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New York Post
3 days ago
- New York Post
Basketball prodigy Delaney Walters putting Long Island on notice: ‘She's going to be a great one'
It's going to be a while until Long Island sees another basketball talent like Delaney Walters. The Centereach-born star has been playing varsity at her public school since seventh grade, where she put up surreal numbers — and shattered a record that went untouched for years — on the court surrounded by girls much older. 'I realized then that I could really do this, and the age I am at doesn't matter,' Walters told The Post. 'What just matters is how skilled I am and the work I put in,' the 14-year-old, 5-foot-6 guard added. Two years after her varsity debut, the youth prodigy is ready for a new environment and challenge as a freshman at St. Mary's High School in Manhasset, as Walters shoots to put the Gaels on the high road. 4 Centereach star Delaney Walters, 14, said she wants to go pro one day. Corey Sipkin / New York Post 'My goal is to try to get the state championship — and to make a name for myself,' she said after a ninth-grade orientation at the Catholic academy. 'To be seen by other colleges or schools and just be the best I could possibly be on the court. … I absolutely want to go pro one day.' Crossover to greatness The dead-eye shooter broke Centereach's record for 3-pointers in a season 'from around decades back' with 44 in seventh grade, when she first learned to trust her shot. 'That's when I began with long-range 3s. I would just shoot it and it would go in,' said Walters, likely to finish with six varsity seasons to her credit. 4 Centereach star Delaney Walters shoots a jumper at St. Mary's gym. Corey Sipkin / New York Post 'I was like, 'Wow, I guess I could really do this.' And I just started shooting from outside, like very far out.' Walters, who is already being invited to college camps, proved that her hot hand was anything but a lucky streak after putting up an eighth-grade season that most college athletes would envy. She averaged 18 points a game and shattered her own season 3s mark with an exclamation point, draining 66 shots from deep and earning first-team all-conference honors. No. 10, who was on pace to be the Cougars' all-time leading scorer, is already getting the green light from St. Mary's coaches to fire the ball as she sees fit in summer training camps. 'That was a little bit of an eye-opener for me,' she said of her early jaw-dropping numbers. 'It gave me more confidence that I definitely needed.' 4 Delaney Walters gets ready to shoot. Corey Sipkin / New York Post Full-court press Success is anything but accidental for Walters, said her lifelong trainer, Jerry Powell — who has enhanced the games of LeBron James and other NBA greats like Paul George. 'She has the right approach and the right attitude,' Powell told The Post, adding how impressed he is that Walters, by choice, completely stays off her phone during sessions. 'She's very cerebral. She picks up quick, and that's why the sky is the limit. … She's going to be a great one,' he added of the teen who works out five days a week. Like Walters herself acknowledged, he also observed her game reaching a significantly deeper level between the seventh and eighth grades. 'Sometimes when kids have an early success, they take their foot off the gas,' he said. 'With Delaney, she makes basketball the main thing. When you do that at a young age, you can't help but be successful.' 4 Delaney Walters goes up for a layup. Corey Sipkin / New York Post The top-tier trainer also said playing in a high-caliber environment like the one at St. Mary's will serve as iron sharpening iron to push Walters toward the WNBA dream — which she said would ideally come by way of a major basketball school like Duke or North Carolina. She's a fan of both teams, and nobody really knows why. 'I was told it was crazy when I was wearing a Duke hoodie and a UNC hat,' she said. 'Deep down, I think my heart wants to go to Duke, though.' Afterward, her dream draft would be to the Minnesota Lynx, as Walters aspires to be like guard Courtney Williams. 'She's super fast, and she's just so much energy,' Walters said. 'I really want to be like that.' Naturally, the Long Island teenager has also sought inspiration from Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors. However, she doesn't model her shooting after the NBA champ. 'I kind of just want to have my own shot,' Walters said, 'so people could look up to mine.'
USA Today
05-08-2025
- USA Today
Spartans are latest power conference team to offer Virginia 2027 RB prospect
Michigan State football joins Arkansas, Washington, Wisconsin and others in offering 2027 running back prospect from Virginia Michigan State football has extended an offer to a running back prospect from Virginia in the 2027 class. Ar'mand Stevens of Dumfries, Va. announced on Tuesday that he's received an offer from the Spartans. Stevens shared the news of his offer from Michigan State by posting on his social media X account. Stevens is a running back prospect in the 2027 class that plays for Pope John Paul the Great Catholic. He is unranked currently on 247Sports, and is listed at 5-foot-11 and 190 pounds. Michigan State is one of more than 10 schools to extend an offer to Stevens, according to 247Sports. He also holds offers from Arkansas, Minnesota, UCF, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Appalachian State, Bryant, Coastal Carolina, Eastern Kentucky and Georgia State. Contact/Follow us @The SpartansWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Michigan State news, notes and opinion. You can also follow Robert Bondy on X @RobertBondy5.
Boston Globe
31-07-2025
- Boston Globe
Trump plans to revive the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildren
In a late afternoon ceremony at the White House, Trump intends to sign an order that reestablishes the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, as well as the fitness test, to be administered by his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The council also will develop criteria for a Presidential Fitness Award. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up In 2012, the assessment evolved into the Youth Fitness Program, which the government said 'moved away from recognizing athletic performance to providing a barometer on student's health.' Advertisement The Youth Fitness Test, according to a Health and Human Services Department website last updated in 2023 but still online Thursday, 'minimizes comparisons between children and instead supports students as they pursue personal fitness goals for lifelong health.' Expected to join Trump at the event are a number of prominent athletes, including some who have faced controversy. They include pro golfer Bryson DeChambeau, a Trump friend; kicker Harrison Butker of the Kansas City Chiefs; Swedish golfer Annika Sorenstam; WWE chief content officer Paul 'Triple H' Levesque, the son-in-law of Trump's education secretary, Linda McMahon; and former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor, a registered sex offender. Advertisement The NFL distanced itself from comments Butker made last year during a commencement address at a Kansas college, when he said most of the women receiving degrees were probably more excited about getting married and having children than entering the workforce and that some Catholic leaders were 'pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America.' Butker also assailed Pride month and railed against Democratic President Joe Biden's stance on abortion. Butker later formed a political action committee designed to encourage Christians to vote for what the PAC describes as 'traditional values.' Sorenstam faced backlash for accepting the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump on Jan. 7, 2021, a day after rioters spurred by Trump's false claims about his election loss to Biden stormed the Capitol in Washington. Taylor, who has appeared on stage with Trump at campaign rallies, pleaded guilty in New York in 2011 to misdemeanor criminal charges of sexual misconduct.
