{"id":6588,"date":"2012-10-10T12:58:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T12:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsr-inc.com\/blog\/?p=6588"},"modified":"2012-10-10T12:59:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T12:59:11","slug":"nsr-male-aod-derek-burchett-point-guard-from-waverly-high-illinois-ranked-1-in-his-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/nsr-male-aod-derek-burchett-point-guard-from-waverly-high-illinois-ranked-1-in-his-class\/","title":{"rendered":"NSR Male AOD: Derek Burchett, point guard, from Waverly High, Illinois, ranked #1 in his class"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Derek Burchett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our Male Athlete of the Day is Derek Burchett<\/a><\/strong>, a 5’9″ point guard who carries a very impressive 4.3 GPA with intentions of majoring in Criminal Justice.\u00a0 He\u00a0holds the top rank in his\u00a0senior class of 161 classmates at Waverly High School in Waverly, Illinois.\u00a0 With a long list of accolades, Dereck\u00a0tells college coaches in his personal essay that, “I am an honor roll student and a member of the National Honor Society and aspire to be a leader in the classroom, on the court, and in my other endeavors. I will strive for academic success in college just like I have throughout my High School years.\u00a0 I have a love and passion to play basketball.\u00a0 I am always working on ways to improve my game.\u00a0 I also have a passion to be stronger, quicker, faster and to jump higher, I constantly work on getting better in these phases 3 to 4 times every week.\u00a0\u00a0 I love this game with all my heart and believe without a doubt that I can play and make a team better and look forward to earning that opportunity in college.”\u00a0 As a junior, Derek was honored by being selected to the All Tournament Team at the Edinburg Turkey Classic, the\u00a0Waverly Holiday Tournament and the\u00a0Winchester Invitational Tournament.\u00a0 In the post season, he was named to the MSM All-Conference Team,\u00a0selected Honorable Mention All-State, IBCA Special Mention All-State, State Journal Register All-Area Team and the Jacksonville Journal Courier All-Area Team.\u00a0 In his scouting report on Dereck, NSR<\/strong> scout Tyler Dihle<\/strong> says, “Derek is an incredibly skilled point guard.\u00a0 He is strong with the basketball with either hand.\u00a0 He can blow by defenders and either create his own shot or distribute the ball.\u00a0 Derek also shoots the ball well from outside.\u00a0 His work ethic is outstanding both on the court and in the classroom.\u00a0 He is constantly working to improve his game and his gpa is better than perfect.\u00a0 Derek’s skills and leadership would be an asset to any school lucky enough to land him.”<\/p>\n

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Our Male Athlete of the Day is Derek Burchett, a 5’9″ point guard who carries a very impressive 4.3 GPA with intentions of majoring in Criminal Justice.\u00a0 He\u00a0holds the top rank in his\u00a0senior class of 161 classmates at Waverly High School in Waverly, Illinois.\u00a0 With a long list of accolades, Dereck\u00a0tells college coaches in his … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6592,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588\/revisions\/6592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}