Tribe Athletics is the leader in grassroots basketball for Native American-Indigenous Basketball. Directors Jon Yarrow Jr. and Cameron Smith do an excellent job in gathering the best talent to compete in their Exposure Series. Arizona Preps is grateful to be partnered with the biggest and best Native American Exposure Series in the World. Recently, our Arizona Preps’ staff traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, to cover the Tribe Athletics Native American Jr. Nationals. In the Girl’s Divisions, there were a lot of talented student-athletes. Our staff was pleased to uncover and discover some of the top prospects in the Native American…
Author: George Courtney
Tribe Athletics and Tribal Nations Recruiting continue to lead the nation by bringing the biggest and best exposure series for Indigenous student-athletes. This year’s event has drawn in over (152) boys and girls teams in multiple age brackets (middle school-high school). Director Jon Yarrow Jr. and co-director Cameron Smith continue to work hard to provide a platform and opportunity for Indigenous student-athletes to be discovered and recruited by college coaches and scouts. This year’s event takes place in Las Vegas, NV at multiple facilities, to accommodate the amount of teams competing. Teams traveled from near and far to represent their…
The Arizona Preps’ staff continues to bring great dead-period events for student-athletes to be discovered. We were pleased to have (22) teams participating at both sites (Canyon View Prep Academy & Mayer High School) in last weekend’s Arizona Preps Beat The Heat event in Northern Arizona. This event brought in teams from the Phoenix, Tucson and western and northern areas of Arizona. We are pleased to evaluate Arizona’s best prospects from the entire state. This event was a lot of fun to put together, because we were able to get a lot of teams from rural areas. Don’t write-off teams…
The Arizona Preps’ staff created one of the state’s best dead-period summer girls basketball tournaments this weekend. The inaugural Summer Clash Tournament tipped off on June 4th and concluded on June 5th. There were (8) teams in the tournament field, which included Salpointe Catholic, Sunnyside, Gilbert, Desert Vista, Cibola, Poston Butte, Scottsdale Christian and Dobson High School. It was a great atmosphere as Arizona Preps provided a great opportunity for these young ladies to gain valuable exposure to assist with college recruitment. The event provided a free live-stream on the Arizona Preps YouTube Channel, media coverage, college basketball scouts and…
There is a buzz in the basketball community and people are wondering what the Arizona Preps Exposure Circuit is? Arizona Preps has been committed to creating opportunities for student-athletes to gain valuable exposure to future educational opportunities. The staff has put their minds together to create the Arizona Preps Exposure Circuit. The Circuit is broken down by season (Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer) and it is a combination of events that we or our partners are hosting. We will be providing extensive media coverage which includes photos, video, live-streaming, interviews, player evaluations, social media posts and articles. The 2021 Fall…
Hillcrest Prep was founded in 2012 and was one of the first initial prep basketball programs on the West Coast. Hillcrest has produced multiple high level prospects who have gone on to play at high-major Division-I college programs and in the NBA. As of late, Mike Foster was named a McDonald’s All-American and committed to play in the NBA’s G-League. It is not new territory for Hillcrest Prep, as other alumni had gone on to have illustrious careers, such as DeAndre Ayton of the Phoenix Suns (pictured left), Marvin Bagley of the Sacramento Kings (pictured right) and Josh Green of…
Arizona Basketball Events Director Michael Martinez organizes some of the top events with a large collection of talent in the Southern Arizona Area. Martinez organized a strong individual showcase at La Paloma Lakeside with some of the best talent in Southern Arizona. The prospects from the classes 2027, 2026 and 2025 participated in three games where the Arizona Preps’ staff was able to scout and evaluate the upcoming talent. I had the pleasure of knowing Coach Michael Martinez for nearly a decade, as we are colleagues. My old club teams have participated in his tournament events, and we coached against…
The Copper State’s basketball talent is on the rise for both boys and girls. Unfortunately, there are limited platforms to showcase the state’s best female student-athletes. Arizona Preps and MoBallin have come together to bring you The Showdown. The Showdown is an Invite-Only All-Star Game to match up the top talent between players from the AIA and Prep Schools. The idea started at a dinner where Arizona Preps’ Marketing Director Mason Maynard and myself sat down with Monique Bribiescas of MoBallin Training. The purpose of the meeting was to figure out new avenues to provide equal opportunity for Arizona’s best…
Basketball is a religion and way of life for many indigenous people across the United States. There are numerous fantastic athletes of Native-American and/or Indigenous heritage. Tribe Athletics and Tribal Nations Recruiting is the top exposure series for Indigenous student-athletes in the United States. Director Jon Yarrow Jr. and Co-Director Cameron Smith have done a great job with putting together the largest Indigenous tournament at the end of June, titled the Native American Vegas Junior Nationals in Las Vegas, Nevada. The tournament is the largest in the United States – drawing in (148) boys and girls teams from multiple age…
The 1st Annual Arizona Preps Summer Clash Tournament presented by ArizonaPreps.com will be held on June 4-5, 2021 at Skyline Prep High School in Phoenix, AZ. This is an Invite-Only Tournament for the first (8) teams to sign up. We are offering a 4-game guarantee, team trophies for 1st and 2nd place, media coverage, player evaluations and live streaming. We are asking for a $350 team entry – due no later than Friday, May 28, 2021. Please let me know if you would like to participate, we only have (8) spots available. Champion of this summer’s tournament gets a free entry…