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Friday, 01 June 2012 11:42

Stefan Moody lays in a shot against Oak Ridge in the regional championship game.

Stefan Moody is named one of nation’s top 40 players

By Rick Pedone
Sports Editor
Poinciana High graduate Stefan Moody was selected to the 2012 Parade magazine All-America high school basketball team, placing him among the top 40 players in the nation.
Moody, who averaged 27.9 points and five rebounds for the Eagles last season, also was a first-team Class 7A Florida all-state selection.

The 5-10 guard, who has phenomenal leaping ability paired with an accurate outside shot, will enroll in three weeks at Florida Atlantic University, where he received a scholarship last fall.
Moody, who graduated from PHS last week, said he didn’t know that he would be on the prestigious Parade magazine roster until recently.
“One of my assistant coaches called me and told me about it,” he said. “Then I saw it on my Facebook page.”
Moody caught the attention of college scouts last summer when he dominated at a series of elite-level prep basketball camps.
He continued his high level of play during the high school season when he carried a Poinciana team depleted by graduation to the district championship and then to the regional championship round, where eventual state finalist Oak Ridge finally stopped the Eagles.
“He’s the best player in the state, hands-down,” Moody’s high school coach, Oliver Simmons, said after the season. “Nobody in the state faces the pressure he does, game in and game out. On a team where he wasn’t double-teamed every time he had the ball, he’d score 50 points a game. You can’t stop him one-on-one.”
Moody isn’t sure whether he would score at such a pace, but he is confident that he deserves to be mentioned among the nation’s premier players.
“I don’t know who’s on the (Parade) team. I haven’t seen the list,” he said. “But, I know I can play with them.”
Oviedo High Coach Ed Kershner, who coached All-Americans Frank Ford and Jimmy McCrimon at Osceola High in the 1980s, said Moody is one of the most talented players he has seen. Moody averaged 34.6 points in three Great Florida Shootout games last year.
“The only way you can stop him is to keep him out of the gym,” Kershner said.
Both McCrimon and Ford were Parade All-Americans in 1983, and Ford also was selected to the McDonald’s All-America team.
Moody will play for Coach Mike Jarvis at FAU.
“I’m not playing at all right now. I’m just working out and getting ready to go down there and start college,” he said.
Deandre Burnett, a 6-1 guard, from Miami Gardens Carol City, is Florida’s other representative on the boys roster. Burnett will play at Miami.
Edgewater High’s Alexis Prince is a member of the Parade girls team. The 6-2 forward will play for Baylor.
Bre Crum, a 5-8 guard from Tampa Sickles, is another Floridian on the girls roster. She will play at North Florida.