by James Quinn MDVarsity.com Magazine Staff Mike Glick's first season as the head coach at Gwynn Park High School was made a lot easier by the presence, talent and leadership of 6-2.5 junior point guard Sean Thomas. The Yellow Jackets were looking at a serious rebuilding job in 2006-2007 after veteran Coach Steve Mathews left in the spring of 2006. Gwynn Park lost 11 of 14 players from their 2005-2006 squad and the three returning players had limited experience. (Prior to Mathews, legendary D.C. basketball figure George Leftwich had success at Gwynn Park). But Gwynn Park has a long, distinguished history as a public school hoops power in Prince George's County and Mike Glick, who had previously built Catholic School powers at Pallotti High School and Archbishop Spalding, quickly built a competitive team from the young talent at his disposal at Gwynn Park. The Yellow Jackets were a very respectable 13-10 this year even though they had a very young team with little proven size. One of the key reasons for Gwynn Park's success this year was Sean Thomas. "Sean had a terrific year for us," Coach Glick told MdVarsity.com. "He was our leading scorer at 13.7 points a game. He led us with 3.5 assists per game and his assist-to-turnover rate was 2.5 to 1, which is really good. Sean is a point guard for us, but I think he'll 'combo' in college. He is strong and skilled enough to play either guard position. He is already about 185 pounds and he is still just 16 years old. Sean isn't a great long range shooter, he only attempted 2 three pointers this season, but he is a good mid-range shooter and he can really get to the rim. Sean can really create off the dribble and is strong enough to take the bump. He is a tough kid, he led us in free throw attempts this year. Even though he is not a great shooter, he did hit 48 pct. of his field goal attempts as a junior." Coach Glick pointed out that Thomas, "… played better as the year went along. We won our last five games and Sean had a lot to do with that. His scoring went down a little at the end of the year, but he was running the team and doing a lot of things to lead the team, make us better and win some games. He had a really good year for us." Coach Glick said that Thomas is already getting recruiting interest "…from about 10 Division One colleges. Holy Cross, Navy, George Mason, Akron, Loyola…we have a few colleges coming in to look at him in 'open gyms' this week. Sean is a great kid, a real good teammate, a kid who can be a real leader. He is a good student, he has a 3.3 GPA and a good, qualifying SAT score already. Even though Sean has a good SAT score already, he is going to take it again so that he can keep some of these real 'high end' academic colleges on him. I really like Sean, I think he is a heckuva player. We could be pretty darn good next year and he'll be a big key for us." Thomas will be playing AAU ball with the Triple Threat Blue 17 & Under AAU squad this off-season.