Recruiting roundup: Maryland fans make pitch for football five-star Nyckoles Harbor

A refrain of chants broke out in the course of the first timeout of No. 22 Maryland males’s basketball’s sport in opposition to No. 16 Illinois on Dec. 2. 

The record-setting pupil part repeated “We would like Nyck” within the route of five-star soccer athlete Nyckoles Harbor, who was sitting courtside alongside Maryland soccer coach Mike Locksley, former males’s basketball coach Gary Williams, ESPN anchor Scott Van Pelt and star tennis participant Frances Tiafoe.

Beforehand, papers got out informing the followers that Harbor was in attendance. Folks had been requested to chant after the sixteenth minute, and the paper informed them to be at liberty to ask for an image and to counsel to the native recruit that he ought to “keep dwelling.”

The Terps and their fanbase put forth a heavy push for the participant ranked by 247Sports because the eleventh greatest in his class. Maryland additionally gained the basketball sport.

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On3 offers the Terps the fourth highest odds to land the native prospect, behind Michigan, LSU and South Carolina. Harbor is listed at 6-foot-5, 225 kilos, whereas incomes reward from On3 as among the finest sprinters within the nation. 

If he had been to decide to Maryland, he could be the one participant above a three-star rating to this point within the 2023 class, per 247Sports. He would even be the one Maryland commit among the many high 600 nationally ranked gamers within the class, drastically serving to a Terps commit listing which is ranked by 247Sports because the forty seventh greatest within the nation — their lowest rank since 2015.

Commits

Males’s Lacrosse

Henry Hasselbeck, 2024, Midfield

Xaverian Brothers Excessive Faculty in Westwood, Massachusetts

The son of former NFL quarterback Matt Hasselbeck performed a number of sports activities for his highschool, together with because the quarterback for his soccer workforce. Whereas not utterly shutting out soccer, his father informed the Baltimore Solar that the supply must be “spectacular” for Hasselbeck to decommit.

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Hasselbeck is a 6-foot-3, 185-pound, four-star midfielder. He’s already the eighth participant who’s ranked as a four-star or greater to decide to Maryland males’s lacrosse, per Inside Lacrosse. 

Ladies’s Soccer

Dani Gichner, 2024, Defender

Eclipse Choose in Arlington Heights, Illinois

Per week after girls’s soccer landed two gamers, two further gamers within the class of 2024 dedicated this week. Gichner is ranked by High Drawer Soccer as a three-star defender who, in 2021, earned ECNL all-conference honors within the midwest.