Mountain View High School - Mesa, AZ - December 26-31, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 7th Annual VisitMesa.com Basketball Challenge
Five out-of-state schools, top schools in Arizona participate over the holidays
MESA, AZ – VisitMesa.com, Mesa Public Schools, and Monarch Sports are pleased to announce the 7th Annual VisitMesa.com Basketball Challenge scheduled December 26-31 at Mountain View High School in Mesa, AZ.
Teams participating are: Dobson/Mesa, AZ; Clark/Las Vegas, NV; Houston Christian/Houston, TX; Pinnacle/Phoenix, AZ; Mountain View/Mesa, AZ; St. John Bosco/Bellflower, CA; Red Mountain/Mesa, AZ; Orem/Orem, UT; Desert Mountain/Scottsdale, AZ; Jefferson/Brooklyn, NY; Gilbert/Gilbert, AZ; Chaparral/Scottsdale, AZ; Salpointe Catholic/Tucson, AZ; Gilbert Christian/Gilbert, AZ; Pinnacle/Phoenix, AZ; Corona del Sol/Tempe, AZ.
Note the tournament features several players who’ve committed to Division I programs:
Payton Dastrup (6-10, 2014); Mountain View; committed to BYU
Jake Toolson (6-5, 2014); Highland; committed to BYU
Dalton Nixon (6-7, 2014); Orem; committed to BYU
Diontae Jones (6-6, 2014); Clark; committed to Wyoming
Cameron Denson (6-1, 2014); Salpointe Catholic; committed to Arizona (football)
Dorian Pickens (6-4, 2014); Pinnacle; committed to Stanford
Kodi Justice (6-4, 2014); Dobson; committed to Arizona State
Casey Benson (6-3, 2014); Corona del Sol; committed to Oregon
Ryan Richardson (6-4, 2014); Dobson; committed to Weber State
Daniel Hamilton (6-6, 2014); St. John Bosco; committed to UConn
Sam Jones (6-7, 2014); Gilbert Christian; committed to Penn
Dane Kuiper (6-7, 2014); Corona del Sol; committed to New Mexico
Connor MacDougall (6-9, 2014) Corona del Sol; committed to Arizona State
The tournament schedule is available at ArizonaBasketballChallenge.org.
Site of the four-day event is Toro Gym on the campus of Mountain View High School, 2700 East Brown Road (NE corner of Lindsay/Brown) in Mesa, AZ. The tournament title sponsor is VisitMesa.com, which is the website for the Mesa Convention & Visitor’s Bureau. The VisitMesa.com Basketball Challenge is under the direction of Marc A. Beasley of Monarch Sports and Dr. Steve Hogen, Athletic Director for Mesa Public Schools. The host hotel is The Hyatt Place Phoenix-Mesa in Mesa, AZ. Daily info/updates can be found on Twitter (@MarcBeasley) or on Facebook (search VisitMesa.com Basketball Challenge).
Monarch Sports is a sports-event management company based in Gilbert, AZ. If you have any questions or need information, please contact Marc A. Beasley at 602.321.1369 or marc@monarchsportsaz.com.
