Waters Announces Commitment to Georgetown
Tremont Waters went back to the school where he first learned to play to announce his college decision.
Waters and his parents sat down at the Farnam School in New Haven with three hats in front of him - Georgetown, Indiana and Kentucky.
It was only about two minutes in that he announced he would be a Hoya and for the better part of the next 30 minutes he discussed his decision making process, his roots in the city of New Haven and future ambitions among other things.
Waters has been a star in New England literally since his first high school game, when he went off for 37 points as a freshman for South Kent in 2013 National Prep Showcase, an accomplishment that was totally unprecedented at that type of national post-graduate event. He went on to score his 1000th point at South Kent before the end of his sophomore season, contined to grow his game as a junior and then joined Expressions Elite to help them make a run to the quarterfinals of the EYBL Finals at the Peach Jam.
His talents earned him scholarship offers from the very highest levels of college basketball, but now before he heads off to Georgetown, where he'll inevitably be considered one of the best freshmen point guards in the country, there is one last stop on his high school journey and Wednesday's announcement was symbolic of it in many ways.
Waters is returning to New Haven, playing in the CIAC for the first time and suiting up for Notre Dame West Haven for his senior year.
It isn't a knock, only a fact that Waters himself made light of on Wednesday, to say the level of competition won't be anywhere close to what he's experienced over the course of the last three years, but obviously isn't what this is about. This is about him coming home to spend a year with his parents, perhaps for the last time, and really embracing a community that he has been away from for the last three years.
That community embraced him on Wednesday, remembering the boy who grew up in the Farnam House and looking forward to future Big East tournaments at Madison Square Garden.
Below are some of Water's highlights over his decorated high school career including an early documentary from Ballas TV:
Tremont Waters