Courtesy of GoBonnies.com
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. – Josh Ayeni has accepted an athletics grant-in-aid with St. Bonaventure University and will join the basketball team this semester, Bonnies head coach Mark Schmidt announced.
Ayeni, a 6-foot-8 forward, is a native of Nigeria who came to the United States in 2011. He graduated from St. Frances Academy in Baltimore, Md. As a senior there, Ayeni averaged 14 points and 10 rebounds, earning third team All-Conference honors in the Baltimore Catholic League. His junior season, Ayeni helped St. Frances win the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association conference title.
Last season, he played at Impact Academy, a prep school in Sarasota, Fla. There, he averaged nearly 24 points per game.
Ayeni joins a St. Bonaventure program that shared the Atlantic 10’s regular season crown last season. He will be the fourth new forward on the roster along with Chinonso Obokoh, a graduate transfer from Syracuse, and David Andoh, a senior who transferred from Liberty, and freshman center Amadi Ikpeze. The Bonnies’ most experienced forward is 6-7 senior Denzel Gregg, the co-Sixth Man of the Year in the A-10 last season.
“We are extremely excited to have Josh in our basketball program,” Schmidt said. “He comes from a terrific high school program and has competed at a high level. He has the size and athleticism to be an excellent player in the Atlantic 10 Conference. We are expecting Josh to compete for playing time immediately.”
The Bonnies will open the 2016-17 season at home against St. Francis (Pa.) Nov. 12.
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