Link Year Prep Creator Adam Donyes

Linking Players to the Valleys

(St. Louis, MO) – Link Year Prep creator Adam Donyes is linking players to the Valleys. The multi-faceted school in Branson, Missouri is sending waves of players to college basketball teams and several have landed at Missouri Valley and Ohio Valley Conference programs.

Link is a high school, a post-graduate school and so much more. Non-athlete and athlete alike students come from around the country and from other nations for both post-graduate and undergraduate programs and the basketball teams and players are turning heads.

Donyes began the educational portion of the Link Year school long before they added a basketball program.

Nationally ranked programs are signing link players with regularity. While Arkansas landed Jordan Walsh, Michigan signed Taris Reed. Omaha Biliew will toil at Iowa State and Julian Phillips at Tennessee. Ohio State picked up Felix Oxpara. Those players are all four and five star recruits and are expected to due damage for those ‘power conference’ teams.

Link played in the Geiko National championships and finished second. Donyes (pronounced Dohn-yea) says Walsh is a warrior and Reed will likely have an NBA career.

 

 

Linking Players to the Valleys

While players of national pedigree are signing around the country, Link Year is sending players to both the Missouri Valley and Ohio Valley Conference. Evansville and Missouri State will have Link Year players and at least eight will be toiling in the OVC.

Zaveion Okoh-Chism was signed by the new coaching staff at Evansville and Damien Mayo landed at Missouri State. Donyes believes both players can play significant roles in their MVC homes. Okoh-Chism is from Texas and Mayo transferred to Link from St. Louis’ legendary Chaminade College Prep. Chaminade is the home of NBA all-stars Jayson Tatum, Bradley Beal and David Lee.

Donyes loves to brag about his players.

 

 

Julian Norris  and Gavyn Elkamil are joining the OVC. Norris was a three-star recruit from Evansville’s Benjamin Bosse High School prior to playing for the Link Lions. Donyes says Norris  has a well-rounded game and can be an all-OVC player.

Elkamil was injured while attending Link. He played last season for Tulsa and will play at Southeast Missouri this year. Donyes says both players have great character and will be impact players in the OVC.

 

 

Linking to SIUE

Five former Link players will suit up for Southern Illinois Edwardsville. Brian Barone’s team was one of the first team’s to notice the Branson-based school. Lamar and Shamar Wright are beginning their fourth seasons at SIUE.

Barone says when coaches recruit players from Link they are recruiting both talent and culture. The SIUE head coach offers that Donyes’ players come ready to contribute and understand hard-work and teamwork.

Desmond Polk and DeeJuan Pruitt are both red-shirt sophomores. Pruitt was the Cougars’ top rebounder while he and Shamar Wright each averaged over ten-points per game. A late signee Braden Wood is a left-handed point guard.

Donyes thinks those five Link Year players and the existing roster will help SIUE to be a surprise team in this year’s OVC race.

 

 

Link Year sent 16 players to four-year schools and they expect to send 22 players to Division 1 schools this coming season. Donyes is building a program where players compete with and against the best players in the country, all while being trained in a similar fashion to what they will do in college.

Donyes’ passion is to help those players develop their games, but more importantly for them to be prepared for life and point them in a redemptive direction. Link is connected to Branson’s, Kamp Kanakuk, a Christian athletic camp. He neither hides nor forces his faith on his players.

Link will soon be adding a women’s basketball team and expand into other sports.

Listen to our entire interview at Valley Hoops Insider Podcasts and watch it on Youtube.

Donyes’ players are scattered throughout the college game, but he is definitely linking players to the Valleys.

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