Aspire Prep Academy had a lot of success in their first year, and also did a very good job of bringing in top talent for the program. 6-foot-8, 221-pound senior forward Rodrigue Hughes Tha Andela is a superb athletic talent with an excellent physical frame. Recently, Andela decided on a junior college program for his future. After going through his options for college, Andela decided on Bismarck Junior College (ND), a community college located in Bismarck, North Dakota Hugues Tha Andela came to Aspire and also to the United States in September from his home country of Cameroon, West Africa. …
Author: Anthony Ray
The Arizona Preps Spring Classic took place on Sunday @ Rancho Solano Prep Academy in North Scottsdale, and featured the state’s top club programs and many of the state’s top players. With 16 different teams in action on the day, the scouts and media in attendance were able to catch some very good and lesser known college prospects. With numerous college coaches, scouts and media in attendance for the day’s events, there were many top performers on the day. Here are the top individual prospects that I observed on the day (in no particular order), led by Tournament Most Valuable…
The Arizona Preps organization has been known for almost 20 years now for helping Arizona’s best basketball talent gain maximum exposure to college coaches. Through our tremendous dedication to our craft and through a large number of developed relationships with college coaches across the country, our staff is the best in Arizona at creating scholarship opportunities for Arizona. This was evidenced last week during the week of the Final Four, as hundreds of college coaches traveled to the state for the festivities. The state of Arizona’s basketball fans have waited for this event to come to the state for a…
The Arizona Preps Spring Classic took place on Sunday @ Rancho Solano Prep Academy in North Scottsdale, and featured the state’s top club programs and many of the state’s top players. With 16 different teams in action on the day, the scouts and media in attendance were able to catch some very good and lesser known college prospects. While there were many top performers on the day, one prospect stood out from the rest, as Aspire Academy’s 6-foot-3 sophomore guard Joel Brown impressed the scouts in attendance with his superb play. For his efforts, Brown was selected as this year’s…
This year’s 9th Annual Arizona Preps Spring Classic (NCAA Final Four Edition) is scheduled for this Sunday @ Rancho Solano Prep. The event will be held on Sunday, April 2nd, 2017 at the beautiful Rancho Solano Prep School – located in North Scottsdale (9180 East Vía de Ventura, Scottsdale, AZ 85258). This event will be filled with many of the state’s top club programs in action on the day. This event will be filled with excitement and loads of exposure for each participant involved. This event will, once again, be attended by some of the top national and regional basketball…
Since re-opening up his college recruitment recently, Shadow Mountain High School 2017 graduate, 6-foot-1 senior point guard Marcus Shaver has seen his college reruitment begin to soar. This week Shaver received a visit from a PAC-12 program. This week the University of Utah came to visit Shaver at his high school program – expressing serious interest in the talented prospect. As a result, Shaver is beginnign to heat up with many college programs at all levels of college recruitment. Marcus Shaver (UC-Santa Barbara signee) is one Arizona prospect that many local basketball enthusiasts this high school season believed could have…
Shadow Mountain would turn in the best effort of the high school season this year, and as a result, they would compete at a high level against one of the nation’s premier teams in the country. As a result, the team would go into a battle with a team that is known for playing on the highest stage and winning. Shadow Mountain is also widely known for winning as well in their state. Shadow Mouintain High School won this yar’s 2017 state title after winning the 5A Division state championship. Shadow Mountain has been the class of the state this…
This weekend, while every other Arizona club program was taking part in a local event, the Powerhouse Hoops 17U Black team jumped on a plane and traveled to Chicago, Illinois to take part in the Baylor All-Star Classic. The team would not only fair well in the event, they would win it all after a last second shot from Saguaro’s 6-foot-5 junior wing Jared Martin in the championship game. The team would defeat nationally acclaimed Mac Irvin Fire (IL) in the championship game on Sunday, 71-68. The talented Tucson combination of Sunnyside HS 6-foot-7 junior forward Nikc Jackson and 6-foot-3…
This weekend’s always exciting Southwest Showcase Main Event, organized by valley basketball aficionado Ron Coleman, did not disappoint, as much of the state’s top basketball talent got together on their respective club teams to face off. With top-rated NBA draft prospect Marvin Bagley in action as well with his Phoenix Pfamily club team, the audience got their moneys worth this weekend. I absolutely enjoyed myself over the weekend, attending Saturday and Sunday’s action, and catching a good glimpse of many of the state’s top players in action before the start to the club season. Phoenix Pfamily was the absolute class…
The wait is finally over for one of the most talented wing prospects in the West. After helping Hillcrest Prep win a national championship this high school season, 6-foot-6 senior wing Alfred Hollins has found a college home. The gifted performer has given a verbal commitment to a program in the PAC-12 Conference. On Tuesday afternoon, Hollins decided that he had found his fit – giving a verbal pledge to Oregon State University and head coach Wayne Tickle and his staff. Hollins had recently began to generate loads of college interest, as such college programs as Georgetown became very serious…