Eastern Washington University men's basketball head coach Shantay Legans has announced the addition of high school guard Mike Meadows to the Eagle program.
 
The six-foot-2, 175-pound Meadows is from Studio City, Calif., and averaged 24 points, five assists and five rebounds as a senior for Campbell Hall High School.
 
"Mike is a tremendous addition to our Eastern family and will make a huge impact for years to come," said Legans. "His basketball ability combined with his commitment to the classroom will make him fit in perfectly with the kind of culture we are building."
 
A four-year player at Campbell Hall, he earned all-league honors each season. In 2017-18 he helped the Vikings finish 20-10 and advance to the quarterfinals of the 2018 CIF Division 2AA Southern Section Playoffs.
 
Earlier in the season, he helped his team win the Burbank Tournament with a perfect 5-0 record. Meadows scored 22 points in a 57-50 victory over Westlake for the title, and was selected to the all-tournament team.
 
While at Campbell Hall, Meadows had an accumulative 3.2 grade point average. He is interested in pursuing business at EWU, and his volunteer service has included working at youth basketball camps.
 
His mother is Berry Simpson and his father is Mike Meadows Sr. He has two siblings, Aubree and Eli.
 
The Eagles had just three seniors on their 2017-18 roster, and have previously announced the addition of two players who will be freshmen in 2017-18, plus a transfer. Most recently, Austin Fadal signed a letter of intent after attending Hillcrest Prep in Arizona in 2017-18 and graduating in 2017 from Monte Vista High School in the East Bay near San Francisco.
 
In November, the Eagles signed Elijah Jackson from Seattle's Chief Sealth High School, and had five players – including a trio of freshmen -- redshirt the 2017-18 season at EWU. The transfer is Ralueke Orizu from Savannah State in Georgia.
 
The Eagles had a highly-competitive and highly-successful season in the first year at the helm for Legans. His squad went on a late-season eight-game winning streak that was the best in 14 years, and the Eagles were among a record six Big Sky teams who won at least 20 games in the 2017-18 season
 
At 20-15 on the year, Eastern had 20 victories for the second-straight season and the third time in the last four, with EWU achieving that mark just one other time in the school's 35 seasons as a member of NCAA Division I. This year's team is just one of six in the school's 35-year NCAA Division I history to have at least 18, including the last four seasons in a row.
 
­­­The Eagles played 11 opponents who advanced to national postseason tournaments, with the Eagles winning five of the 15 meetings against those teams. After beating Portland State 78-72 and Southern Utah 82-70 in the in Big Sky Conference Tournament, the Eagles fell to regular season champion Montana 82-65 in the championship game.
 
Eastern, which had a 41-29 halftime lead against the Grizzlies, then fell 87-65 at Utah Valley in the first round of the College Basketball Invitational. That marked the fourth-straight season the Eagles have played in national postseason tournaments, including the 2015 NCAA Tournament.