Caelin Peters IslandStats.com Bermuda’s Youth National teams are in Pennsylvania taking part in a four day exposure camp at Slippery Rock University.
With the first day of competition completed, Caelin Peters from Mount Saint Agnes Academy was named most outstanding out of all the players in the Junior Division by coaches at the camp after his two-game performance in front of fans, coaches, and scouts left many of the coaches in awe.
Team Bermuda has 13 players in attendance in the Junior Division, which includes players from ages 13 to 15. Overall the camp has roughly 80 players in this Division from all parts of the eastern United States and Canada.
The games were live streamed on PASPORTSLIVE.com and the commentators were high on Peters the entire game. At one point in the first game, Peters drove to the Basket leaving a defender in his tracks. After he was fouled sending him to the free throw line the commentators proclaimed, “He really likes to shake and bake.” At another point in the game they continued, “He can really see the whole floor well.”
Peters has led his team, UConn in both scoring and assists in both of his games on the first day of camp. In his second game on court two, Peters scored 30 points with 18 coming in the first half. This included four three pointers and several drives to the basket, including one drive where he completed a dazzling spin move which let his coach shaking his head in surprise.
In the post-game interview on PA Sports Live, the commentator was really impressed with Peters and asked about how he prepares for competition, to which he replied “We went to Wolfpack Camp just before we came here, where we played two games a day as practice for this camp. Throughout the year we have a programme called Wolfpack Elite, and I also played up in the Men’s League so I could improve my skills.”
What Peters was referring to was the CellOne Island Basketball League where he and several of the BBYF’s other up and coming players “played up” versus men and women, sometimes twice or three times their own age. In fact Peters was named the Most Valuable player of the CIBL at twelve years of age and is no stranger to playing up. In the fall, Peters became the first player in Mount Saint Agnes school history to play for the Varsity High School team as a middle school player. In the Bermuda School Sports Federation Interscholastic Playoffs, Peters averaged 23.3 points per game and 8 assists.
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