The good folks of South Bend, Indiana are about to find out that while is last name may be cool, his shooting on a basketball court is anything but.
Ryder Frost of Beverly, a Top 100 recruit nationally from the Class of 2025, officially announced he’ll be taking his talents to the University of Notre Dame beginning next fall.
A senior at Phillips Exeter in New Hampshire who is regarded as one of the country’s best long range shooters, the 6-foot-6, 205-pound Frost picked the Irish over six schools he had narrowed his choices down to: Michigan, Iowa, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, and Wisconsin.
Primarily playing on the wing and owner of a 45 percent success rate from 3-point range, Frost made his decision Friday afternoon alongside his family: dad Brady, mom Kelly Brennan, and his older brother Brennan. He had visited the school on an official visit earlier this month.
When he announced he was going to Notre Dame, Frost, his father and brother all unzipped the sweatshirts they were wearing to display Fighting Irish basketball T-shirts underneath.
A former Northeastern Conference and Salem News Player of the Year, Frost thanked his Beverly High coaches, Matt Karakoudas and assistants Jeff Downey and Adam Russo, as well as his former Panther teammates, for helping him reach these heights.
“To play for my hometown team is something I took a lot of pride in,” Frost, who helped the Panthers win a pair of Northeastern Conference titles.
Frost will head off to Notre Dame to play for head coach Micah Shrewsberry. A former assistant with the Boston Celtics, he’ll enter his second year with the Fighting Irish this winter after going 13-20 a year ago.
It’s been an excellent week of recruiting for Shrewsberry and his program, not only landing Frost but two other Top 100 recruits in Jalen Haralson, the top rated player in Indiana and a consensus 5-star recruit, as well as 4-star Brady Koehler, who also hails from Indiana.
Frost is the second big-time boys basketball player from the North Shore to matriculate to Notre Dame in the last decade-plus. Pat Connaughton, currently playing for the Milwaukee Bucks, came out of St. John’s Prep in 2011 as the school’s all-time leading scorer and went on to serve as a two-time captain for the Fighting Irish, leading them to the NCAA Elite Eight as a senior.