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JuCo Standout Brit Kelly Transfers to Shaw University

 

(Raleigh, NC) –Brit Kelly, a two-time First Team All-Pacific Coast Conference selection, has committed to play basketball for Shaw University.  While at Imperial Valley (CA) College, the 6-4 180 lb. guard averaged 12 points and four assists per game and led his team to back-to-back conference championships.

Shaw University’s Men’s Basketball Coach Cleo Hill, Jr., says Kelly brings more to the team than simply basketball skills.  “Brit has a strong jump shot and an outstanding court sense.  But even more, he has a desire to win and knows the type of hard work it takes to build a winning program.”

Kelly says it was more than basketball that drew him to Shaw.  “I wanted to be part of an HBCU, and I grew up with the CIAA.  It’s important for me to be in that environment.  Shaw’s history and Baptist background drew me, too.  I wanted that atmosphere.”

After finishing a standout career at Alexandria, Virginia’s Hayfield Secondary School, Kelly headed to Imperial Valley, and a program that hadn’t won a championship since 1986.  Under Coach Tyson Aye, Kelly and his teammates won two championships, and he was selected to the First-Team All-Conference squad both years.

After verbally committing to Mississippi Valley State, Kelly took time off in order to play a bigger role in the birth of his daughter.  Kelly now intends to major in education, with a long-term goal of being a high school history teacher.

The Shaw University’s men’s basketball team finished the 2008-09 season 12-16 overall, 8-10 in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) in Hill’s first year as a head coach.  The Bears open the 2009-10 campaign hosting Virginia Union on November 16, 2009 at Shaw’s C.C. Spaulding Gymnasium.