The Future of Prep School Basketball #shorts

What’s next for prep school basketball?

Coach Sean Crocker (Mercersburg Academy) predicts a shift toward European-style academies — and explains which players will succeed in that new system.

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Cory Heitz asks Coach Sean Crocker what the future holds for prep basketball. Crocker predicts a move toward a European-style system — shorter academic hours, athlete-centered training models, and a growing split between traditional prep programs and high-performance academies. He explains why only certain student-athletes will truly thrive in that new landscape.

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What do you see as the future of prep school basketball? Like, how does this world look in 5 years from now? I don’t know how drastic the shift’s going to be in 5 years. I would imagine that we’re going to get a lot closer to a European model in the next 10 to 15 years. All these schools popping up. They’re very focused athletically and go to class for 3 hours in the morning. You know, I think there’ll still be a place for prep school basketball, but I think that’s, you know, it’s going to be a special kind of kid that wants to be here, right? And so like all the schools in our league, there’s a reason to go there, you know, because you want more than just basketball out of that experience. It does seem more and more like college move very quickly into a pro model. And I don’t know how much longer we have to hold out before high school gets fully invested in that. I’m sure there are high school kids getting paid