Desert Mountain High School (3-1) has had an excellent start to the new high school season. After a terrific weekend at the Hoop Hall West event, but also suffering their first loss of the season to Pinnacle High School, Desert Mountain is on the rise in Arizona and in the West. This talented group of performers has already proven that they are one of the clear favorites to compete for this year’s Open Division State Championship, although they lack depth on their bench. On Tuesday evening, the talented and young starting five for Desert Mountain played the majority of minutes…
Author: Anthony Ray
Desert Mountain High School (2-1) had a very exciting weekend for themselves, as the team opened up their new season with this year’s exciting Hoop Hall West event at Chaparral High School. While playing and winning two exciting games in the Hoop Hall showcase event over the weekend, Desert Mountain would fall to Pinnacle High School on a last second shot, 98-97, in a super exciting regular season match-up. Desert Mountain would compete in three monster games in a row during the weekend, and would highlight their weekend with a huge 81-74 win over West Coast giant, Sierra Canyon High…
Former Adidas Grassroots Director of Basketball of Operations Chris Rivers has transitioned over the years, since operating one of the most powerful sports franchises in the sport of basketball. Rivers has served in numerous roles throughout his illustrious career and been very influential in helping shoe companies, such as Adidas and Reebok, develop and cultivate thousands of intimate relationships with today’s top performing basketball athletes and prospects. Since leaving Adidas several years ago, Rivers has found a new vision and focus for himself, in which he looks to create a much more impactful and positive approach to helping today’s student-athletes. Today, Rivers now…
On Friday at this year’s Hoop Hall West event at Scottsdale’s Chaparral High School, and after some exciting action on Thursday evening, our pre-season #1 team in the state overall, Perry High School and also another one of our top overall teams in the state, Basha High School, would both compete on the evening, but against top-rated out-of-state high school programs. Perry would face off with Archbishop Stepinac High School (NY), while Basha would match-up with Campbell Hall High School (CA). The Perry / Stepinac match-up would feature two of the nation’s elite talents, 6-foot-8 junior Koa Peat and 6-foot-4…
In the second exciting match-up of the evening on Thursday @ The Hoop Hall West event, two more of our elite teams in the state would face off in another exciting contest. Desert Mountain High School, our #4 ranked team in the state overall, would face off with Notre Dame Prep, our #5 overall team in the state overall. Desert Mountain was looking to debut their new high school season, while Notre Dame Prep had already knocked off St. Mary’s High School in their season debut, and on the road in fine fashion. Notre Dame Prep would be looking to…
The exciting Hoop Hall West event is in full action now, especially after Thursday night’s games, which included several really good match-ups on the evening to kickstart this year’s event in Arizona. While our staff has marveled this pre-season at the parity between the state’s top teams, this year’s Hoop Hall West waited no time bringing some of the state’s top teams together – matching them up for full head-to-head competition. These match-ups in this year’s event have done my job for me early in the season – proving just how good each program is, by matching them up with…
Last week was a coming-out-party of sorts for Prescott High School and their talented 2025 Class duo of juniors, 6-foot junior guard Uriah Tenette and 6-foot-11 junior post Zane Gaul, atleast for Prescott fans. Tenette and Gaul have come together in each game to lead Prescott to a 3-1 start to the high school season. Prescott is projected as one of our top programs in the state this high school season. and the early production and play of Tenette, combined with the strong support of Gaul, has Prescott as a strong contender to compete for a 4A State Title this…
The Arizona Preps platform has been reporting on Arizona high school and junior college basketball since October of 1999, and has published more than 5,000 different stories about Arizona’s top student-athletes. Now the Arizona Preps’ platform has become just as big on social media, as our Arizona Preps website once was in the early 2000’s. This week our Arizona Preps Instagram https://www.instagram.com/arizonapreps/ page reached more than 10,000 different followers, which was an impressive accomplishment for our staff, as we have worked tirelessly over the past several years to improve our social media platform for Arizona and the regional basketball community.…
The exciting 20th Annual Mesa Fear The Hop Tournament took place all week last week on the campus of Mesa High School and included (16) high school teams, with two teams from out of state competing over the week long event. Here are the selections for the All-Tournament Teams for the event, including my player evaluations for some of these top performers, including the Tournament Most Valuable Player – 6-foot-2 senior forward AJ Seumanu (Not in ranking order) . . . Mesa Fear The Hop Top Performers – Player Evaluations AJ Seumanu 6-2 SR SF/PF Mesa High School (Mesa, AZ)…
From our entire Arizona Preps’ staff, we would like to wish everyone in the Arizona basketball community a Happy Thanksgiving and also a Happy Holidays, as Christmas begins to approach. But first, we would like to thank all of our supporters – the high school and prep players, coaches, scouts, media and, of course, the many parents that make it all possible. Arizona Preps has been covering Arizona high school and junior college basketball since 1999! To all the high school, prep school and junior college coaches and players in the state, we would like to give thanks to all…