RISE MAGAZINE: Gatorade Utah Boy's Basketball Player of the Year
This entry was posted on 3/31/2008 6:39 AM and is filed under Boys Basketball News, Boys Youth Basketball.
UTAH POY - TYLER HAWS
RISE selects Lone Peak High School standout as Gatorade Utah Boys’ Basketball Player of the Year
In its third decade of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, Gatorade joined with RISE Magazine to name junior guard TYLER HAWS of LONE PEAK HIGH in Highland as its 2007-08 Utah Boys’ Basketball Player of the Year.
The 6-foot-5, 200-pound junior shooting guard averaged 20.8 points and 4.6 rebounds per game this season, leading the Knights (23-2) to a second consecutive Class 5A state championship. The returning Class 5A Player of the Year and this year’s Mr. Basketball selection as named by the Deseret Morning News, Haws added 3.1 assists and 1.4 steals per contest this winter. In a 57-55, double-overtime state semifinal victory against previously unbeaten Davis, he drained a game-winning 15-foot jump shot at the buzzer and finished with a game-high 25 points. In the state final, a 67-53 win against Bingham, Haws scored a game-high 22 points to earn Class 5A tournament Most Valuable Player honors. He concluded his junior season as the school’s all-time leading scorer.
Haws has maintained a 3.97 GPA in the classroom. An active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, he participates in numerous community-service initiatives, creating testimonial videos on behalf of his church. He also spent last spring landscaping and installing sprinkler systems as part of a fundraising effort for his Amateur Athletic Union team, Salt Lake Metro.
“He’s a once-every-20-years type kid,” said Lone Peak head coach Quincy Lewis. “He’s a winner, first and foremost. In two years with him in the lineup, we’re 47-3. He’s an outstanding shooter and scorer, but his consistency game in and game out is what makes him special. At 6-foot-5, he gets to the basket well. He has a really good mid-range game. Around here, they’re talking about him being one of the better players to come out of the state in 10 or 15 years.”
Haws will begin his senior year of high school this fall and remains undecided upon a collegiate destination
