GW Basketball Signs Hermann Opoku For 2006-07
6/22/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
June 22, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC -- George Washington basketball coach Karl Hobbs has announced that Hermann Opoku has signed a national letter-of-intent to attend GW next Fall. Opoku, pronounced "oh-POE-coo," becomes GW's second signee for 2006-07 joining Damian Hollis.
Originally from Vienna, Austria, Opoku is a 6-foot-8, 225-pound forward from South Kent School in South Kent, CT. He averaged 5.0 points and 4.2 rebounds while playing limited minutes off the bench in his only season for the Cardinal as a senior under coach Raphael Chillious.
"Hermann is a long 6-8 player who can play small forward and power forward," said Chillious. "With his length, he can guard bigger players as well. He is freakishly athletic with close to a 40-inch vertical leap. He played on the perimeter and in the post for us. He's a very good defensive player who is just learning the game but should be a very good Atlantic 10-caliber player with time."
"We're delighted to have Hermann as a part of our GW family," Hobbs said. "We are particularly happy to have signed him at this late date. He's long and athletic and he fits in to what we're trying to accomplish here at GW. We feel that, athletically and academically, he will have a solid career."
South Kent competes at the highest level of prep school basketball against teams in the New England Class A Division. South Kent finished the 2004-05 season ranked fourth in the nation.
GW (27-3, 16-0 A-10) is coming off the best year in the program's 92-season history. GW became just the fourth team in the 30-year history of the A-10 to go undefeated in the league. After posting a 26-1 regular-season record that included 18 straight victories, GW won its first-round game in the Atlanta Region over UNC Wilmington prior to losing to overall No. 1 seed Duke in the second round.