Basketball: Bendall going back to USU -- next year
Nate Bendall is going back to Utah State -- next year.
Bendall is the 6-foot-9 forward from Skyline High who played for the Aggies in 2005-06 before departing on an LDS Church service mission to Nauvoo, Ill.
Bendall returned in 2007, but the Aggies did not have a scholarship available at the time, and so Bendall enrolled at Salt Lake Community College.
He redshirted last season while the Bruins were making their run to the junior college national championship game, but practiced with the team and was evidently impressive enough in those workouts to earn the attention of Division I recruiters.
Bendall went through the recruiting process again, and last week he orally committed to Utah State for the second time. He said Monday that he will sign a national letter of intent with Utah State on Nov. 12.
Shortly after that, he will begin playing for SLCC, and will be considered a redshirt sophomore. So, when he joins the Aggies, he will have two years to play two seasons.
Bendall appeared in 15 games for USU in 2005-06, and averaged about five minutes per game.
He said Boise State and one of the Montana schools (he can't remember which) offered him scholarships, and that Colorado State and several West Coast Conference schools had expressed interest.
Bendall said he thought about waiting to sign until his season with SLCC was over, but he got the assurance from USU coach Stew Morrill that the Aggies would not recruit another junior college big man if he committed, so he did.
-- Jay Drew
Bendall is the 6-foot-9 forward from Skyline High who played for the Aggies in 2005-06 before departing on an LDS Church service mission to Nauvoo, Ill.
Bendall returned in 2007, but the Aggies did not have a scholarship available at the time, and so Bendall enrolled at Salt Lake Community College.
He redshirted last season while the Bruins were making their run to the junior college national championship game, but practiced with the team and was evidently impressive enough in those workouts to earn the attention of Division I recruiters.
Bendall went through the recruiting process again, and last week he orally committed to Utah State for the second time. He said Monday that he will sign a national letter of intent with Utah State on Nov. 12.
Shortly after that, he will begin playing for SLCC, and will be considered a redshirt sophomore. So, when he joins the Aggies, he will have two years to play two seasons.
Bendall appeared in 15 games for USU in 2005-06, and averaged about five minutes per game.
He said Boise State and one of the Montana schools (he can't remember which) offered him scholarships, and that Colorado State and several West Coast Conference schools had expressed interest.
Bendall said he thought about waiting to sign until his season with SLCC was over, but he got the assurance from USU coach Stew Morrill that the Aggies would not recruit another junior college big man if he committed, so he did.
-- Jay Drew
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