Caleb Turner '21 Recruiting Profile

Hello Coach! 

My name is Caleb Turner.  Coming from a large family and being the oldest of nine children has instilled in me the need to be a leader and hard worker.  I have participated and excelled in swim team, cross country, and track. Due to overuse shoulder injuries the summer before my freshman year, I was forced to take a break from swimming and so decided to pick up basketball.  I fell completely in love with the sport and made a promise to become the best basketball player I could possibly be. 

I spent a couple of months before my freshman year training and learning the game and ended up making the JV team.  As expected, I sat the bench most of the season. After my ninth grade year, I knew that I needed to commit 100% to the sport and outwork everyone on my team if I wanted to continue to play; I was at a huge disadvantage in both skills and game knowledge due to my late start.   

Sophomore year, after only one year of playing ball, I became a starter on our JV team, and consistently scored over 10 points per game.  I was also invited to swing up and play with the varsity team. 

 Last summer, before my junior year, I attended basketball camps, played AAU with Gifted Outlier Hoops, and spent almost every second of my spare time, after work, in the gym and weight room.  My goal was to make at least 1000 shots every day and be able to dunk by the end of the summer, even though I was barely touching the rim in May. Standing at just under 6 feet tall, I am now consistently dunking in practice.   I am playing straight varsity and have started 6 games this season. My high school head coach, Josh Gwynn, has drilled into me the importance of “buying in” and playing every day as if it were my last, whether it is a drill, a suicide, a game, or simple things like bringing energy from the bench and helping a fallen opponent up.

Basketball is not the only place where I shine.  I am skilled in writing and rhetoric and literature, all honors classes.  I have a love for training and helping younger students in basketball, and I coach middle school cross country.

I firmly believe that whatever college roster I am put on, there will not be found a more driven and hard-working player than myself.  As Kevin Durant once quoted, “Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.” 

 If you are a college coach looking for a player with dignity, respect, attentiveness, unmatchable work ethic, athletism, craftiness around the rim, excellent midrange shot, and defensive threat,  you should consider me as your class of 2021 guard. 

-Sincerely, Caleb C. Turner