Souderton senior Luke Moyer signed a letter of intent to play basketball at the University of Richmond. During his senior season, Moyer helped lead Souderton to a state playoff berth, averaging 15.4 points a game. The recruiting process began after Moyer attended Richmond’s elite basketball camp the summer after his junior year. He has been in Richmond since June 17 and will be traveling to Italy with the Spiders August 10 to compete internationally.
Luke Moyer – University of Richmond (Basketball)
Major: Undecided
Final list of schools: Richmond, Siena, St. Francis University of PA
Reasons for choosing Richmond: “I loved the campus, players and coaches. Richmond is in one of the better basketball conferences, the Atlantic 10, and I believe this will give me the best opportunity to continue to improve my skills and also get a great education.”
What was the progression that led you to playing basketball at the collegiate level? “Both of my older sisters (Dana and Ingrid) played soccer at the Division One level, and I visited a lot of college campuses watching their soccer games. I played soccer until ninth grade but then began focusing completely on basketball. I played AAU basketball during the summers and traveled throughout the East Coast playing against some of the top AAU travel teams.
“After my junior year, I attended several different college basketball camps, and one was at the University of Richmond. After the first day of camp, I had a good feeling about the university, the coaches and the team. By the end of the second day, the coaches had offered me a spot on the team after high school.
“The support of great coaches, teammates and trainers has helped make this opportunity possible. I have trained with some of the top trainers, including Micah Lancaster who helped me develop my skills and took me to a higher level. I am so thankful for the wonderful teammates I balled with and the leadership of some great coaches like Dennis & Colin (Stanton), Tony (DaCosta) at Dock, Thurm (Cameron), my AAU coach, and growing up in SHYBA with John Mardi over the years.”
Coach Dennis Stanton says: “Probably Luke’s greatest strength as a basketball player is his unbelievable work ethic. He worked harder than maybe any high school player I have seen at his game. He was obsessive about getting better, and he went from an honorable mention all-conference player as a junior to one of the best point guards in the district.
“He improved a lot, and it was also him buying into what we were about, what the team was about. As a transfer in from Christopher Dock – it’s never easy to transfer into a school. Last year was more of his transition into the school district and into the team, but this year, you watched games where Luke, Ryan (Connolly) and Mark (Wonderling) were really on the same page together. I think that contributed to his success as an individual player and also our success as a team.
“The biggest change we made from last season to this season was we pushed the ball a lot more in transition, and Luke did a nice job of either rebounding it himself or getting it and pushing it up to one of the other players. He’s a very good passer in transition. He’s extremely good with the pick and roll, so his ability to come off the pick and roll – his elbow jumpshot was one of the best in the league, but he also did a nice job of coming off the pick and roll and finding Ryan Connolly. As a point guard, he did a nice job of limiting his turnovers, which is very nice attribute to have, and he scored the ball at a really great clip. He shot over 50 percent from the floor and scored almost 16 points a game.
“The Atlantic 10 is a high level of basketball, and Richmond is not only one of the premiere academic institutions in the country, it also is a premiere basketball program. He had a full ride offer on the table to go to St. Francis of PA, and he chose to go to Richmond.
“Luke has already been there for two weeks working out and taking classes. He’s very motivated, and I told him, ‘It’s an everyday opportunity for you to get better as a player and also grow as a person because you’re going to be faced with the kind of adversity you’ve never been faced with before.” One of the freshmen that is there was ‘Mr. Basketball’ from Texas, so the best player from Texas is one of his freshmen teammates. He’s playing with some of the best players in the country, but he wouldn’t be going there if he didn’t have the grades. Luke has done it in the classroom as well.”
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