T all from the outset, 2022 Senior Sportsman of the Year Hunter Adam has always set himself high aspirations. A pivotal member of College’s 2022 national champion Senior A basketball team and the tournament MVP at the New Zealand Secondary Schools National AA Championships, Hunter was also a member of the national title-winning Canterbury U19 team, the New Zealand
a professional basketball career. At Davidson College in North Carolina, Hunter is studying Mathematics and Physics, along with a range of other subjects. He is also expected to play plenty of basketball while gaining his bachelor’s degree. He hopes that the full scholarship will help launch his career as a professional player. “That is the dream. Right now, I’m looking forward to stepping out of College life, heading to a new country, and chasing some dreams,” he says in an interview prior to his departure. “As well as being really excited, I’m nervous as well.” However, he concedes that parting from his Christ’s College basketball teammates, many of whom have been together for the past three years, is difficult. “Leaving these friendships is hard. These are the people who have had the same drive and desire and it has been huge to be part of something like that. And we’ve been very fortunate to have a
coach like Ben Sheat. He’s been the enabler – always in my corner and giving good advice. He has been terrifically helpful.” As well as mastering the physical demands of his chosen sport, Hunter has found the constant scrutiny of his form and the need to manage others’ expectations among his biggest personal growth areas. “Just coping with that scrutiny has been quite hard at times,” he says. Educated at Dunsandel School, Hunter came to Christ’s College from St Thomas of Canterbury College in Year 11 on a basketball scholarship. In Year 12, he won prizes for History and Physical Education, but switched to the Sciences, Physics, and Calculus in Year 13, which he handled equally well. Hunter has never regretted his move to a new school. “College offers an environment where everyone is trying to do their best, and so that makes you want to do your best, too, in every respect.”
Junior Tall Blacks, and a Canterbury Rams NBL squad member. He has also taken part in two NBA Global Academy events in Canberra and the United States. It is hardly surprising then that Hunter
has followed in the footsteps of his predecessor,
College 2021 Senior Sportsman of Year Josh Book, and has headed to the United States on a four-year scholarship, intent on
“College offers an environment where everyone is trying to do their best, and so that makes you want to do your best, too, in every respect.”
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