The Wyoming basketball team has identified one of its top targets for the 2015 recruiting season and the interest appears to be mutual.
The Cowboys have offered a scholarship to junior guard Austin Conway of Overland High School in Colorado and the two-sports star said he plans to check out Laramie this fall for himself. Perhaps more than once.
"I haven't taken any visits yet, Wyoming will be my first," Conway said of his September 28th visit date. "I'll be up there quite a bit this fall for football games and stuff. Not just once, but maybe two or three times."
Last season, Conway averaged 16 points, 4 assists and three steals per contest in route to being named All-Conference. It is a group of numbers that has netted him recruiting calls from Ohio State and Indiana, along with the Wyoming scholarship offer.
Conway was set to come to visit Laramie unofficially this summer until an infection kept him home. Now, he hopes to get a better look at the Wyoming campus and program when he visits Laramie in September.
In addition to making sure Wyoming would accept all of his college credits earned during high school at Overland Park, Conway said he is also get a sense for the methods of the Wyoming coaches and relationships they have with their players. Conway said his relationship with the Wyoming coaches is the strength of the Cowboys' recruiting pitch.
"I love the way the coaches at Wyoming are recruiting me," he said. "I feel like the level of appreciation is high. I feel like the coaches and I are getting along pretty well.
"On the visit, I want to see the coaches work with the team and how they interact with the players. I am the type of person who likes to be around other people and I want to see if the other players like being around the coaches," said Conway. "They don't have to necessarily be the type that are hangout buddies, but I want to see how they get along."
This summer Conway is playing for the Colorado Hawks and a traveling team for Adidas. He said he has seen his level of play pick up and with it, renewed interest from schools like Kansas, Stanford, Colorado, Princeton, Harvard and Penn.
"I feel great about my summer," Conway said. "As a team we completed a lot of adjustments before we came into the summer. We didn't win a championship, but we did get closer than we did last year and that says a lot about the way we played.
"I think I showed I can shoot the ball better than people give me credit for and i think I showed I could play defense better than people gave me credit for. I took everything they said about me last year and added more to my stock."
While he won't put his basketball recruitment completely on the back burner, Conway is already knee-deep in his high school football season. As a prep signalcaller last season, the son of former Seattle Seahawk and Denver Bronco, Earl Conway, accounted for 1,300 yards and seven touchdowns passing and another 1,200 rushing yards and 28 scores on the ground. The younger Conway said he holds scholarship offers to play football from Colorado State and Nebraska.
Conway said Overland High opens its football season with Arvada West next week in what should be a successful season.
"I think last year we got our feet wet. I think we are going to build on that. We had a final four season last year and I think we can work towards that again. Just based on what we have last," Conway added.
Austin Conway
The Cowboys have offered a scholarship to junior guard Austin Conway of Overland High School in Colorado and the two-sports star said he plans to check out Laramie this fall for himself. Perhaps more than once.
"I haven't taken any visits yet, Wyoming will be my first," Conway said of his September 28th visit date. "I'll be up there quite a bit this fall for football games and stuff. Not just once, but maybe two or three times."
Last season, Conway averaged 16 points, 4 assists and three steals per contest in route to being named All-Conference. It is a group of numbers that has netted him recruiting calls from Ohio State and Indiana, along with the Wyoming scholarship offer.
Conway was set to come to visit Laramie unofficially this summer until an infection kept him home. Now, he hopes to get a better look at the Wyoming campus and program when he visits Laramie in September.
In addition to making sure Wyoming would accept all of his college credits earned during high school at Overland Park, Conway said he is also get a sense for the methods of the Wyoming coaches and relationships they have with their players. Conway said his relationship with the Wyoming coaches is the strength of the Cowboys' recruiting pitch.
"I love the way the coaches at Wyoming are recruiting me," he said. "I feel like the level of appreciation is high. I feel like the coaches and I are getting along pretty well.
"On the visit, I want to see the coaches work with the team and how they interact with the players. I am the type of person who likes to be around other people and I want to see if the other players like being around the coaches," said Conway. "They don't have to necessarily be the type that are hangout buddies, but I want to see how they get along."
This summer Conway is playing for the Colorado Hawks and a traveling team for Adidas. He said he has seen his level of play pick up and with it, renewed interest from schools like Kansas, Stanford, Colorado, Princeton, Harvard and Penn.
"I feel great about my summer," Conway said. "As a team we completed a lot of adjustments before we came into the summer. We didn't win a championship, but we did get closer than we did last year and that says a lot about the way we played.
"I think I showed I can shoot the ball better than people give me credit for and i think I showed I could play defense better than people gave me credit for. I took everything they said about me last year and added more to my stock."
While he won't put his basketball recruitment completely on the back burner, Conway is already knee-deep in his high school football season. As a prep signalcaller last season, the son of former Seattle Seahawk and Denver Bronco, Earl Conway, accounted for 1,300 yards and seven touchdowns passing and another 1,200 rushing yards and 28 scores on the ground. The younger Conway said he holds scholarship offers to play football from Colorado State and Nebraska.
Conway said Overland High opens its football season with Arvada West next week in what should be a successful season.
"I think last year we got our feet wet. I think we are going to build on that. We had a final four season last year and I think we can work towards that again. Just based on what we have last," Conway added.
Austin Conway
