Prep Basketball

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South Kent has placed a renewed focus on its basketball program with additional resources to coaches and players. The program is now fielding three different teams – prep, varsity and junior varsity.

The prep team is the school’s elite players – 10-12 players of the highest caliber. The 30+ game schedule is played competing at the highest level of prep school basketball, against teams in the A division.

Philosophy

Playing hard and playing together is what South Kent Basketball is all about. We will create offense from our defense and look to score early and often. We will run the floor and always look to make the extra pass. We will play as a team and win as a team.

The idea is to prepare these young men for the challenges of competing in Division I collegiate basketball. Keeping that in mind we will run every aspect of our program as such, the members of the program are provided quality instruction with access to state-of-the-art facilities. Practices, individual instruction and the weight-training programs will be conducted at the highest levels. Athletes will be challenged daily and will improve at South Kent School. Our goal is to continue to produce quality students and quality athletes.

Coaching Staff

Kelvin Jefferson is the new Director of Basketball Operations and he comes to SKS from Colgate University in Hamilton, NY, and will lead the Prep Basketball team next season.

He brings 13 years of college coaching experience to his new post. Mr. Jefferson was an assistant coach for the Men’s Basketball team at Colgate, having joined the team in September 2007. Previously, he was an assistant coach at Stony Brook University for two seasons, and an assistant coach at American University for four years. He also served two years under former Vermont head coach Tom Brennan. He began his coaching career at Wesleyan University during the 1995-96 academic year. After that he spent a year at Salem State and then went to U.S. Merchant Marine Academy for two years.

A native of Norwalk, Conn., Mr. Jefferson is a 1995 graduate of Southern Connecticut State University where he earned a bachelor of science in journalism. A standout on the men’s basketball team, he led the New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) in rebounding as a senior, while also serving as team captain.

Mr. Jefferson and his wife, Chiquita, have a six-year old son, Jaedan, and a 16-month-old son, Tyler.