Arizona Preps recently announced our NEW partnership with Zipps Sports Grill in Arizona. The local growing chain of Sports Restaurants has partnered with Arizona Preps to provide awards and scholarship opportunities for Arizona’s top boys and girls student-athletes throughout the state each month. Zipps Sports Grill is one of the state’s premier and most popular sports grills, and combines homemade food, friendly service and drinks, with top-notch entertainment in your neighborhood. The chain has (14) different locations in the valley, and we encourage the entire Arizona basketball community to visit their locations today! Zipps is supporting the Arizona High School basketball community a great…
Author: Anthony Ray
The 22nd Annual Arizona Preps Fall Showcase has concluded, and, in the process, helped many high school basketball programs, for boys and girls, get back to playing basketball in fine fashion. With close to (100) different high school varsity boys and girls teams in action on Saturday, this year’s Fall Showcase event was one of a kind, and the biggest installment ever of it’s kind for the Arizona Preps’ organization. The original showcase event for the state, the Arizona Preps Fall Showcase has been around for a long time, and this year’s event was the best ever. Arizona high schools,…
The Arizona Preps Basketball/Recruiting Academy (Featuring Arizona Preps Basketball Scout Anthony Ray) will start up again around the valley @ local high schools, beginning on Saturday, November 7th, 2020 from 10AM to 12PM @ 8201 East Loos Drive, Prescott Valley, AZ 86314 @ The Boys and Girls Club. The Basketball Academy will be provided for individual prospects (Boys & Girls), and will be limited to 50 Prospects per/session for boys and girls (Ages 13 to 18). The cost for each participant will be $50 per session per participant. We also INVITE Parents to attend the sessions as well. Cost for Parents of participants is FREE. Each Academy will have a featured…
The Border League event took place in Gilbert, Arizona, this weekend for the first time, and it was a very exciting event to cover. While there were many top-rated programs from around the country in this event, the performance of the Arizona high school and prep programs brought the fans and also raised the overall value of the event. No game was more exciting this weekend, than the exciting match-up on Saturday evening between two Arizona prep powers – AZ Compass Prep and Hillcrest Prep. While it had been sometime since we have seen these two programs match-up, this year’s…
With the 22nd Annual Arizona Preps Fall Showcase taking place next weekend at Inspire Courts on Saturday, October 31st, the Arizona Preps’ staff is proud to again release the All-Time Top 20 Performers Team from the past (21) previous Fall Showcase events. This team is comprised of the Top 20 Performers from this exciting event over the past 21 years, and includes some of the best prospects to ever come out of the state. Here are the Top 20 Performers from all-time for the Arizona Preps Fall Showcase. Our staff is very proud to release this group of all-star participants to you – proving that the Fall Showcase has…
The time has arrived after 20 years of events and 20 years of operations for the Arizona Preps website (www.arizonapreps.com), the amazing 22nd Annual Arizona Preps Fall Showcase, Arizona’s original showcase basketball event, will be continuing a new era for our website and this annual event going forward, as we continue the Arizona Preps Fall Showcase Top 25 Invitational. The NEW format of the annual event will invite (25) of the state’s top high school varsity teams (boys and girls) to participate in two games on Saturday, October 31st, 2020. The event is loaded this year, and will have close to (100) different Arizona high…
PHH Prep’s 6-foot-3 junior guard Andrew King recently decided to change high school programs – leaving defending 6A State Champion Desert Vista High School and moving to PHHoenix Prep, where he will begin his junior season. King has seen his recruitment take off as of late, and this week, King gave a big and early verbal commitment to Rice University and Head Coach Scott Pera. Anthony Ray and Arizona Preps caught up with King this weekend regarding his big commitment and his thoughts about his future . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAiltc5OnbE
PHH Prep’s talented and skilled 6-foot-6 senior wing JT Elder (Portland State commit) is a really nice talent that many college programs did not know much about. The athletic and gifted prospect has had a terrific fall performance, despite COVID restrictions, and recently gave a verbal commitment to Portland State University. Anthony Ray and Arizona Preps caught up with Elder this weekend after his terrific performance in the Arizona Prep Kick-Off event at The PHHacility. Recruited by Portland State assistant coach Jase Coburn, Portland State is getting a steal with this young man . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4IuFTNb2kw
Hillcrest Prep’s 6-foot-10 senior superstar forward Mike Foster is among the nation’s premier talents and is a future NBA prospect. The gifted senior forward has recently narrowed down his list of college programs, and is beginning his final high school season, which will be one to remember. Anthony Ray and Arizona Preps caught up with Foster this weekend after one of his performances in the Border League event in Gilbert, Arizona. I spoke with him regarding this year’s Hillcrest Prep team and also what he has been working on in his game to prepare for the next level . .…
One of the elite prospects in the state of Arizona, regardless of class, is Desert Vista High School’s explosive 6-foot, 165-pound junior guard Dasean Lecque. While Lecque did not have any scholarship offers for himself at the end of the last high school season or during the spring, no prospects has done more for their cause than Lecque as of late, as he has torched his competition throughout numerous events in the summer and now fall. As a result of his exploits and the reputation he has developed as a big-time guard prospect in America’s 2022 Class, Lecque picked up numerous…