Haverford School Star Hoopster Looks Toward The Future
Tao Xu is ready to take the next step in his development.
It’s been an interesting year for nearly 7-foot Chinese exchange student Tao Xu.The starting The Haverford School center went from parachuting into a new country, hardly knowing the English language, to becoming very welcomed and quite immersed in what has been a very gratifying experience not only for him, but those around him. Now the next step. The 6-foot-11 Xu has achieved senior status and took the SAT for the first time Saturday, March 10. He’s received considerable interest from Drexel, Penn, Niagara and Princeton. Xu may need to take an extra year at a junior college, if he does not reach the SAT qualifying score, but it appears Xu is headed in a good direction. “It’s been fun to watch Tao develop,” Fords’ basketball coach Henry …
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