One of North Carolina’s top high school basketball players is leaving the state
One of North Carolina’s best high school basketball players will not play in the state during his senior season.
Chambers High School’s Tarris Bouie is transferring to SPIRE Academy, a boarding school in Geneva, Ohio, for his senior season. Bouie posted the news on his social media account Monday morning.
SPIRE is coached by Kevin Boyle, who built a national power at Montverde (Fla.) Academy near Orlando. SPIRE has eight basketball courts, a 25,000 square foot performance training center and a 750-acre campus with 850,000 square feet of indoor sports facilities.
Boyle, an eight-time national high school coach of the year, coached NBA players like Cooper Flagg, Cade Cunningham and RJ Barrett at Montverde. Before Montverde, he coached Kyrie Irving in high school in New Jersey. Boyle was hired in March.
SPIRE was 16-19 last season, but the arrival of Boyle will likely mean a talent infusion with players like Bouie, a 6-foot-7 wing who led Chambers to the state semifinals last season.
Bouie, an All-Observer first-team pick, is the No. 4 recruit in North Carolina in the class of 2026, according to 247 Sports and a top 100 national recruit. He averaged 20.2 points, 7.6 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 1.9 steals and 1.9 blocks.
This story was originally published April 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM.
