WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - William
and Mary men's basketball head coach
Tony Shaver announced the signing of 6-5
guard
Daniel Dixon (Great Falls, Va./Langley/Fishburne), 6-6 wing
Omar Prewitt (Mount Sterling, Ky./Montgomery County),
6-4 point guard
Mike Schlotman (Munster, Ind./Munster) and
6-9 forward
Jack Whitman (Lexington,
Ky./Lexington Catholic) to National Letters of Intent (NLI) on Wednesday. Dixon,
Prewitt, Schlotman and Whitman will be eligible to compete for the Green and
Gold in the fall of 2013.
"We are extremely excited to add
these four young men to our program," Shaver said. "Our staff identified four
areas that we wanted to help strengthen our team for the future. We were
looking for certain qualities and positions to be filled with this recruiting
class. We have signed four student-athletes who are great fits for William and
Mary as quality people, students and basketball players."
Here is a look at the Tribe's 2013 Signing Class:
Daniel Dixon
Guard
6-5 • 185
Great Falls,
Va./Langley/Fishburne
Attending postgraduate school at Fishburne Military ... VirginiaPreps.com
Group AAA All-State selection as a senior at Langley High School ... Scored 20 or
more points in five straight games during the month of February en route to
earning Liberty District Player of the Year honors ... All-Northern Region First
Team honoree ... Averaged 18.2 points per game as a senior and made 53 3-pointers,
placing third and second, respectively, in the district in those categories ...
Shot 75.2 percent from the free throw line ...
Led Langley to a 17-9 overall record in 2011-12, including a 13-1 mark in the
Liberty District ... Selected to the Liberty District All-Tournament team ... Scored 17 points in the NVABBC
All-Star Game for the Liberty/National Team ... Named to the Suburban All-Star
roster for the 39th Capital Classic ...
Washington
Post All-Met selection in 2012 ... A
Second-Team All-Liberty District as a junior, averaging 12.2 points per game ...
Named Rookie of the Year by the
Sun-Gazette
newspaper in 2011 ... Played for the Fairfax Stars AAU program on the U17 Premier
Showcase team ... Helped the VA Cardinal to an 11th place in the 2010 AAU D1
National Championship and finished the year ranked No. 17 nationally ... Son of
David and Terri Dixon.
Head Coach Tony Shaver on Dixon ...
"Daniel is an athletic shooting guard with great
versatility. He is an excellent 3-point shooting threat but can score in a
variety of ways. I love his decision-making ability and the fact that he is a
long rangy player who takes pride in how he plays on the defensive side of the
ball. Daniel is taking a post-graduate year at Fishburne Military School under
Coach Ed Huckaby. Ed takes a collegiate approach to his team, so Daniel will be
mentally and physically ready for the college game."
Omar Prewitt
Wing
6-6 • 180
Mount Sterling, Ky./Montgomery County
Rated the 12th-best player in the state
of Kentucky, regardless of class based on collegiate potential by the Rick
Bolus' High Potential Recruiting Service in 2012, including the No. 6 player in
the Class of 2013 ... Selected as one of six core players for the Kentucky Junior
All-Star team ... Led Kentucky with 18 points, including four 3-pointers, in a
scrimmage against the Indiana Junior All-Star team in June of 2012 ... Named
Second-Team All-State by both the
Lexington
Herald Leader and the
Louisville
Courier Journal ... Ranked
ninth in the state in scoring at 21.4 points per game as a junior... Shot 40.7
percent (83-of-204) from 3-point range, hitting nearly 2.5 3-pointers per game
... Averaged a double-double adding 10.4 rebounds per game to go with 2.0
assists, 1.4 steals and 1.8 blocked shots per game ... Scored 40 points to go
with 21 rebounds against Maysville St. Pat on Feb. 3, 2012 ... Hit 8-of-11 from
3-point range in a victory over Bourbon County on Jan. 10, 2012, finishing with
30 points ... On pace to become Montgomery County's all-time leader in scoring,
ranking second entering the 2012-13 at 1,771 points, less than 100 shy of the
all-time record ... Ranks fifth in school history in rebounding at 749 and is on
pace to set that school mark as well ... Montgomery County's all-time leader at
265 over his first three years ... Played
AAU with The Ville ... Helped The Ville to the Best Buy Classic
Division I gold bracket title in Chicago during May of 2012, scoring 22 points
in the championship game ... Turned in a 40-point performance, including an
8-of-9 clip from 3-point range, for The Ville in Orlando during July of 2012,
which was rated one of the top five performances of the summer ... Featured on
ESPN.com in its "Players to Watch" segment after the Adidas Invite in July of
2011 ... Two-star recruit by Scout.com ... Son of Omar Sr. and Lea Prewitt … Mother, Lea Wise-Prewitt, was
an All-SEC player at Kentucky, before coaching Centre College (Ky.) to the
Division III NCAA Final Four and being inducted in the Kentucky Athletics Hall
of Fame ... Sister, Maggie, was a two-time
All-American in basketball at Centre College (Ky.).
