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Recruitment Through A Father’s Eyes: Interview With Claude Nembhard

You get to hear the player’s side of recruitment all the time, but you don’t often get to hear the parent’s side of the story. I was lucky enough to have a conversation with Claude Nembhard, father of 5-Star Gators recruit Andrew Nembhard, to discuss Andrew’s development as a player and what lead him to Florida. A longtime coach in southern Ontario, an area producing Canada’s best basketball talent, Claude is an extremely knowledgeable basketball mind and it was great to get to know him better. Here is our conversation.

EF: Claude, when I first started watching Andrew on the court the biggest thing that struck me was that he played like the son of a coach, and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible.