By: Brianna Shackelford
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (PURDUE SPORTS) – Purdue freshman guard Gicarri Harris is 1-of-20 gamers invited to participate in coaching camp for Mexico Basketball’s Nationwide Staff, beginning this week in Tucson, Arizona.
The invitees will play two video games on June 24 and 25, to try to qualify for a FIBA event in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the next week in hopes of advancing to the Olympic video games later this summer season in Paris, France.
Harris is invited as he owns twin citizenship with the US and Mexico.
Harris is one in every of two with Boilermaker connections trying to compete within the Olympic Video games. Zach Edey has certified with Staff Canada for the Olympics, however closing roster alternatives haven’t been made but for the Canadian squad.
Coming into Purdue as a 4-star recruit, Harris had an excellent scholastic marketing campaign in Atlanta, and was ranked as excessive as No. 66 within the nationwide recruiting rankings and the Tenth-best combo guard within the nation.by 247Sports. He led Grayson Excessive Faculty (Ga.) to its first State Championship as a senior through the 2023-24 season, proudly owning a 30-2 document and a top-25 nationwide rating all season lengthy.
Harris ended his profession as the college’s all-time main scorer and averaged 17.6 factors, 6.2 assists, 5.5 rebounds and a pair of.5 steals, whereas capturing over 57 p.c from the sphere throughout his senior marketing campaign.
Harris turns into the second Boilermaker freshman to characterize a nationwide staff this summer season, as classmate Daniel Jacobsen was a part of Staff USA’s U-18 squad that gained gold ultimately week’s FIBA AmeriCup in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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