Recruiting Report: Parker Ingamells (2018)
Last season, Hudson guard Parker Ingamells was playing injured, and still put up 17 points per game.
Oh, and the 5-foot-10 guard also led his team in assists and steals.
Now, he’s healthy, and after a fantastic summer with Iowa Prep 17U, ready to prove to everyone that he’s one of the state’s underrated guards.
Some Division III programs have already started to take notice.
“This summer is definitely when my recruitment started. I went to Central’s prospect camp, they’ve been reaching out to me, and I visited them,” he said. “I’ve been talking to Wartburg, Loras and Coe College too, they’ve been talking to me a little bit.”
We caught up with Ingamells for a phone interview during the middle of his cross-country practice, but he insists that hoops is his main focus.
“Basketball is my main focus. My goal this season is to make an all-state team, and I feel like that will help my recruitment,” he said. “And I feel like I get overlooked a lot for being small, so I want to have a good season to help myself out even more.”
A versatile guard, able to play with the ball in his hands or off the ball as a shooting guard, Ingamells defined his skill-set to PHIA.
“I would consider myself as a pick-and-roll point guard. I like to pass, but I’m not afraid to shoot the 3. And I can shoot the 3 pretty well, about 35 to 40 percent,” he said. “ Also, I can play off-guard, which is what I did for AAU.”
Ingamells reflected on his final grassroots season, one in which he played very well for Iowa Prep 17U.
“I started off this summer coming off of a knee surgery, so it was kind of a rough start coming back. But once I got back I thought I shot the ball extremely well, and that helped space the floor for the team and got everyone else open,” he said.
“And my defense picked up a lot, especially in July against the tougher guys I had to guard. And guarding them helped me out a lot with my defense.”
After missing one game with an MCL tear last season, Ingamells decided to play injured his junior year rather than have the surgery right away. He had surgery immediately after the season ended.
Now, he’s back to 100 percent, and ready to prove it.
“For me, my role will be to lead the team and to score. My expectations for myself are to average over 20 points per game, and average about 6 or 7 assists per game,” said Ingamells.
“And we get one of our top scorers back, who was actually injured last year. So I feel like that will help space the floor for me a lot, and allow me to do what I do best, and that’s to score and pass the ball.”