Jabari Parker Receives First Scholarship Offer Plus Other Recruiting Notes

June 23, 2009

9:30 A.M. CST

Chicago basketball legend Sonny Parker has confirmed to us that Jabari Parker, the 6'4 class of 2013 guard from Simeon High School in Chicago, has received a scholarship offer courtesy of the University of Illinois.  Illini head coach Bruce Weber extended the offer while Parker was in attendance with his Simeon team at their Satellite Camp at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.  Prior to the Satellite Camp, Parker attended the NBA Players Association Top 100 Camp in Charlottesville, VA.  

We can guarantee that Parker's offer will not be the last one that the Illini will extend to the spectacular in-state trio from the class of 2013, which consists of Parker, 6'7 Tommy Hamilton Jr. from Whitney Young High School in Chicago and 6'6 Alex Foster from De LaSalle Institute in Chicago.  Ideally speaking, the Illini coaching staff would like to land at least two of these three players as members of their 2013 recruiting class. 

Hamilton and Foster are also participating at the Satellite Camp which concludes today.  Therefore, we think that it is only fitting to ask the following question: Could offers to both of them be far behind?  We believe that the answer is an unequivocal "no"!

Additional Recruiting Notes

We have also obtained several notable recruiting notes courtesy of Greg Ktistou, the coach of the Illinois Kings 17-under traveling team.

... 6'1 class of 2010 point guard Sean McGonagill from Riverside-Brookfield High School in Riverside, IL attended Eastern Illinois University's elite camp and recently took an unofficial visit to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.  In the week ahead, he will also be attending an elite camp at Brown and take a visit to William and Mary.

... Both 6'8 Jeff Dirkin from Oak Park-River Forest High School in Oak Park, IL and 6'0 shooting guard Nick Kladis from Hinsdale Central High School in Hinsdale, IL attended Penn's elite camp this past weekend.  In fact, the Quakers had a considerable number of Illinois-based players in attendance for that event, including 6'7 class of 2010 forward Mike Gabriel from Lincoln Park High School in Lincoln Park, IL and 6'5 forward Eric Dortch, who played his high school basketball at Evanston Township high school in Evanston, IL.

... 6'5 class of 2010 forward Justin Phipps from Lyons Township High School in Lagrange, IL was also one of the standouts at Eastern Illinois University's elite camp.

... 6'0 class of 2010 guard Nick Valla from Marist High School in Chicago recently attended the University of Northern Iowa's elite camp and is scheduled to visit Missouri State University and participate in their elite camp later this month. 

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