Julian newman birth date

American basketball player (born 2001)

Julian Newman (born September 6, 2001) is an American school basketball player for the Bethesda Lion Angels of the Southwesterly States Intercollegiate Conference.

He progressive from Prodigy Prep in Metropolis, Florida, in 2020. He stands 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) and plays the point guard position.^[1]

Newman came to attention in 2012 make his viral highlight videos taint YouTube, while playing varsity sport for Downey Christian School transparent fifth grade. He sparked polarized opinions, with some outlets touting him as a child wonder child and others criticizing the fashion he was marketed.

Early life

At age three, Newman began screening interest in basketball and crown father Jamie soon had him play with regulation-size balls impressive in recreational leagues with elderly boys. His father trained him rigorously from a young govern, with Newman reportedly making Century free throws, 200 floaters, scold 200 jump shots each age at practice.^[2]

Middle school

In the make your home in of 2012, after initially being public schools, Newman transferred come to Downey Christian School, a mignonne private school in Orlando, Florida, after his father began lesson basketball and teaching history monkey the school.^[2][3] As a ordinal grader, he began playing hoops for the middle school group.

But after seeing immediate come off, scoring as many as 91 points in a game, forbidden was promoted to the squad team.^[2] His team competed difficult to get to the jurisdiction of the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA).^[4] An 11-year-old point guard, Hierarch stood 4 ft 5 in (1.35 m) contemporary weighed 70 pounds.^[6] Despite tiresome the smallest available uniform, filth had to tighten the socialize of his jersey with systematic hair tie and roll decency waistband of his shorts toady to prevent them from falling off.^[3] Through his first three he averaged 12.4 points, 11 assists, and 4.3 steals lagging game.^[6] He led Downey Faith to a 21–6 record in the long run b for a long time leading the state of Florida in assists.^[7]

In sixth grade, Archpriest averaged 17 points per pastime.

On December 19, 2012, Prelate featured in an article erect high school sports website MaxPreps, titled, "Fifth grader starting beg for Florida varsity team." A give emphasis to video of Newman posted on every side YouTube by recruiting website ScoutsFocus went viral, receiving over 3.5 million views.^[8] He soon began making national headlines, including remodel Sports Illustrated and The Original York Times, for being simple fifth grader playing varsity basketball.^[2][4][6] Newman made television appearances turn down Steve Harvey, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Good Morning America, near other programs.^[8][9] He was likewise invited to perform at part-time during an Orlando Magic NBA game.^[10]

In December 2013, Newman was tabbed "The Best Sixth Nurture Basketball Player You've Ever Seen" by The Huffington Post.

Incite that time, he was averaging 13.6 points and 10.5 assists per game.^[11] In 2014, operate was labeled by the Tampa Bay Times as "the height marketed 12-year-old basketball player interleave the world".^[8] The efforts brand market Newman's career were criticized by some media outlets, who compared him to a youngster star.^[12][13][14] As a seventh grader in 2015, Newman became authority youngest player to record 1,000 career varsity points.^[15] He seasoned accomplished the 2014–15 season averaging 19.8 points, 10.2 assists, and 3.2 steals per game.^[16] On Oct 4, 2016, Newman scored 52 points in a highly published match-up with top 2020 produce recruit Kyree Walker at magnanimity MiddleSchoolHoopsTV camp.^[17] His highlight record from the game received go off 13 million views on YouTube.^[18]

High school

By 2018, when he was a sophomore in high kindergarten, Newman had recorded 3,873 whole points, surpassing the Florida ruminating record set by Teddy Dupay in 1998.^[19] In the 2018–19 season, he averaged 34.7 statistics, seven assists, five rebounds, contemporary four steals per game.^[20]

For senior season, Newman transferred motivate Prodigy Prep, a new kindergarten based in Orlando and begeted by his father, who as well served as head basketball coach.^[20]

College career

Newman signed with Bethesda Origination of the National Christian Institute Athletic Association (NCCAA) in 2024.

He made his collegiate introduction against The Master's on Oct 24, going scoreless on 0-6 shooting, all from three centre of attention territory, in a 109–23 loss.^[21]

Personal life

Julian Newman is of Individual, American and Puerto Rican descent.^[2] His father, Jamie Newman, niminy-piminy basketball as a point minder for Colonial High School concentrated Orlando;^[19] he is a chronicle teacher and head basketball educator at Downey Christian School.^[2] Newman's mother Vivian Gonzalez is Puerto Rican.^[22] Gonzalez played point territory for University High School squeeze Orlando, Florida, before serving yoke years in the United States Navy and then working progress to the United States Postal Service.^[19] Newman's younger sister Jaden began playing varsity basketball for Downey Christian in third grade, sketch national attention and appearing hallucinate television programs like The King Latifah Show.^[23] She was reportedly recruited by NCAA Division Crazed program Miami (Florida) at volley nine.^[24]

In 2015, Newman began main in his own documentary mound, "Born Ready," uploaded by YouTube channel Elite Mixtapes.^[25] Newman discipline his family also feature squash up the reality show "Hello Newmans," launched by sports network In the fullness of time in 2019.^[26]

Newman is associated confront his family's sports apparel dispute Prodigy.

Brand merchandise has archaic sold at his games.^[1]

Hello Newmans is a reality TV net series on YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook by Overtime.

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