FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Westwind Preparatory Academy Announces Basketball Staff Taking Arizona Basketball to the Next Level May 11, 2012 Westwind Preparatory Academy (WPA), a Phoenix, Arizona based charter school, a month ago announced the hiring of Jeff de Laveaga as their new Director of Basketball Operations. This week, de Laveaga has announced his impressive basketball staff consisting of some great basketball minds, former college and professional players and the valley’s most experienced trainers. “We’ve had a very busy few weeks since announcing the new direction of the program,” says de Laveaga. “I’ve received over 500 phones calls from players, parents,…
Author: Anthony Ray
This year’s 2012 Arizona Reebok Headliner Tryout Camp, held at Chaparral High School on Sunday, May 6th was one to remember – one of 13 camps of it’s kind across the country. This year’s field of participants was filled with talented prospects from across the state of Arizona, and also across the country. With many prospects in attendance from the state of California, Louisiana, New York, Vegas, Florida and New Mexico, this year’s group of participants were fired up to compete for an invitation to this year prestigious Reebok Breakout Camp – sponsored by Reebok and NBA player John Wall…
This year’s 2012 Arizona Reebok Headliner Tryout Camp, held at Chaparral High School on Sunday, May 6th was one of 13 camps of it’s kind across the country. This year’s field of participants was filled with talented prospects from across the state of Arizona, and also across the country. With many prospects in attendance from the state of California, Louisiana, New York, Vegas, Florida and New Mexico, this year’s group of participants were fired up to compete for an invitation to this year prestigious Reebok Breakout Camp – sponsored by Reebok and NBA player John Wall (Washington Wizards). In front of more than 30 members of the…
This year’s 2012 Arizona Reebok Headliner Tryout Camp, held at Chaparral High School on Sunday, May 6th was one to remember – one of 13 camps of it’s kind across the country. This year’s field of participants was filled with talented prospects from across the state of Arizona, and also across the country. With many prospects in attendance from the state of California, Louisiana, New York, Vegas, Florida and New Mexico, this year’s group of participants were fired up to compete for an invitation to this year prestigious Reebok Breakout Camp – sponsored by Reebok and NBA player John Wall (Washington Wizards). In front of more…
After receiving his first official scholarship offer last week from local Arizona State University and head coach Herb Sendek and his basketball staff, South Mountain High School’s 6-foot-7 sophomore wing prospect Zylan Cheatham has received another offer from another PAC-12 program. Friday evening, Cheatham received an offer from the University of Colorado and head coach Tad Boyle and his staff. The offer from Colorado now brings Cheatham’s list of offers to two, with many more schools looking to get involved in the near future. “I am very excited,” said Cheatham about the second offer. “I can’t wait to tell my mom, she…
Corona Del Sol High School’s 6-foot-2 ultra-talented sophomore point guard Casey Benson has been on a tear in a short period of time thus far in his high school career. This year’s recipient of the 2012 Arizona Preps Player of the Year award, Benson has seen his college recruitment begin to really pick up steam early. After already possessing two division-I scholarship offers from Arizona State and Boise State before the spring evaluation period, Benson picked up another offer from the University of Colorado recently, and this week has reeled in another scholarship offer from a high-major program in the Athletic Coast Conference (ACC). …
Salpointe Catholic High School’s 6-foot-6, 205-pound senior forward Talbott Denny was among the top unsigned senior prospects in the state, especially after a terrific spring performance for himself. Denny helped himself this spring more than any other Arizona unsigned senior prospect with strong performances on the club circuit. After strong performances on this year’s spring circuit with his Tucson Pump N’ Run club team, Denny generated heavy recruiting interest for himself from many division-I programs across the country. As a result, Denny received several scholarship offers from smaller programs, and also division-I offers from Lipscomb University and Houtson Baptist University. He also…
Arizona Western 6-foot-9 sophomore post Renan Lenz has made his decision. After receiving very heavy recruiting interest over the past two seasons under head coach Charles Harell, Lenz has made his final decision after narrowing his long list of schools down to four. With four official recruiting visits lined up for himself, Renz would take trips to Virginia Tech, Auburn, USC and Utah before making his decision on a future program for himself. After careful consideration by the talented native of Porto De Algre, Brazil, Lenz has made his decision and signed a national letter of intent with the University of Utah…
Valley Vista High School’s girls basketbal program is up-and-coming in the state of Arizona. While only being in existence for five full seasons now, it is too early to regard Valley Vista as a powerhouse basketball program in the state – especially since the school is rather new and still developing it’s girl’s program. But the program is definitely on the rise as the Monsoon have recorded winning records in each of their last four seasons of play – compiling an impressive record of 88 wins and only 24 losses in the last fours seasons of action. And the program is coming off an excellent year this…
Northern Arizona new head coach Jack Murphy is very much like the head coach he worked for at Memphis – Josh Pastner. Murphy is very young, hardworking and even relentless, and getting it done in a major way since being hired. Murphy was recently hired to take over a struggling Northern Arizona basketball program and tasked with revitalizing the program’s commitment to recruiting the best basketball talent in the state of Arizona. While former head coach Mike Adras often recruited abroad and passed on much of the top-rated Arizona prospects, Murphy, in just two short weeks, has reeled in letters of intent from two of the state’s…