St. Pius X-St. Matthias' Douglas Langford is headed to Harvard for basketball.
There’s a new celebrity basketball player in the country of Belize. Douglas Langford Jr., a 6-foot-7 senior who came to the United States as a 14-year-old and enrolled at St. Pius X-St. Matthias in Downey, announced earlier this week he had completed the admission process for attending Harvard next year. Suddenly, media across Belize reported the news and asked for interviews. As one person wrote in a Facebook post, “Langford Jr.
Langford stayed with a host family for three years in Southern California until moving in with an aunt for his senior year. He visited Harvard with his parents and fell in love. “I went to Boston and didn’t want to leave,” he said. “It felt like home. It was truly amazing.” He averaged 15.1 points and 11.5 rebounds last season for a team that made the Open Division playoffs. He also gets all A’s on his report card. He played last summer for the Belize U18 national team.
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