Valley City (VCSU- CSi) – Valley City State University men’s basketball coach Jeff Kaminsky has gone overseas to find the Vikings latest recruit.

Kaminsky announced Tuesday that the Vikings have signed Jason Ralph, a 5-foot-11 guard from Ipswich, Australia, to a letter of intent. Ralph will attend VCSU and join the men’s basketball team starting this fall.

Ralph has averaged 11.6 points and 6.4 assists per game this summer playing with the Ipswich Force in the Australia-State League. He recently scored a career-high 27 points, helping his team to a 116-111 victory. He is shooting 49 percent from the field and 30 percent on 3-pointers, while also pulling down 4.5 rebounds per game.

Ralph has had success at several previous levels in his career. He led the Queensland Basketball League in assists during the 2014 season, and was first in scoring at 30.6 points per game for the Under 21 BWJBC Men. He was also named the Under 21 Ipswich Force MVP, and was a captain of the 2014 Under 20 Men’s Queensland team.