While we have not reported it since things took place two weeks ago at Sunnyslope High School, still trying to collect information on what occurred, Sunnyslope High School’s gifted 6-foot-3 senior guard prospect Sammy Barnes-Thompkins has now landed at Planet Athlete Academy in Phoenix. Barnes-Thompkins will finish out his final senior season of high school at the program after being dismissed from the basketball program at Sunnyslope. While the details of what took place at Sunnyslope are still unknown, and while I don’t care to go into detail about the matter on this website anyway, the bottom line is the…
Author: Anthony Ray
Parker High School has produced some good basketball talent over the years in boys basketball, and now they have one of the top girl’s prospects in the state. Still an unsigned member of Arizona’s 2015 class, Parker High School’s 5-foot-10 senior forward Sederia Carter is having a terrific senior season thus far – pouring in tremendous numbers for her team and making a strong case to be recruited at the division-I level this spring. Carter has led her Parker HS team to a 6-4 overall record this season, while averaging a team-high 18 points, 12 rebounds and 5.5 steals per/game…
While it has been an interesting road for Mountain Pointe High School 2014 graduate Chris Davis, he will now look to pick up his career and also look to develop on and off the basketball court at a top-rated junior college basketball program in Dodge City, Kansas. Davis has signed with Dodge City Junior College – one of the top junior college basketball programs in the country over the past 20 years. It has been a change of plans for Davis, as it was thought that Davis would spend a year as a post-graduate – competing all season for a…
Sierra Linda has had some very good basketball teams at their high schol in recent years, but this year looks to be their best team of all, as new head coach Joshua Haagensen and his team have compiled an impressive 11-1 start to the season. After this weekend’s tournament championship victory at the Horizon Holiday Hoops Invitational, the team has their sights set on competing for a Division-II state championship. On Saturday night, behind the superb play of 5-foot-8 junior guard Jorge Acuna, the team knocked off Horizon High School on their home floor in their own tournament. Acuna was…
Planet Athlete Academy is absolutely loaded with talent this year, and no one works harder than their organizer and Director of Operations, Eric Bowman in attracting some of the nation’s elite basketball talent to the rising program in the state. Bowman has brought together some of the best basketball talent in America to the state of Arizona this season, and he will have college coaches living at his practices this season. I caught up with Bowman recently regarding the college recruitment of two of his top overall prospects in the program, and he gave me a recruiting update on both…
The 2014-2015 junior college basketball season in the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC) is now in full swing. Here are this week’s Players of the Week in women’s basketball in the conference . . . ACCAC D-II Player of the Week: Kylie Herd – Mesa Herd averaged 12 points and 10 rebounds per game, including a 15 point, 13 rebound performance against Glendale CC. Herd also had 6 steals in that game. Mesa also beat Phoenix College with Herd contributing 9 points and 7 boards in the game. ACCAC D-I Player of the Week: Jazmin Horne – Eastern Arizona Horne…
Horizon High School has been up and down this high school season, but much of the team’s success this season has come from the strong inside play of 6-foot-4 junior post Katie Grant. Very few post players in the state of Arizona or in the West, for that matter, have the size and potential of Grant, as she is quickly developing into one of the elite overall prospects in Arizona’s 2016 class. Often post players have the last laugh in the development process, as they develop at their own pace and take time to mature physically. For Grant, her potential…
The 2014-2015 junior college basketball season in the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC) is now in full swing. Here are this week’s Players of the Week in men’s basketball in the conference . . . ACCAC D-II Player of the Week: Brandon Brown, Phoenix College Brandon Brown led Phoenix College to two more wins last week, including a 41-point effort in a triple-overtime victory over Glendale, 128-124. Brown shot 48% from the field including 44% from the 3-point line and 80% from the free throw line for the Bears. This is Brown’s second Player of the Week in a row for the ACCAC.…
This week’s match-up between Brophy Prep and Sunnyslope looked like a similar game to the previous match-up this season between the two teams, but instead was very different altogether. The two teams had met with one another, earlier in the season, in the championship game of the Hoopsgiving pre-season tournament at Sunnyslope. Brophy Prep (8-2) would win a nail-biter in overtime – a game in which Sunnyslope 6-foot-3 senior guard Sammy Barnes-Thompkins would pour in 31 points in the loss. On Monday evening, the two teams faced off again. The setting at Sunnyslope HS was very much the same, the crowd…
Shadow Mountain High School (7-2) will have a very tough schedule this season, and they have already faced some of the top talent in America already this season – losing their only game of the season thus far to 3-time defending state champion Corona Del Sol HS. With their former contest against Corona, and a future game against historic power DeMatha High School (MD), nothing can prepare a team for a match-up with the nation’s premier high school program – Findlay Prep (NV). Findlay Prep (10-0) has produced loads of NBA players and high-major division-I college talent over the past…