Recruiting Report: Holden Lipke (2018)
For Holden Lipke (2018), a 6’3”-6’4” guard from Youngstown Boardman, it’s all about academics.
“First off, good academics is probably the top priority. Again, you have to do something after basketball,” Lipke said.
Lipke enters his senior year at Boardman with a 3.9 GPA and a score of 27 on the ACT.
While he doesn’t have an athletic scholarship offer on the table, Lipke has been in talks with a several Division III programs about future plans.
“I’ve talked to Mount Union, Case Western Reserve, Marietta, Allegheny, Westminster, and that’s mainly who has talked to me,” Lipke said.
“Of those schools, probably Mount Union and Case Western Reserve [is where] I’d be most interested in going,” Lipke said.
However, in order to attend either of those schools, Lipke will need to chip away at the tuition costs with an academic scholarship.
“I would obviously like to play [college basketball] if the opportunity is right. If the right opportunity isn’t there, I won’t be crushed if I’m not playing college basketball. The money standpoint is a big kind of question mark,” Lipke said.
Lipke is considering a business major, but is not completely set on that decision right now.
Junior year… give it a rt ✊????https://t.co/hqP4IO8EFO
— holdenlipke (@HoldenLipke) July 6, 2017
Lipke is coming off of a unique summer. He played a couple weekends for PK Flash, a program out of Pittsburg, and went to a couple Hoop Group camps. Yet, he didn’t feel 100 percent during those weekend because of his ankle.
“I got surgery on my ankle. I injured it last basketball season and it never really got any better. I was hoping through rehab and everything that it would. But we decided surgery was the only way to resolve it,” Lipke said.
“I had an extra bone that needed removed, so that’s what I got done.”
Fortunately for Lipke, the recovery from this surgery may not cut into the season at Boardman whatsoever.
“The recovery, he said about a month and a half, I’ll be close to 100 percent. Maybe rehab after school will speed that up a little bit,” Lipke told us.
Boardman will need Lipke if they’re going to have a successful season. At 6’3”-6’4”, Lipke is their tallest player, even though he’s a guard. With that being said, he plays a major role on both sides of the floor.