Sometimes, you have to do it yourself.
While most college seniors were frantically sending out resumes, attending countless job fairs and networking with potential employers this spring, Noah Savage was busy editing.
Savage personally pieced together a makeshift highlight reel from tapes of his four years at Princeton and former team manager Chris Chaney posted it on YouTube.
The 3:29 mashup of long range jumpers, face-first dives for loose balls and almost every dunk in Savage’s collegiate career helped land his first job after graduation - a spot on the roster of Switzerland’s Sam Massagno Basket.
“Chris made a web site with all of my stats and pictures. I had him talk to a bunch of people and an agent contacted me eventually,” said Savage. “It all happened pretty quickly.”
The recently promoted SAM Massagno Basket, who had an 18-3 record last year, will be spending its first season in the top division of Ligue Nationale de Basketball.
Massagno is just outside of Switzerland’s ninth largest city – Lugano, tucked in the southern tip of the country by the Italian border, about an hour from Milan.
“[The SAM Basket coaches] like that I can shoot. Looking at their roster, they’re not that enormous, so I assume maybe I’ll play inside too,” the 6’5” Savage told princetonbasketball.com. “They said they were going to try and sign two more Americans. They want to get a point guard and a center.”
Savage will head overseas at the end of August to join his new team.
