Why has AJ Mayo attended so many different high schools?
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The first public mention of Mayo occurred in the Ashland, Kentucky Daily Independent newspaper in an article called 'Phenom' in the paper's January 21, 2001 edition, when Mayo was just a sixth grader. In that article he was listed as being a "6-foot-1½ point guard with size 14 shoe". The article also mentioned that he had repeated a grade and therefore was ineligible to play varsity high school basketball as of yet.\n\nMayo commuted from Huntington to Rose Hill Christian, a private school in Ashland, since student athletes can play high school varsity sports as seventh graders in Kentucky. In the seventh grade, he put up numbers that dwarfed the production of players five years his senior. In his first game for his varsity team he scored 27 points, had seven rebounds and three steals. He was a seventh grader playing against juniors and seniors in high school. As a 7th grader, he was, however, the same age (14) as most 9th graders.\n\nDuring his seventh grade year in January of 2002, Mayo was mentioned in Sports Illustrated Magazine and on CBS Sportsline.com. There were also full articles in the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Huntington, West Virginia Herald-Dispatch and USA Today.\n\nAfter the completion of the basketball season during his eighth grade year, he moved to Cincinnati with Dwaine Barnes, a longtime family friend whom Mayo has often called his grandfather, in order to attend North College Hill High School near Cincinnati\n\nIn 2006, the 6' 5" 205 lbs. 18-year old junior point guard was selected as Mr. Basketball of Ohio for the second consecutive season, in addition to being named Associated Press Division III Player of the Year for the second consecutive season. He averaged nearly 30 points, six rebounds, and seven assists per game. He also led his team to consecutive AP poll titles and garnered much attention from the media, appearing in the pages of Sports Illustrated among other publications. Much like another Ohio high school star, LeBron James, Mayo has drawn large enough crowds to force his team into seeking larger venues to support the growing crowds, and often attracts National Basketball Association stars such as James and Carmelo Anthony to watch his games playing for the D-1 Greyhounds.\n\nWhen his team played a game in Huntington, 3,500 fans packed the Veterans Memorial Fieldhouse in order to watch him play. When his team played a game at Cerritos College, 6,500 fans filled a moderately sized arena to watch him play. On Martin Luther King Day in 2006, more than 10,000 fans came to Xavier University's Cintas Center to watch Mayo and North College Hill play Cincinnati Taft. In February, the largest crowd to ever see a high school game in Cincinnati, more than 16,000, watched North College Hill fall to the nation's number one rated team, Oak Hill Academy. Mayo had been considered a lock to make the leap straight from high school to the NBA, but the recent Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NBA and its players has instituted a rule that a player must be at least a year out of high school before he can enter the NBA, thus curtailing those plans. On July 5, 2006, it was reported by ESPN that OJ will attend the University of Southern California.[3] On July 8, however, WSAZ-TV reported that USC was one of only three that Mayo was considering: the other two were Kansas State University and the University of Florida.\n\nOn August 27, 2006, WSAZ-TV reported that Mayo will be enrolling at Huntington High School in Huntington, West Virginia for the 2006-07 school year.[4]
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its all a trend. in the future, all the boys will stop being jackasses and realize they have to get into REALITY!!!! they wont be as shallow in the future because theyll  kno the prep shït aint  gonna happen. dont worry, this happens at every school.
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You guys are crazy. Do your research first before writing any answer here. That high school and Michael Jordan stuff are what you hear from other people.\n\nNo it's not true.\n\nHe switched numbers to signify the second half of his career. Having been blessed for 10 NBA seasons, he feels like there's another half coming for him.
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Arizona is a pretty laid back state. Honestly... I don't think they care. The students just show up for class and most pass. I also think that a lot of teachers just don't teach the right things. It's not that students are stupid, it's just that when it comes to tests and such, they don't know the material. If teachers spent less time playing games in class and actually taught the material - students would be able to pass requirments for graduation. \n\nI grew up in Arizona. When I went to High School, in my first 3 years is when I did the most work. My senior year was all fun and games. The teachers wanted us outta there! lol. So I think they are lowering it because too many of the students aren't meeting requirements and they want more to graduate so they can move on with their lives.
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There's a Mendoza Elementary School in San Diego and Arizona
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yup...saw a behind the scenes...thing he did with his new team..small school in florida..but they are on the rise....
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Because you have to have a high grade point average to get in. So if you go to one of those schools everyone would know you are a very smart person.
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Sounds like a typical high school thing to do. He IS in High School, right? \nOtherwise, I would venture to say he has some growing up to do.
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High School:    Emsley A. Laney in Wilmington, NC\nCollege :       North Carolina Tar Heals\nPro Basketball: Chicago Bulls\nPro Baseball:   Chicago White Sox (Minor League Team)\nPro Basketball: Washington Wizards\n                USA Basketball Team\n                Many Eastern Conference All Star Teams\nRacing:  MICHAEL JORDAN MOTORSPORTS Team
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I don't know that the high schools do it to have better teams (in Texas or anywhere else).  But it definitely happens on an individual basis that the parent(s) hold back their kids (even though NOT academically necessary) so they will have a competitive advantage when it comes to sports.
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Single ... attended Southern University ... was a finalist for the 2003 Sullivan Award as the United States top amateur athlete ... earned the prestigious Golden Spikes Award in 2003 as the best amateur player in the United States ... named 2003 Baseball America's College Player of the Year ...
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because his number in highschool was 24 and wants to start his career again
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5 HS/Grade School\n5 College\n6 NBA
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My high school was/is a Catholic stuffy rigid academic school. We hardly did well in any sporting activity but always did well in the braniac areas. For the most part my high school was divided into 3 main sections. Students that were upper middle class that had something to prove(mainly popularity and materialistically.) Second group was the brainiacs that snubbed the popular kids with their braniac elitism. The third group were ones that were just trying to survive and not fall between the cracks of the system. We all wore uniforms and mostly from the same heritage.
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sorry i didnt read the question well\n\nprobably state college HS...theres 4 guys on the roster from there right now\n\nbut they dont target one HS by any means...they're all over the place
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I went to one in central Illinois beginning in junior high all the way until is was 16 (which was the cutoff).  I fought with my dad because I didn't want to go the first year and didn't want to be away from my friends.  I was sad to tell my father that I had the best time of my life. I made so many friends from all over.  All of the same people went back each year so it was good to catch up with everyone we didn't see  the rest of the year.  I still keep in touch with some people I met there and it was like 10 years ago.  It was a great experience that I would reccomend to all youths.
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Yes!My high school was awesome.We had tons of AP and honors classes, a great football team, tons of extracurriculars, and I was involved in alot of them. I had awesome friends and loved high school most of the time. It was the best time of my life and I wouldn't trade it for anything!