Why has AJ Mayo attended so many different high schools?

Answer 1

The first public mention of Mayo occurred in the Ashland, Kentucky Daily Independent newspaper in an article called 'Phenom' in the paper's January 21, 2001 edition, when Mayo was just a sixth grader. In that article he was listed as being a "6-foot-1½ point guard with size 14 shoe". The article also mentioned that he had repeated a grade and therefore was ineligible to play varsity high school basketball as of yet.

Mayo commuted from Huntington to Rose Hill Christian, a private school in Ashland, since student athletes can play high school varsity sports as seventh graders in Kentucky. In the seventh grade, he put up numbers that dwarfed the production of players five years his senior. In his first game for his varsity team he scored 27 points, had seven rebounds and three steals. He was a seventh grader playing against juniors and seniors in high school. As a 7th grader, he was, however, the same age (14) as most 9th graders.

During his seventh grade year in January of 2002, Mayo was mentioned in Sports Illustrated Magazine and on CBS Sportsline.com. There were also full articles in the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Huntington, West Virginia Herald-Dispatch and USA Today.

After the completion of the basketball season during his eighth grade year, he moved to Cincinnati with Dwaine Barnes, a longtime family friend whom Mayo has often called his grandfather, in order to attend North College Hill High School near Cincinnati

In 2006, the 6' 5" 205 lbs. 18-year old junior point guard was selected as Mr. Basketball of Ohio for the second consecutive season, in addition to being named Associated Press Division III Player of the Year for the second consecutive season. He averaged nearly 30 points, six rebounds, and seven assists per game. He also led his team to consecutive AP poll titles and garnered much attention from the media, appearing in the pages of Sports Illustrated among other publications. Much like another Ohio high school star, LeBron James, Mayo has drawn large enough crowds to force his team into seeking larger venues to support the growing crowds, and often attracts National Basketball Association stars such as James and Carmelo Anthony to watch his games playing for the D-1 Greyhounds.

When his team played a game in Huntington, 3,500 fans packed the Veterans Memorial Fieldhouse in order to watch him play. When his team played a game at Cerritos College, 6,500 fans filled a moderately sized arena to watch him play. On Martin Luther King Day in 2006, more than 10,000 fans came to Xavier University's Cintas Center to watch Mayo and North College Hill play Cincinnati Taft. In February, the largest crowd to ever see a high school game in Cincinnati, more than 16,000, watched North College Hill fall to the nation's number one rated team, Oak Hill Academy. Mayo had been considered a lock to make the leap straight from high school to the NBA, but the recent Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NBA and its players has instituted a rule that a player must be at least a year out of high school before he can enter the NBA, thus curtailing those plans. On July 5, 2006, it was reported by ESPN that OJ will attend the University of Southern California.[3] On July 8, however, WSAZ-TV reported that USC was one of only three that Mayo was considering: the other two were Kansas State University and the University of Florida.

On August 27, 2006, WSAZ-TV reported that Mayo will be enrolling at Huntington High School in Huntington, West Virginia for the 2006-07 school year.[4]

Answer 2

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Answer 3

He goes to those schools that are basketball factories.
I wonder if he is this player that was in USA Today a few years and that I was trying to find out about. Please let me know. What is his height?

When Oscar Robertson was in 8th grade, he was a "phenom",also.