Talented New Zealand big man Sam Timmins has committed to join the University of Washington's recruiting class of 2016, as reported by Stuff.co.nz.
At just 17 years old, Timmins already has an impressive list of accomplishments, notably having played as an amateur in New Zealand's top basketball league, the NBL, over the past three years. In 2013 he became the then-youngest player to take the court in the league with the Otago Nuggets and after struggling with back injuries, has since impressed with the Canterbury Rams in this year's competition.
Indeed not many players of his age could compete for minutes so successfully with a former NBA player, as Timmins has done with Mickell Gladness, formerly of the Miami Heat and Golden State Warriors.