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2020 - 2021 Player of the Year

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a picture of Chet Holmgren
BOYS BASKETBALL

Chet Holmgren

Center
MINNEHAHA ACADEMY
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA
SENIOR
Height: 7-FOOT-0
Press Release

Peak Performance

20.8

Points per game

12.6

Rebounds per game

4.400

Assists per game

4.7

Blocks per game
“Chet Holmgren is the greatest mismatch in the high school game because of his outside shooting, inside game and physical measurables. He displays uncommon versatility with his scoring prowess, ball handling and mobility and fluid movements.”
Paul Biancardi
ESPN National Recruiting Director
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Athletic Excellence

The 7-foot, 175-pound senior center led the Redhawks to a 20-1 record and the Class AAA state championship this past season. Holmgren averaged 20.8 points, 12.6 rebounds, 4.7 blocks and 4.4 assists while connecting on 68.2 percent of his field-goal attempts. A McDonald’s All-American Game selection, Holmgren is the 2021 Naismith High School Trophy Player of the Year and the nation’s consensus No. 1 recruit in the Class of 2021. He concluded his prep basketball career with 1,567 points, 964 rebounds and 456 blocked shots.

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Academic Achievement

Holmgren has maintained a 3.46 GPA in the classroom. He has signed a national letter of intent to play basketball on scholarship at Gonzaga University this fall.

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Exemplary Character

A member of his school’s Leadership Institute, a three-year discipleship and leadership-training program, Holmgren has donated his time to week-long tutoring and classroom-assistant duties at local elementary schools as part of Minnehaha Academy’s Cultural Field Experience. He has also volunteered on behalf of the Frog Town Boys and Girls Club and as a youth basketball instructor in addition to participating in goodwill/mentorship visits to lower school classrooms at his school.