Weber High boys basketball guard Hunter Schenck signs with Utah Tech
BRIAN WOLFER, Special to the Standard-Examiner
Weber's Hunter Schenck (3) drives against Fremont's Easton Duft on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Pleasant View.Utah Tech University was the first Division-I school to offer a scholarship to Weber High boys basketball senior Hunter Schenck. Signs pointed to more D-I offers down the road for Schenck, an explosive, playmaking guard.
But no one else wanted to pull the trigger on an offer until after his senior season. Schenck verbally committed to UTU, formerly known as Dixie State, back in May.
Signing the official letter, as Schenck did on Nov. 10 at Weber High School, and verbally committing bring two similar, yet different, feelings.
“It was awesome. Obviously, it was a feeling I haven’t felt yet. It felt better than just committing because now I know that’s my home for sure, and I’ve got a place to go,” Schenck said.
Schenck, a professed “warm weather guy,” will head to sunny St. George to join the Trailblazers in the newly shaken up Western Athletic Conference, which includes Utah Tech, Southern Utah, Utah Valley and more schools spread throughout the American southwest.
“I love the way they ran things, the way they did things and then their facilities, their training stuff,” Schenck said. “It was just stuff for pro athletes, you know, they have the stuff to make it so you can make it to the next level. They provide everything, it’s just on you to keep working and get better.”
Another reason Schenck said he chose UTU is because of a deep connection with assistant coach Gibson Johnson.
Johnson is a Viewmont High alumnus who played on Salt Lake Community College’s 2016 national championship team before playing at Hawai’i for two seasons and spending two more seasons at Hawai’i as the men’s basketball graduate team manager.
Schenck averaged 22.5 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game as a junior guard last year for a Weber team that went 6-16. He shot 44% from the field, 76% at the foul line and 34% on 3-pointers.
Weber opens the season next Tuesday, Nov. 21, against Box Elder. Hunter Schenck is also the latest D-I athlete in the Schenck household, following Hudson Schenck (Weber State football) and Hayden Schenck (UVU basketball).