Head Coach Tony Shaver on Prewitt ...
"Omar is an extremely versatile player who is capable of
playing multiple positions in our system. He is an elite shooter but also
rebounds and passes the ball very well. He can play above the rim but has even been
used as a point guard by both his high school and AAU teams. Omar is coached by
the legendary Happy Osborne at Montgomery County in Kentucky."
Mike Schlotman
Point Guard
6-4 • 185
Munster, Ind./Munster
Selected to the Indiana
Basketball Coaches Association Junior All-Star Team in 2012 ... Plays for Mike Hackett at
Munster High School, helping the program to a 42-5 mark as the Mustang's
starting point guard ... Led Munster to a 17-4 record in 2011-12, averaging 11
points and 4.5 assists per game to go along with nearly five rebounds and two
steals per contest ... A two-time All-Area selection ... Started as a sophomore,
helping Munster to a 25-1 mark, advancing to the state final four after
sectional and regional championships ... Averaged five points and three rebounds
per game as a sophomore to go with a 3-to-1 assist to turnover ratio ... An
Indiana Basketball Coaches Association top 100 underclassmen participant ...
Rated the 14th-best player in the state of Indiana by ESPN and the 89th best
point guard in the country ... Carries a 3.7 GPA at Munster ... Had offers from
Davidson, Western Michigan, UIC, American and Vermont ... Played AAU for the SYF
Players … Son of Chris and Joan Schlotman.
Head Coach Tony Shaver on Schlotman ...
"Mike is the consummate point guard and is such a winner. His
high school team has gone 66-8 in the last three years. He
has the unique ability to make everyone around him better. At 6-4, he is tough,
strong, can shoot it and break down opposing defenses off the dribble. For four
years, he has been the floor general for Coach Mike Hackett at Munster High
School, which is one of the best programs in the state of Indiana."
Jack Whitman
Forward
6-9, 210
Lexington, Ky./Lexington Catholic
Three-star recruit by Scout.com ... First-Team All-State in
Kentucky as a junior, averaging a double-double with 19.8 points and 10
rebounds per game ... Played AAU for the Tennessee Travelers as one of only 40
teams nationally sanctioned to participate in the Nike EYBL ... Recorded
a pair of double-double efforts and led all players at the prestigious event in
Minneapolis in rebounding average (10.5) in April of 2012 ... Rated the
ninth-best player in the state of Kentucky, regardless of class, based on
college potential by the Rick Bolus' High Potential Recruiting Service in 2012,
including the No. 3 player in the Class of 2013 ... Scored 29 points, 19 rebounds
and five blocked shots in a win over Henderson County in January of 2012 ...
Scored 35 in an overtime loss to Lafayette in January of 2012 ... Shot 64
percent from the field, had 81 blocked shots and 23 steals as a junior ... Son of Hank and Julie Whitman … His
father, Hank,
played
football at Vanderbilt … His
brother, Will, is a lineman on the
Harvard
football team and was a finalist for the Jerry Rice Award, honoring the
outstanding freshman in the Football Championship Subdivision in 2011.
Head Coach Tony Shaver on Whitman ...
"We have loved Jack since the first time we saw him play.
Jack is a 6-9 big man with great athleticism and versatility. He runs the floor
well and can play inside and out, which we love our big men to be able to do.
His skill level is high and has continuously improved under Brandon Salsman at
Lexington Catholic, a storied program in Kentucky."
