Girls basketball: McKee officially picks Kent State on National Signing Day

Sports High School Sports Top Stories Facebook X Pinterest WhatsApp OTTAWA – After signing to play basketball for Kent State on Wednesday, Ottawa-Glandorf’s Madison McKee said that event was even more exciting than the day she got the Golden Flashes’ offer. “Signing is more exciting just to know it’s actually real,” the 6-2 senior forward/center said. Kent State wasn’t the only Division I school to believe McKee’s game is real. She also had offers from Toledo, Ball State, Wright State, Youngstown State and others. Kent State made its offer when McKee was a sophomore. It first noticed her in an AAU tournament game. McKee, who averaged 11 points and 7 rebounds a game for O-G last season when she was first-team All-Western Buckeye League, said several things attracted her to Kent State. “Just the coaching staff and the overall environment and I want to study engineering and they have a good engineering program,” she said. Her interest in playing college basketball goes back to when she was in the fifth grade or sixth grade. She has been first-team All-WBL twice in volleyball but it couldn’t dislodge basketball as her favorite. “I’ve always played volleyball and basketball but I think basketball just kind of spoke to me more,” McKee said. Ottawa-Glandorf (23-3) will play Mentor Lake Catholic (23-4) at 6 p.m. Thursday in a Division IV state semifinal at Wright State University. The state championship game will be played at 4 p.m. Friday. McKee said she has worked on improving her perimeter game for her senior year of high school basketball. “Just expanding my game on the perimeter shooting-wise. When I was younger it was a lot of in the post stuff. But I’ve been working on growing it,” she said. “I just want to have a lot of fun with our (basketball) team, do our best and know we left it all out there at the end of the year.” Also at the O-G signing ceremony Liana Fortman signed with Ohio State rowing, Grace Kahle is headed for Grace College in volleyball and Gracie Lammers is headed for the University of Findlay in volleyball. Featured Local Savings