Seattle guard Peyton Brooks commits to Shelton State basketball

Peyton Brooks is headed to Shelton State Community College, giving the Seattle-area guard a direct NJCAA Division I launchpad after building his name across several West Coast basketball stops. Brooks, a 2026-class combo guard listed at 6-foot-3 and 145 pounds, committed to the Bucs on June 29, bringing an O’Dea High School and LocalHOOPS Training Academy background into a Shelton State program that has spent the last year winning at the top of the Alabama Community College Conference.

The fit starts with the role. Brooks has been tracked as a point guard and shooting guard, the kind of perimeter piece Shelton State can hand the ball to or park on the wing depending on lineup needs. Prep Hoops lists him as a 6-foot-3 shooting guard in the 2026 class who plays club basketball for Local Hoops, while Hudl identifies him as an O’Dea varsity player in the PG and SG spots. For a junior-college staff, that kind of positional flexibility matters because it gives Joe Eatmon another guard who can handle the ball, guard multiple backcourt spots and grow into a bigger workload.

The recruitment footprint behind the commitment was real, not theoretical. Brooks’ FieldLevel profile was created on June 15, 2023, and before the Shelton State decision it showed interest from 39 different schools, along with 40 search appearances, 12 profile views, 4 video views and 3 followers. Those numbers do not measure points or assists, but they do show that college staffs were paying attention while Brooks worked through multiple development settings in Seattle.

Shelton State gives him a strong place to cash in that attention. The Bucs compete in NJCAA Division I and the ACCC, and they finished 25-7 overall and 11-3 in league play in 2025-26. They clinched the conference regular-season title with an 87-57 win over Gadsden State on March 2, then pushed all the way to the ACCC championship game before falling 71-68 to Bishop State on March 14. Eatmon’s staff, which also includes Marcus Anthony, Cooper Hutto and Leon Douglas, gives Brooks an established development lane in Tuscaloosa.

For Brooks, the move signals a clear priority: get stronger, tighten the decision-making and prove he can run a college backcourt against older, physical competition. If he takes the floor early and holds it, Shelton State could be the kind of stop that turns a 6-foot-3 Seattle combo guard into a bigger name by the time next year’s recruiting cycle opens.