Austin Wood '14 Recruiting Profile

My name is Austin Wood and  I am entering into a post graduate year at Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, MA.  I have spent the last four years of my high school career working on my game and I wanted to take an extra year before entering college to develop more strength and continue working on my basketball skill set.  I also want to use the extra time to participate in internships and take extra classes that will help me to better pursue my college interests.  Throughout my career I have played both the point guard and shooting guard positions.   I have always been known as a shooter and an aggressive and effective on ball defender, but for the past two years my main focus has been developing my ball handling and dribble penetration skills as well as my court vision because I know that I will most likely be a point guard in college.

I am looking for a college or university that will challenge me both academically and athletically.  I am interested in business and engineering and I am looking for programs of study in those areas.  I am hard worker on and off court and I am self motivated to improve and do well in everything that I pursue.  I am looking forward to the next year and my eventual academic and athletic college career.