Career Honors
*2023-24: First-team All-Philadelphia Big 5
*2023-24: Second-team All-Ivy
*2023-24: Palumbo Award (Philadelphia Big 5's leading scorer)
*2023-24: All-Tournament, Cathedral of College Basketball Classic
*2023-24: Academic All-Ivy
*2022-23: All-Tournament, Cathedral Classic
*Two-time Ivy League Player of the Week (1/2/23; 12/4/23)
*Three-time Philadelphia Big 5 Player of the Week (2/19/24; 3/4/24; 3/11/24)
*Three-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week (2/21/22; 1/24/22; 1/10/22)
2023-24: (
Game-by-Game in PDF) Started and played in 22 games, missing seven (six in Ivy play) due to injury … First-team All-Big 5 and Palumbo Award recipient as the Big 5's leading scorer ... Second-team All-Ivy selection ... Three-time Philadelphia Big 5 Player of the Week (2/19, 3/4, 3/11) ... Penn’s leading scorer with 18.0 points per game … Also second on the team in assists (63) and 3FG made (57) and tied for second in steals (26) … AMONG IVY LEAGUE PLAYERS (all): Second in 3FG per game (2.6), third in points per game (18.0), sixth in 3FG percentage (.422), 11th in assists per game (2.9), 12th in steals per game (1.2), 13th in FG percentage (.487) … Led Penn with ten 20-point games and three 30-point games and had 20 double-figure scoring games overall … Led Penn in scoring in 13 games … Led all scorers with 33 points in Big 5 Classic overtime loss to La Salle at Wells Fargo Center (12/2) … In his third game back from injury, dropped 32 points—half of Penn’s 64 in the game—against Brown at The Palestra (2/17) … His other 30-point game came at UMES (11/18), when he scored 31 to go with three rebounds, two assists and two steals … Scored 27 points in a Big 5 loss at Saint Joseph’s (11/10) … Earned all-tournament at the Cathedral of College Basketball Classic when he scored 18 points against Lafayette (11/24) and followed it up with 21 points, seven assists and four rebounds against Belmont (11/25) … Finished with 20 points (6-9 on 3FG), four rebounds, three assists and two steals in a win over Howard (12/11) … Recorded 17 points and dished out four assists against Kentucky at WFC (12/9) … Finished the season with four straight 20-point games: 21 at Harvard (2/24), 22 vs. Cornell (3/1), 22 vs. Columbia (3/2), 20 vs. Princeton (3/9) … Scored his 1,000th career point at Penn in the win over the Lions, becoming the 43rd player in program history to reach the milestone and doing it in his 73rd game which was tied for 18th-fastest in program history with former Ivy Players of the Year Mike Jordan and Ugonna Onyekwe ... NABC Honors Court.
2022-23: (
Game-by-Game in PDF) Played in 27 of 30 games, making 26 starts … Second on the team in overall scoring, with 13.6 points per game … Finished second on the team with 28 steals, fourth with 48 assists … Hit 40 three-pointers and went 63-72 at the foul line (87.5 percentage) … AMONG IVY LEAGUE PLAYERS (all): Third in FT percentage (.875), eighth in points per game (13.6) … AMONG IVY LEAGUE PLAYERS (conference): Ninth in FT percentage (.837) … Hit double figures in the scoring column 16 times, reaching the 30-point mark twice and the 20-point mark four other times … Led Penn in scoring in six games, led the Quakers in rebounds twice … Named all-tournament at the Cathedral Classic after dropping 70 points across wins over Hartford (11 pts), Colgate (career-high 33) and Delaware (26) … Also had three rebounds and three steals against both the Raiders and the Blue Hens … Scored 31 points in Penn’s Ivy opener, a win at Brown (1/2) … Had back-to-back 21-point games against Missouri (11/11) and Towson (11/13), adding 11 combined rebounds and draining five treys against the Tigers … Recorded 20 points, five rebounds and three assists at West Virginia (11/18) … Finished with 19 points, six boards and four assists in home rematch with Brown (2/18) … Scored 17 points in home finale against Dartmouth (2/25) and Ivy League Tournament semifinal loss to Princeton (3/11) … Went for seven points and a career-high eight rebounds in regular-season finale at Princeton (3/4) … Scored 18 points, added five rebounds and three assists in Big 5 game vs. Saint Joseph’s (11/30) … Hit for 16 points in win at Drexel (11/15) … Went for 28 points across two games with Cornell, scoring 15 in Ithaca (1/6) and 13 at home (2/4) … Also had a 13-point outing in Ivy win over Yale (2/17) … Scored six points and dished out a career-high five assists in overtime win at Lafayette (11/22) ... NABC Honors Court.
