Boys Basketball: Broad Run Star Nigel Johnson a Likely Transfer to Riverdale Baptist

(Aug. 3, 2012) - Broad Run High School star Nigel Johnson has likely transferred for his senior season to private basketball powerhouse Riverdale Baptist in Maryland according to reports by DMV Elite and the Gazette newspapers. Johnson averaged nearly 30 points a game last season for the Spartans as a junior including a Loudoun record 55 points against Osbourn.

While Broad Run coach John Costello said this week he had heard the rumors of Johnson's transfer but had yet to receive official notification of the move.

Johnson already holds scholarship offers from George Washington, American, Bucknell, Cornell, Holy Cross, Northeastern, William and Mary and UNC-Greensboro.


Johnson told DMV Elite in an interview: “They started trying to recruit me around when we had our first practice [with D.C. Assault]. Coach Lou [Wilson] was there, and I guess he either saw us playing pick-up or I was shooting around or something, and ever since then, we’ve been talking to him. I think we made our final decision to come, like, a couple of weeks ago.”