in Canberra.
Williamson, who was last year named Basketball Victoria's junior male of the year, averaged 15 points and eight rebounds across the campaign, Box was in the top 15 scorers while Nunn broke a tournament record for three-point percentage (63 percent).
In 2018, they played influential roles for the Sabres who knocked off the previously-undefeated Melbourne Tigers, who boasted NBA Global Academy-bound Josh Giddey, in the under-18 Victorian Championship Grand Final.
https://twitter.com/adekponya_/status/1232595793996959746?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwSouthern Basketball Association president Phil McFarlane said the Sabres were incredibly proud of their exports.
"The boys started back in the under-9's and have advanced through our junior programs to get to this level which is testament to our structure and having community-based sport supporting the growth of basketball for junior basketball. It's an amazing result,'' he said.
"The boys will now develop their career path and studies and we hope to see them come full circle and back in our colours, representing Sandringham, again in the future."
In the highly competitive US College basketball system it is rare for one Aussie talent to be scouted from an Australian club let alone multiple.
So for FIVE teammates to catch the eye and win spots on American college teams is an incredible achievement.
But that's exactly what Sandringham's Fab Five have done.
Kobe Williamson, Kingsley Box, Tyrone Simos, Brody Nunn and Sam Taulapiu were all part of the Sabres most successful basketball junior team and will now take the next big step in their careers when they head to the US to fulfil scholarships.
Williamson and Nunn have both accepted offers from the University of Seattle, Box is headed to Southern Utah, Simos will land at North Carolina's Gardner Webb University with Taulapiu joining South Plains College in Texas.
After a long wait with VISA delays due to Covid-19, the talented teens will head to America from this month with the youngest, Nunn, to follow in 2021 after completing his VCE this year.
Sandringham under-18 coach Matt Nunn said the exciting prospects were reaping reward for their dedicated efforts.
"They're very hard-working young athletes. The boys work out at 6am every morning before school, they're shooting up to 4000 shots a week. They are real role models to any basketballer that wants to go to college and not just college but Division 1 schools."
Earlier this year, the Fab Five were part of the Victorian State team at the under-20 national championships in Canberra.
Williamson, who was last year named Basketball Victoria's junior male of the year, averaged 15 points and eight rebounds across the campaign, Box was in the top 15 scorers while Nunn broke a tournament record for three-point percentage (63 percent).
In 2018, they played influential roles for the Sabres who knocked off the previously-undefeated Melbourne Tigers, who boasted NBA Global Academy-bound Josh Giddey, in the under-18 Victorian Championship Grand Final.
https://twitter.com/adekponya_/status/1232595793996959746?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwSouthern Basketball Association president Phil McFarlane said the Sabres were incredibly proud of their exports.
"The boys started back in the under-9's and have advanced through our junior programs to get to this level which is testament to our structure and having community-based sport supporting the growth of basketball for junior basketball. It's an amazing result,'' he said.
"The boys will now develop their career path and studies and we hope to see them come full circle and back in our colours, representing Sandringham, again in the future."
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