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2021-22: (
Game-by-Game in PDF) Played in 25 of 28 games, making starts against Arkansas (11/28) and Dartmouth (2/26) … Averaged 10.7 points per game, second on the team, and 2.1 rebounds … Also had 33 assists and 11 steals … Finished second on the team with 15 double-figure scoring games, ten of them coming in Ivy play … Led Penn in scoring four times … AMONG IVY LEAGUE PLAYERS (all): 10th in field-goal percentage (.464), 15th in points per game (10.7) … AMONG IVY LEAGUE PLAYERS (conference): 11th in field-goal percentage, 13th in points per game (12.4) … Led Penn with 25 points, a season/career high, and had two steals against the Razorbacks (11/28) … Dropped a team-high 19 points, three rebounds and three assists in a win over Cornell (1/7) … Followed up with 11 points in a win over Columbia (1/8), earning Ivy League Rookie of the Week … Had 18-point games at Yale (2/18) and Dartmouth (2/26) leading the Quakers in both contests, and had two assists against the Big Green … Followed up the Yale performance with 16 points at Brown (2/19), including the winning basket with 0.4 seconds left, and was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week following that contest … Dropped 15 points in a win over Harvard (2/12) … Recorded 13 points, four rebounds, three assists and a steal in a win over Yale (1/22) to earn Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors … Scored 13 points, added five boards in a win at Bucknell (11/14) … Followed up with 11 points in home-opening win over Lafayette (11/16) … In collegiate debut, recorded 12 points, four rebounds, two assists and one steal in nearly 30 minutes at Florida State (11/10) … Scored 11 points and dished out three assists in a home win over Dartmouth (1/15) … Scored 10 points, added three boards and two assists in Penn’s first win at Harvard in a decade (1/28) … Recorded 12 points and five rebounds vs. Princeton (3/5).
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2020-21: All 2020-21 Ivy League winter sports were canceled on November 12 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19.
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High School: Four-year letter winner in basketball … Team captain as a senior and led his team to a 27-3 record … Head coach at Oak Park was Aaron Shaw … Scored 2,833 points in his career, finishing second in Ventura County history and 17th in California history … Helped his team to three Coastal Canyon League (CCL) championships … Oak Park went 89-30 during his four years … Led the state of California in scoring (31.0 ppg) and CCL Player of the Year as a senior … Ventura County Coaches Player of the Year and
Ventura Country Star Player of the Year as a senior … Third-team MaxPreps All-State … First-team All-CIF Southern Section Division 2 … First-team All-Los Angeles Times and All-Daily News … Led his class in scoring in the state of California as a junior, earning first-team All-CCL, first-team all-county, and first-team All-Daily News … Second-team CIF Southern Section Division 1 as a junior … First-team All-CCL and all-county as a sophomore … SoCal Freshman of the Year and Daily News Newcomer of the Year in 2016-17 … First-team All-CCL and second-team all-county as a freshman … Dean’s List.
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Personal: Son of Laura and Davis Slajchert … Older brother, Wes, played basketball at Dartmouth … Older brother, J.D., played basketball at UC Santa Barbara … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.