Meet Len Chenfeld. Chenfeld is a high school senior who made a big decision last June. Chenfeld left his cushy Upper East Side high school, Hunter College High School for Poly Prep Country Day School in Dyker Heights Brooklyn. Whats the difference between the two schools? Well, Hunter is known for sending its students to top Universities all around the country. While Poly prep has Coach Bill McNally and a top high school basketball program (Joakim Noah played there). Pol Prep has won two private school state championships and 10 league titles in the last 17 years. So, Chenfeld made the switch to work on his IQ...his basketball IQ.
Last summer, right before Chenfled left for the Maccabiah games he informed Hunter's coach of his decision. He then went on to win the silver medal at the Maccabiah games.
Chenfeld is only 5'9 and doesn't really have ambitions of playing in the NBA. But he would like to take his game to the next well, maybe at an IVY league school like Cornell or Columbia.
His move to Poly Prep has drawn some major national attention. "Jesse Shapiro, coach of Fastbreak NYC, the Amateur Athletic Union team that Len has helped take to the national tournament the past two years, called him 'hands-down the best white player, and one of the top five point guards, in the city leagues right now.' But after a wildly complimentary article about him appeared in February on Five Boro Sports, a Web site that tracks New York high school and college athletics, Len was denounced on blogs as “the most overrated player ever,' and was warned that nobody would ever 'take him seriously playing at Hunter College High School,' which was further ridiculed as being in a “cupcake league.' 'You start to read that stuff and it makes you think, ‘Am I overrated? Am I over-hyped?’ ' he said. “I know I wasn’t a big name in New York City basketball, but it’s a little shocking that anybody would care that much to write that stuff about me when they probably haven’t even seen me play. If I’m not worth it, then don’t post it.' - The New York Times Company
Regardless of what people are saying, Chenfeld has become a nationally known basketball player and for that we hear at TGR wish him congrats and good luck.
Below is a highlight video of Chenfeld from his Sophomore year at Hunter (note I play on that court all the time).
Last summer, right before Chenfled left for the Maccabiah games he informed Hunter's coach of his decision. He then went on to win the silver medal at the Maccabiah games.
Chenfeld is only 5'9 and doesn't really have ambitions of playing in the NBA. But he would like to take his game to the next well, maybe at an IVY league school like Cornell or Columbia.
His move to Poly Prep has drawn some major national attention. "Jesse Shapiro, coach of Fastbreak NYC, the Amateur Athletic Union team that Len has helped take to the national tournament the past two years, called him 'hands-down the best white player, and one of the top five point guards, in the city leagues right now.' But after a wildly complimentary article about him appeared in February on Five Boro Sports, a Web site that tracks New York high school and college athletics, Len was denounced on blogs as “the most overrated player ever,' and was warned that nobody would ever 'take him seriously playing at Hunter College High School,' which was further ridiculed as being in a “cupcake league.' 'You start to read that stuff and it makes you think, ‘Am I overrated? Am I over-hyped?’ ' he said. “I know I wasn’t a big name in New York City basketball, but it’s a little shocking that anybody would care that much to write that stuff about me when they probably haven’t even seen me play. If I’m not worth it, then don’t post it.' - The New York Times Company
Regardless of what people are saying, Chenfeld has become a nationally known basketball player and for that we hear at TGR wish him congrats and good luck.
Below is a highlight video of Chenfeld from his Sophomore year at Hunter (note I play on that court all the time).
And Let Us Say...Amen.
-Jeremy Fine
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