Coach John Saintignon is a former division-I assistant coach from Oregon State University, a former high school head coach from the state of Arizona and one of the all-time leading scorers at USC. Coach Saintignon currently coaches and trains professional players overseas, and wrote this excerpt for Arizona Preps in 2015. It still apply’s to today’s student-athlete. What does it take to get a college scholarship? I have always been asked this question. I have helped every player that has played under me to move onto the next level using basketball as a tool to get an education. You have…
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Over the past year, our experienced and dedicated staff of scouts have covered a lot of high school games within the state and abroad, and, as a result, we have released our NEW Arizona Preps Player Rankings for girls basketball in the state of Arizona. We have compiled our list of player rankings for each class of high school prospects in the state – 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 Classes. These player rankings will be released on each of our Arizona Preps’ social media outlets, and also sent out to hundreds of women college basketball programs across the country. We continue our…
Over the past year, our experienced and dedicated staff of scouts have covered a lot of high school games within the state and abroad, and, as a result, we have released our NEW Arizona Preps Player Rankings for girls basketball in the state of Arizona. We have compiled our list of player rankings for each class of high school prospects in the state – 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 Classes. These player rankings will be released on each of our Arizona Preps’ social media outlets, and also sent out to hundreds of women college basketball programs across the country. We…
Arizona Preps is proud to update our NEW Arizona Preps Super 25 Girls Power Rankings for Big Schools and Small Schools. Our staff will update these team rankings throughout the week, and release them each week, for the remainder of the high school season. These girl’s team rankings are one of their kind, as these are our staff’s Top 15 Power Rankings for Big Schools and our Top 10 Power Rankings for Small Schools (a total of 25 schools). Here are our Top 25 selections currently for girl’s high school basketball in the state of Arizona, for big schools and small schools -…
Arizona Preps is proud to release our NEW Arizona Preps Super 25 Girls Power Rankings for Big Schools and Small Schools. Our staff will update these team rankings throughout the week, and release them at the beginning of the week, for the remainder of the high school season. These girl’s team rankings are one of their kind, as these are our staff’s Top 15 Power Rankings for Big Schools and our Top 10 Power Rankings for Small Schools (a total of 25 schools). Here are our Top 25 selections currently for girl’s high school basketball in the state of Arizona,…
The Arizona Preps’ staff was on hand all-weekend long for the Iron Sharpens Iron Middle School Event, organized by The SHOW. Arizona Preps Middle School Director Paul Suber has worked very hard to thoroughly cover the state’s elite middle school talent – providing Arizona Preps’ social media outlets with amazing coverage of events and players each week. Suber and members of our staff attended the Iron Sharpens Iron Middle School Event this weekend on the campus of SAGU University, and compiled their All-Tournament Team from this weekend’s event. The group of players is absolutely loaded with many of the state’s…
The Arizona Preps’ staff attended and covered the Team Cezer Battle in the Desert basketball tournament this weekend @ Inspire Courts, as Arizona Preps’ scout and staff member Paul Suber featured many of the event’s top prospects on our Social Media outlets this weekend. The event was filled with many of the state’s and West’s top up-and-coming basketball prospects. Here is our Arizona Preps’ All-Tournament Team for the 8th Grade Super Pool Division (In order left to right) as seen by Coach Paul Suber over the weekend . . . Battle in the Desert All-Tournament Team 1) Kalek House -…
Scottsdale Community College is getting close to the start of the school year, and has a great group of Sophomores and Freshmen that you will want to get on early. SCC has been nationally ranked for two-straight years (top-10 in 2019/2020) and last year finished as the #1 seed in Region-I of the NJCAA Division-II. All (6) sophomores on their roster moved on to scholarship-level programs, including (3) NCAA Division-I programs, and this year’s group is more talented than last season. Here is a list of the up-coming recruitable (Qualifiers) prospects on the roster with basic information on them (No particular order), as provided…
The 11th Annual Southern California Senior Showcase will be held Sunday, March 22, 2020 at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm. It will be open to individual players and teams who are unsigned seniors in the class of 2020. This exposure event is designed to provide all players an opportunity to demonstrate their talents/skills in highly competitive games for the college coaches, scouts, and media expected to attend. A report on the event will be done by the Hoop Review scouting service that will be sent to college coaches and various internet sites. Cost is…
Coaches and players from across the state, welcome to the 21st Annual Arizona Preps Fall Showcase, where the road to championship begins! As a coach, it is important to learn about your team and what you can overcome when facing adversity. It is about not giving up and playing with heart, until the end and treating every game as a playoff elimination. Players this is a special opportunity to grow as a team and build towards your ultimate goals of being a leader on and off the court. You are role models to younger student-athletes. Even if you don’t think…