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Stanford Basketball Player Profile: Rodney Herenton

Related Topics: Basketball, Chicago, Walk-on (sports)

Herenton is a 6-foot-1 guard from Chicago, Illinois. He joins the Stanford Cardinal basketball team as a walk-on. Herenton turned down a scholarship offer to play basketball at Dartmouth in favor of life in Palo Alto.

Herenton won the Chicago City Championship in 2013 and the 4A Illinois State Championship has a Junior at Whitney Young High School before playing at Stevenson as a Senior.

The high school hoops landscape in Chicago one of the best and most competitive in the country. Rodney was certainly an impact player. Scott Burgess, an expert recruiting analyst for PrepHoopsIllinois.