Guard Melo Trimble, a four-star recruit from Virginia committed to play for the Terrapins men’s basketball team next season, was named a McDonald’s All-American on Wednesday night.
Trimble will be one of 24 players to compete in the McDonald’s High School All-American Game on April 2 at the United Center in Chicago.
A 6-foot-2 point guard for Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, Va., Trimble is part of coach Mark Turgeon’s highly-touted four-player 2014 recruiting class. Yahoo! Sports ranks Trimble No. 36 in the country and 247Sports ranks Trimble No. 33.
Trimble is the first Terps commit to be named a McDonald’s All-American since guard Mike Jones earned the honor in 2003. The shifty guard plays basketball on the AAU circuit for D.C. Assault and was recruited to this university by Dalonte Hill, a former Terps assistant coach who resigned in November after his third DUI arrest in five years.
At Bishop O’Connell Trimble plays for Joe Wooten, whose father Morgan Wooten is the chair of the McDonalds’ All-American selection committee.
