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Monday, April 22, 2019
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Campbell signs with Monmouth The choice to go to Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois may be too far by the grandparents' flavor, but the opportunity to play college basketball is one that Elijah Campbell has been thinking about since playing school ball at Howe starting in the seventh grade. Thanks to a great academic high school career, his grades and test scores allowed him to pursue his extracurricular dreams where he received a hefty Presidential Academic Scholarship.
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Campbell, at the beginning of his junior year, started working on a recruiting app which could showcase his highlights through videos. But at the end of his senior year, he was thinking he would have to walk-on somewhere to have a Elijah Campbell chance to keep playing. But before the final game this season, a Monmouth College basketball coach Campbell gave advice to younger student-athletes to never give up. contacted him about his possible interest in playing many miles from "Obviously, you have to work home. hard, and it sounds kind of cliche Campbell was talking with one other to say 'never give up', but it was the last moment before I started school before making his decision. talking to Monmouth. It's never Upon visiting Monmouth College, too late and schools are always he found that he really liked the looking. If you really want to do head coach and assistant coach and he felt they could groom him to one it, there's a place for everyone." day be a coach. That place for Elijah Campbell is "They can get me set up and get me in Illinois, and the grandparents will be familiar with Skype very started in that career," said soon. Campbell.
