{"id":271865,"date":"2025-02-27T21:01:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T21:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/no-4-ranked-nate-ament-shares-feelings-on-how-things-changed-in-the-past-high-school-year\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:09:14","slug":"no-4-ranked-nate-ament-shares-feelings-on-how-things-changed-in-the-past-high-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/no-4-ranked-nate-ament-shares-feelings-on-how-things-changed-in-the-past-high-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 4-ranked Nate Ament shares feelings on how things changed in the past high school year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content\" data-postid=\"4798019\" data-slug-id=\"2393698\">\n<div class=\"vidazoo-player-container\">\n<span class=\"vidazoo-close-btn  hidden \"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/cmc-predictor\/v2\/cross-icon.png?w=40\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" alt=\"close\"\/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nate Ament, ESPN 100&#8217;s No. 4-ranked prospect, was featured in the most recent episode of the Youngins podcast, released on Tuesday. In the podcast, the five-star prospect discussed his NIL deal, recruitment process, and basketball journey, particularly in his last year of high school.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yt-wrapper\">                    <noscript><iframe title=\"Nate Ament announces game changing NIL DEAL with Fanstake &amp; his Top 5 Colleges\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IEbvGIdGWyE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript>                    <\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube\" data-embed=\"IEbvGIdGWyE\">\n<div class=\"play-button\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"370\" width=\"660\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/IEbvGIdGWyE\/sddefault.jpg\" src-low=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/IEbvGIdGWyE\/sddefault.jpg\" class=\"lazy-img\" alt=\"youtube-cover\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><template id=\"also-read-articles-template\"><\/p>\n<p><\/template><\/p>\n<p>When asked how things have changed in the past year of high school basketball, Ament made it clear that he&#8217;s not moved by outside noise and stays grounded in the present rather than worrying about the future:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A lot has changed &#8230; obviously with some of the deals I&#8217;ve done and some of the basketball I&#8217;ve played, but &#8230; there&#8217;s just a level of peace to everything I do and how I&#8217;m acting because for me, I&#8217;m not focused on the future, what&#8217;s coming ahead \u2014 I try to focus on the present every day.&#8221; (15:33-15:53)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ament credited his inner circle for keeping him grounded and ensuring he stays focused on his work and faith. He said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have a great circle around me, of course Derek (Nate&#8217;s agent), my family, my trainers and coaches, so having them in my circle, keeping me grounded, making sure I&#8217;m doing my workouts every day.&#8221; (16:08-16:16)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It does get really tough because you get excited with a lot of things coming down the road, the possibilities that could come, but they always remind me that those things won&#8217;t come if I don&#8217;t just keep my head down, work hard and trust God.&#8221; (16:16-16:25)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>Uncommitted <\/strong>five-star prospect Nate Ament names top five schools ahead of college decision<\/h2>\n<p>In the same podcast, Nate Ament, currently the highest-rated uncommitted recruit, outlined his top five schools: Arkansas, Duke, Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisville:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I got a group of schools that I really want to focus in on and &#8230; put my attention towards for the remaining of this recruiting season before I choose my college, those schools being Arkansas, Duke, Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisville.&#8221; (21:32-21:58)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;These are just the schools that I felt I could see myself playing at and want to give all my attention towards.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A.J. 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