With such a loaded class of prospects in Arizona’s 2014 class, one player in the class that has soared under the recruiting radar, but is definitely among the best available overall prospects in the class is Gilbert Christian High School’s sharp-shooting 6-foot-7 senior guard/forward Sam Jones. With many prospects in the class looking to make their college decisions this fall, Jones looks to be nearing his college decision soon as well. I caught up with Jones this week and he advised me that he currently has two schools that he is strongly considering in his college recruitment. Jones recently took…
Author: Anthony Ray
The wait is finally over for one of the top post prospects in the country. On Thursday evening on the campus of his high school program, Mesa Mountain View’s talented and top-rated 6-foot-10, 235-pound senior post Payton Dastrup gave one of the biggest commitments in the state of Arizona’s history high school basketball history – giving a verbal commitment to Ohio State University and head coach Thad Matta. The commitment by Dastrup came as a major surprise to many in the basketball community – locally and around the country. Many, including myself, had believed that Dastrup would land at BYU, but Dastrup shocked…
Eastern Arizona Junior College’s top-rated returning 6-foot-1, 180-pound sophomore guard Taylor Stafford is coming off an excellent freshman season for his college program – garnering numerous post-season honors as a result of his freshman performance. On Tuesday evening, Stafford led his program to a big road win over host Glendale Junior College, 81-77 – pouring in a game-high 27 points in the victory. For Glendale Community College and head coach Damin Lopez, this season is the Gauchos best chance to win the league since 2004 when former head coach Howard Brown would lead the program to a strong season – being selected for both…
One of the state’s top overall girls prospects in Arizona’s 2015 junior class is Desert Mountain High School’s gifted 5-foot-7 junior point guard prospect Noell Kellers. Currently ranked as our #9 overall prospect in Arizona’s 2015 group of girl’s prospects, Keller is coming off an excellent performance in this year’s Arizona Preps Fall Showcase; a performance good enough to help her see an even bigger jump in our next player rankings release. Kellers was one of the major bright spots from this year’s Fall Showcase, as she dazzled the crowd in attendance with a superior handle of the basketball, which allowed her…
Another Arizona prospect that really benefited from this year’s performance in the Arizona Preps Fall Showcase was Independence High School’s 6-foot-4 junior guard Kaveon Moore. Moore went from almost obscurity as a college prospect before the event, to now becoming one of the elite prospects in the state’s 2015 class. Moore’s performance was enough to raise many eyebrows of scouts and media in attendance – raising Moore’s recruiting stock significantly by the end of the event. Moore got the event started off quickly with a big performance in the first game of the day – exploding for 18 first half points…
The Arizona Preps Fall Showcase has been consistently known over the years for producing the state’s top recruiting targets, as the event helps to create a coming-out-party atmosphere for the state’s top performers. No prospect in the event helped themselves more in the recent Showcase event than Gilbert High School’s rapidly developing 6-foot-7 senior forward Spencer Nicolds. Nicolds absolutely exploded in this year’s event – proving that he is worthy of serious division-I college recruitment in the spring. Nicolds developed into a serious recruiting target for college programs, as a result of his progress as a player throughout the spring and summer evaluation period. …
In last weekend’s 15th Annual Arizona Preps Fall Showcase, there were numerous top-rated girls prospects in the event and many top performances as a result. One of the elite performers in this year’s event was Tempe Prep Academy’s 6-foot-1 senior guard/forward Camille Zimmerman (Columbia University commit). While turning in a runner-up Tournament Most Valuable Player performance in the event, Zimmerman proved her #3 overall ranking among Arizona’s top 2014 prospects, while also making a strong case to be ranked even higher. Zimmerman is fresh off a recent commitment to Columbia University, and still played in the event – looking to compete…
Mesa Mountain View High School’s superb 6-foot-10, 235-pound senior post Payton Dastrup is set to announce his college decision – following in the footsteps of other top-rated prospects in Arizona’s 2014 class this fall. After recent commitments from top-recruited 2014 prospects, Zylan Cheatham (San Diego State commit) and Michael Humphrey (Stanford commit), Dastrup will now announce his college decision on Thursday, November 7th at 7PM on the campus of Mesa Mountain View High School. The recruiting process for Dastrup has been a long one, and he has had an impressive list of schools in hot pursuit of him for some time now. …
Westwind Prep Academy is back at it again, as the school has again brought in numerous top-rated prospects to the post-graduate and high school programs for the 2013-2014 season. With many talented college prospects in attendance at the school again, despite past troubles with the NCAA Clearinghouse, the new Westwind coaching staff is getting it done at a high level – raising the college recruitment and exposure of their prospective student-athletes. The first prospect at the school to benefit from such raised exposure is 6-foot-3 prep combo-guard prospect Collin Weaver. Weaver came to the school in an attempt to raise his recruiting…
The recruiting process for Sunnyslope High School’s talented 6-foot-10 senior post Michael Humphrey has been a very long one – beginning at this year’s Reebok Breakout Camp in Philadelphia, PA in July during the NCAA evaluation period. Humphrey went into the camp with very little to no college offers and left the camp as one of the hottest prospects in the West. Humphrey would then earn more than 40 different division-I scholarship offers during the busy recruiting month of July, while playing for his club program – the Arizona Magic, coached by Kenny Mullins and Gino Crump. Humphrey would then narrow down his list…