2014 Shooter, Reclassified from 2013.  Originally from Bowie, MD.  Rivals says GW has offered.

AAU:  Boo WIlliams

Rivals

ESPN

 http://247sports.com/Player/Anthony-Swann-27169

Rival$ article says GW is the leader. 

 Will people boo when he does well? Hawkward

 woops, thought Boo was the recuirt. ill stop drinking

Jeff Goodman:

George Washington lands Anthony Swan from Virginia Episcopal, a 6-foot-7 wing shooter with Boo Williams - source told CBSSports.

Jeff Goodman of CBS reporting that GW has landed Anthony Swan.

 Does that mean he will be on campus in the fall of 2013?

Fantastic.  I thought he'd be one of those kids who blows up right in front of our eyes.  Shot very nicely from the outside in EYBL play.

 6-7 shooter from wing, sounds good to me.  Just what the doctor ordered.  Now just need to find out when he will be arriving to play 2013 or 2014?

Class of 2014.  That means he'll start at GW the season after this next one. 

 Darn, wish he was coming sooner.  Still glad he's verballed to GW.  

I hope he doesn't blow up too much next year and decommits...

Upon further review, it looks llike I was cherry picking his best games.  In the latest EYBL session, he scored 32 points with 18 boards on 6-12 shooting from deep in 26 minutes over two games...  He also failed to reach double digits over ther other 11 games.

His overall averages over 13 games:  13 min/g, 5.5ppg, 3.7rpg, 32% 3FG

Scout 3 Star

Fantastic recent interview here.  Not sure if you can see it w/o Rivals subscription.  Has family member on GW staff.  Interest from VTech, Miami, UVA.

I had a couple of errors in the stats, but you get the point.  Correct numbers here.

At least Anthony Swann already has interest from high-majors, so its not a case where he's giving a verbal because GW is the highest profile school that is showing interest like that other guy who went to Riverdale Baptist!! LOL

 I heard that Kansas St. is now looking at him.  

 According to the video below, he has a family member on the GW staff. Maybe Hajj Turner (also from Va), although I think Sutton is also a Va guy.

Link

 Great point Thomas, that certainly signals genuine interest rather than best option at the time.

this is a different episcopal than where kethan went correct?

 Very well spoken kid. Plus I like when they asked him what he's doing when not playing basketball and he answered homework.

 Sorry. Apparently you need a rivals subscription

 Kethan's Episcopal is in Alexandria.  The question I have is can a Junior sign a Letter of Commitment now, or does he have to wiat for the early signing period of his senior class?

 Has to wait until the Fall of 2013 signing period

ESPN rates him 75:

Hatchet post

Wow. I miss Elizabeth Traynor already.  Hatchet article on off-season recruiting does not mention the addition of Nick Griffen and questions whether Swan will get one of the available scholarships in 2014.  What?

 I would assume that Swan is going to get a scholarship, as he is a pretty legit prospect.  

 Like this pickup a lot. 

 Of course he will... it's an awful article... White wont even see the floor next year

 Nick will do just fine as Hatchet sports editor even if he doesn't join Ms. Traynor in the Leslie Carlson ogle gallery. Article references "off-season" pickups so I'd suggest that Griffin wasn't included since he was an early signing period addition. Student coverage of sports in newspaper and on radio and on RaiseHigh TV has been pretty good the last several years. Will be nice if Post coverage increases and some sponsors come forward for TV games. Would be nice to see some commercials that bring in rather than spend money from athletic department coffers.

VirginiaPreps eval:

Anthony Swan, VES, 6-foot-6 Small Forward (Class of 2014)

What We Like: As his minutes increased as the weekend went on, so too did Swan's shooting percentage. He got off to a slow start in the EYBL's second leg by going just 1-of-6 from three-point land, but turned it around by hitting on 6-of-12 3's over the final three games. Swan has a gorgeous stroke from deep and makes a number of smart, winning plays that don't always show up in the stat sheet. Besides the smooth J, he does a solid job of providing help defense and brings length to the rebound adequately at the '3' position.

Question Marks: Like a lot of players, Swan has to find ways to impact the game when his shot is not falling for him. Since he does provide good help on defense, when he occasionally leaves his guy open it sometimes bites him. He'll have to do a better job closing out on open shooters so it doesn't get him in too much trouble.

"Since he does provide good help on defense, when he occasionally leaves his guy open it sometimes bites him."

Welcome to GW Anthony. 

 V.E.S. guard Anthony Swan announced Thursday he's committed to George Washington University in the nation's capital.  Swan, who has a cousin who's the head associate coach at G.W., said it was a difficult decision.  He had narrowed his final three to G.W., Miami and Cincinnati.  But the Colonials win out.

 Not that I put any stock in it, but relative or not let's hear from the folks who track who GW recruits against. We will never know, but was Nigel's commitment to K State a factor?  

Presser

 So, he had firm offers from Miami, Cinci, VCU?  Earlier posts seem to indicate there was some interest from these schools.  I didn't realize he was holding offers from all of them and chose GW. If so, it would be ML's biggest recruiting win since Larsen.

I'm having a hard time finding stuff on him from other school's boards/forums. Any help?

And if he held recruits from schools like VCU, Miami (FL) and Cincy then he must be a promising player. 

So, Anthony Swan is Hajj Turner's cousin!! I guess that would make this verbal even stronger since there is a family connection. As long as H.Turner is at GW, I'd expect A.Swan will be at GW for the 2014-2015 season. This may be like Eric Copes situation in which the recruit will go wherever his family member is coaching. I've found a link that lists him as a 3-star recruit and showed his 'schools of interest' being Cincinnati, Holy Cross, Minnesota and William & Mary. It looks like A.Swan is going to be the highest rated recruit that Mike Lonergan has signed based on the level of schools who have shown interest/offered.

http://scouthoops.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=8&c=1&nid=6455204

Thomas, Kevin Larsen's list of schools was right up there as well.

 I smell another cornerstone class happening. I think that our staff went to plan "B" a while ago and they will play this class up. This is good stuff.  

 When's the deadline for spring commitments/signing period?

There is no signing period in the Spring of 2013 for 2014 Scholarships. You can't actually sign until the Fall signing period of your senior year. You can only verbal in the Spring of your junior year.

 Thanks thinker

I somehow thought (based on something someone said on this board) that there is a time limit for high schoolers who want to commit in this time period 

There are two signing periods - hereare the one for the next year:

11/13/13 through 11/20/13 (early signing period)

And 4/16/14 through 5/21/14 (regular signing period)

These are the only times you can sign.

 One thing I love about early signings like this is that we can glow the kid his while senior year and get a feel for his game.  Here's to hoping for BM's prophesy of the kid blowing up this year. 

FQ,

Even though the various reports show Swan as having "signed," I don't think he can actually formally sign until this November.