One of the top girls prospects in the state of Arizona has not even entered high school as of yet. 7th grader and middle school phenom Alyssa Alvarez is among the best individual basketball talents I have ever seen, and she will not enter the high school ranks for more than another year. Currently a middle school prospect at Desert Shadows Middle School, Alvarez is a big-time young talent with an advanced skillset and a nice overall feel for the game. Her ability to shoot the basketball and create scoring opportunities for herself and others suggest that she will only develop…
Author: Anthony Ray
One of the top guard prospects in Arizona’s 2015 class of players is Corona Del Sol High School’s talented 5-foot-7 junior Taylor Kalmer. Kalmer is coming off a strong junior season where she put up impressive numbers for a team that would finish 16-12 on the season. Kalmer emerged as one of the top overall prospects in Arizona’s junior class with her performance this season and now looks to be headed toward a strong spring and summer performance that could help boost her overall college recruitment. Recently, I had the opportunity to watch Kalmer perform in this year’s Southwest Showcase Main…
With the emergence and rise of the Team Bibby club basketball program in the state of Arizona, the level of basketball in the state has simply been raised to another level. Sporting young kids of all ages on the boys and girls side, former NBA star guard Mike Bibby and his family and friends have developed some of the state’s premier basketball talent. Last weekend, while participating in this year’s Double Pump Spring Hoop Fest, Team Bibby, as they are known, would take home the tournament championship for the 16U and 15U Divisions of the tournament – a very impressive feat for one program from Arizona. …
While the majority of Arizona club teams were in California this weekend, several Arizona club teams traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada to take part in the Pangos Spring Spectacular event. While participating in one of the top exposure events of the spring, many Arizona prospects from the 2014, 2015 and 2016 classes raised their overall recruiting stock this weekend. The Arizona Magic Elite 17U team and the Arizona Stars 17U teams would advance to the Elite 8 of the event, while the Arizona Magic Elite 16U squad would reach the tournament’s semi-finals before being knocked out of the event. While many…
The Arizona Magic Elite 17U girls program is in their first year of operation under the Arizona Magic club basketball program. After playing in a couple local tournaments where the team struggled to find their identity, the program traveled to Santa Ana, California this weekend to take part in the U.S. Junior Nationals California Classic basketball tournament – an NCAA Certified event. The event was held at nationally acclaimed Mater Dei High School, and included many top-rated girls programs in the West – including more than 115 different teams in the event. With several other major girls tournaments taking place around…
Arizona’s 2016 class of prospects is absolutely loaded and looks to be the next up-and-coming class of prospects in the state that will mirror the success of the strong 2014 class that the state just experienced. This class is loaded with top-rated young prospects for division-I college coaches to take a strong look at. One of the elite-level prospects in the class is Gilbert High School’s 6-foot-6 sophomore wing prospect Chris Bowling. Bowling is already off to a fast start in the spring evaluation period, and is picking up high-major interest as a result. This high school season, on a loaded Gilbert…
One of the premier available unsigned senior prospects in Arizona’s 2014 class, Gilbert High School’s 6-foot-7 senior forward Spencer Nicolds, is now also off the recruiting board. Nicolds has flown well below the recruiting radar this high school season, and has just began to see his college recruitment really pick up. On Thursday evening, after receiving a division-I offer from Idaho State University and head coach Bill Evans and his staff, and on the eve of this weekend’s Double Pump Spring Hoop Fest in Los Angeles, CA, Nicolds accepted a division-I offer from the program – giving a verbal commitment to the program. Nicolds will take…
The number of available prospects in Arizon’a 2014 senior class is beginning to dwindle as we continue to see the spring evaluation period develop. Two more top-rated prospects in Arizona’s 2014 class are off the board after Mesquite High School’s talented 6-foot-4, 180-pound senior shooting guard prospect Zach Green and Vista Grande’s developing 6-foot-9 senior post Quin Price both signed this week with a basketball program in the Big Sky Conference. Green and price took an official recruiting visit last weekend together to Montana State University. With the recent hiring of former University of oregon assistant coach Brian Fish as the…
One of the premier available unsigned senior prospects in Arizona’s 2014 class is Gilbert High School’s 6-foot-7 senior forward Spencer Nicolds. Nicolds has flown well below the recruiting radar this high school season, and is just recently beginning to pick up serious attention from college coaches. As a result of Arizona’s 2014 class being so strong, many prospects in the class have seen their college recuitment suffer this year – with many top-rated prospects in the state still being available after going almost unnoticed. Nicolds is one of these prospects. In a normal year, a player of Nicolds’ caliber would receive much higher college…
The 2013-2014 high school basketball season was a special season for Millennium High School’s terrific 5-foot-7 sophomore guard Raina Perez. Perez did almost everything for the Millennium High School basketball program this season – leading the program to a strong 27-4 overall record on the season. As a mere sophomore, Perez would take the state of Arizona by storm and earn First-Team All-State honors this season by the Arizona Republic. Perez emerged this high school season as a special prospect in the state of Arizona. While she is only a mere sophomore guard, she has developed into the top overall point guard prospect…