Olympia boys basketball's Nicholas Blake commits to Maryland

The 6-foot-2 sharpshooting guard is the son of NCAA National Champion with the Terrapins and former NBA player Steve Blake.

By Sam Albuquerque
| 12:00 a.m. June 6, 2025

Sports
High Schools

Olympia High boys basketball player Nicholas Blake, son of NCAA National Champion and former NBA player Steve Blake, has announced his commitment to play college basketball for his father’s alma mater, the Maryland Terrapins.

The 6-foot-2 sharpshooting guard averaged 10.6 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 28 games in his lone season for the Titans, after transferring from Windermere High.

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Sam Albuquerque

A native of João Pessoa, Brazil, Sam Albuquerque moved in 1997 to Central Florida as a kid. After earning a communications degree in 2016 from the University of Central Florida, he started his career covering sports as a producer for a local radio station, ESPN 580 Orlando. He went on to earn a master’s degree in editorial journalism from Northwestern University, before moving to South Carolina to cover local sports for the USA Today Network’s Spartanburg Herald-Journal. When he’s not working, you can find him spending time with his lovely wife, Sarah, newborn son, Noah, and dog named Skulí.