For a while, Cape Elizabeth senior center Joe Geoghegan didn’t know if he wanted to continue playing basketball in college.
When the 2005-06 season ended, the decision became a lot easier. Last week, Geoghegan committed to play for Division 3 Williams College.
“It was just the fact that I was done playing basketball and I had been (playing) for six months straight every year,” said Geoghegan. “So, I just realized that I needed it.”
Geoghegan began communicating with Williams coach Dave Paulsen last summer when he attended a prospect camp at the school.
“We’ve been in touch ever since, so it’s been nice,” said Geoghegan. “It’s a nice college town, nice college community. My sister goes there. She’ll be a senior when I’m a freshman, so there’s only a one-year overlap. But I’ve visited her and stayed over a few times, and all the guys on the team are nice and it seems like a friendly place.”
Geoghegan also applied to NYU, Harvard, Brown, Amherst, Bowdoin and Georgetown, although he said he now plans to withdraw his applications at those schools.
“I think anywhere I would’ve gone I would’ve at least played intramurals or on a club team, but I applied to schools like Georgetown, where I’m not going to be on the team,” he said. “But anywhere I went I would’ve at least played at some level.”
Geoghegan, a member of Cape’s state championship-winning golf team, also plans to play golf at Williams.
“They have the No. 1-ranked collegiate course in the nation, and I’ve talked to the golf coach as well down there and he said he thinks I’d be good enough to play,” he said. “So I’ll see what I can do.”
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