Rundles still open to his future
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Ryan James
GopherIllustrated.com
DeLaSalle point guard Cameron Rundles has a number of good mid major options right now. Schools looking at him the most include Illinois State, Creighton, Dayton and Central Florida. After a shortened junior basketball season, Rundles shined this summer taking part in the Mid America camp and playing with the Howard Pulley Panthers.
Rundles will play football for DeLaSalle this year
Rundles, 6-foot-2 180 pounds, went to Atchison, Kansas for Tom Tietze's Mid-America Basketball Academy and had a good experience. "I went down there with a couple of guys," said Rundles. "Myself, PJ Hill, Chop Tang, Romain Martin, Noah Dahlman, we all went down there. The camp was good, we all had a nice time and we all played very well. But it wasn't one of those top camps, the top three I mean (Nike All-American, ABCD or the Adidas Superstar). The competition wasn't like I faced last year when I went to the ABCD camp. But overall, it was all right and it helped my game out a lot because I was playing people that I'm familiar with. Last year at the ABCD, I was playing with kids I didn't know so it was kind of like a scramble. So it was cool to go down with people I knew."
After playing in only half of the games this past high school season (Cam helped lead DeLaSalle to the state tournament when he came back from his shoulder injury) Rundles looked forward to his summer playing with Howard Pulley and he had a number of bright moments. "Even though our team didn't do that well, I had so much fun," he said. "It was my first year playing with Pulley and I really liked it. The year kind of made me regret not playing with them before, but overall it was just fun." Rundles had played with Team Minnesota and the Eastsidaz in years past.
Cameron is widely known in Minnesota for his fire on the court, his competitive demeanor and his defense. "The kid is just a warrior you know," said Rene Pulley. "He'll fight until that last buzzer because he's such a competitor. The kid doesn't like to lose at anything and he works his tail off on the floor." Rundles is one of the better defenders in state but he can also fill up the stat sheet with his ability to penetrate and score at the basket along with his improving jumper. "Everybody on our Pulley team was the top players of Minnesota so, playing with them, they always helped raise my game," Cam said. "Playing against them in practice everyday, you have to play hard otherwise they are going to make you look bad on the court. I still have to improve my ball handling and I want to get more explosive going to the rack." One of his summer highlights was nailing five three-pointers against the Illinois Warriors keeping his team in the championship game of the Sabes Invite before they eventually lost.
The college interest in Rundles is mostly mid-major at this point. He has offers from Creighton and Wyoming although Wyoming doesn't look to be in the picture anymore. "Illinois State, Dayton and Creighton, they are the top three that contact me the most and it may be down to those three," Rundles explained. "I was really thinking about making the decision before the season but now I don't think I will." Other schools still involved in his recruitment include Xavier, Central Florida and Santa Clara. Rundles has a good interest in Illinois State as does Pulley backcourt mate Romain Martin. Not to long ago, Martin and Rundles were teammates at DeLaSalle and they know each other well. "Illinois State is recruiting Romain as well as myself, so he and I might take a visit there together on the same weekend," said Rundles. Cam has also expressed recent interest in visiting UCF and Xavier.
Not only is Rundles a star on the basketball court, but he has received division one interest on the football field. Last year he severely hurt his shoulder playing football and that can't stop him from getting on the gridiron again. "I'm definitely going to play football," Rundles stated. "I'm getting a lot of looks on the football field as well but I don't think I'm going to play it in college. But I love that game so much I just can't give it up my senior year." Minnesota high schools just started football practice this week.