Cannon driving Terriers toward NEC title
Senior Forward Peaking as SFC Pursues Elusive NEC Crown
They came, they saw, and most of them didn’t even think enough of what they witnessed to make the young man an offer.
When Jalen Cannon was being scouted out of his native William Allen High School in Allentown, Pa., he wasn’t exactly burning up the national recruiting circuit despite being named Lehigh Valley Co-Player of the Year and leading his Canaries to the District II Class 4A Championship.
“Coaches would come to see me play, and they’d come back a couple of times,” Cannon recalled. “But St. Francis was the only one that offered [a scholarship]. They made me feel like they really wanted me.”