Kelly Orchard: Ready For The Tryouts

Kelly Orchard, a 6-10, 220-pound power forward/center from Bountiful High School in Utah, is looking forward to the tryouts for the USA junior team, according to his family.

Kelly's family has been kind enough to keep us informed on where his recruiting process stands. Orchard has added Utah State, Oregon State, Iowa, and Wisconsin to his list of schools. Orchard has taken unoffical visits to Kansas, Boise State, BYU, and is going to visit California in June, according to his dad, Terry.

Mr. Orchard also told us that Kelly is rounding out his game. "He is working on his inside game plus spending a lot of time in the weight room where he hopes will improve his game this summer," Terry said. "He is excited to have been invited to the top invitation only camps and to play with the Oakland Slam n Jam who are one of the top travel teams this year in the country."

Kelly is also an excellent student. He has a 3.5 GPA and already has a qualifying ACT score. He is also interested in according to Mr. Orchard: "He is being recruited hard from many of the schools in the Pac 10, Big 12, WAC and the Mountain West.

It was previously told to us his early favorites are "West to East, Stanford, Cal, Boise State, BYU, and Kansas."

Again, Orchard has added some more schools. And he is also thinking about becoming the first 6-10 tight end in Utah state history.