A player spotlight serves to highlight a student-athlete who has performed at the highest level. It puts the spotlight on that individual, to recognize the extraordinary effort, passion, and skill that they add to their respective sport.
This player spotlight goes to Everett Winchester of the men’s basketball team. Everett, a Baltimore, Maryland native, is a sophomore in school, but a redshirt freshman in basketball.When asked what made him choose Wright State, Everett attested to the environment and the way he interacted with the coaching staff. On the educational side, he said how he “loved the environment of the school I was in.” On the basketball side, he said how he “was recruited by the old coaching staff, but when Coach Nagy and the new staff came in they showed me love from the beginning.”The men’s program has started off the season going 4 and 4 after I rocky 0-3 start. Everett agrees that the team struggled early in the season, but he feels good about how the team looks now.
“We got off to a rough start, but we are starting to come together and play how we need to play," he said.Everett filled up the stat sheets in his high school years. Junior year, he averaged eleven points, seven rebounds and five assists. During his senior year, Everett averaged 22.5 points, seven rebounds and five assists.
Through the first eight games at Wright State, Everett is averaging 26.5 minutes a game. During his time on the court Everett is producing as well -- averaging 9.8 points, 4.1 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game.
This year, he is shooting 48 percent from the field and 65 percent from the free throw line.Due to his play, Everett has been named the Horizon League Freshman of the Week this season. The league highlighted Winchester during the 4 game win streak where he averaged 9.5 points and 4.5 rebounds.
He also shot 53 percent from the field and 75 percent from the line with 18 point and seven rebound game against Tiffin. "I don’t really worry too much about the freshman of the week awards. As long as I’m playing as hard as I can for my teammates and we are winning, that’s all that matters," Everett said.
