Prep & College Recruiting

Utah State women’s basketball coach Raegan Pebley has signed three high school players to national letters of intent, including two guards and a post player.
Signing recently with the Aggies were guard Kamie Imai, guard Jennifer Schlott and post player Stephanie Larson.
Schlott is a 5-6 guard from Mesa, Ariz., and enters her senior season as a three-year starter at Mountain View High School.
Larson is a 6-3 post player from Tustin, Calif. and Foothills High School. She helped her team go 30-2 last season.
Imai is a 5-9 guard from Pahoa, Hawaii. Last season at Waiakea High School, she averaged 10.9 points per game.

Who will be the best girls basketball player in the state this season?
According to ESPN’s Rise Web site, Layton Christian’s Jasmine Porter is Utah’s best player. The senior signed earlier this month to play college basketball for San Diego State.
Here’s a link to the site that lists the best player in every state.

The early signing period for basketball (and several other sports) came and went earlier this week, and BYU’s basketball program still has one available scholarship to pass out.
The Cougars signed Provo guard Kyle Collinsworth and Anson Winder, a guard from Bishop Gorman High in Las Vegas.
It appears that the Cougars will play out this season, assess what needs they have, and sign a player in April -- probably a junior college transfer.
One candidate is Stephen Rogers, a 6-foot-8 redshirt freshman at Mesa Community College in Arizona. Rogers is averaging 20 points and seven rebounds a game for MCC so far this season.
After graduating from Mountain View High in Mesa in 2006, Rogers signed with the University of San Diego. But USD’s coach was fired while Rogers was on an LDS Church mission, and when he returned the new staff did not take him back.
So Rogers signed with Arizona State, and sat on the Sun Devils’ bench last year, redshirting. Now he’s at Mesa Community College, and flourishing.
He told ArizonaPreps.com that he is receiving interest from BYU, Boise State, Eastern Washington and Northern Arizona.
Southern Utah, Utah Valley State, Utah State and Fresno State have also kept tabs on him.
BYU has not offered Rogers, but is aware of him, according to someone who would know.

Southern Utah University has announced it has signed three basketball players to national letters of intent, including a former Alta High star who is currently on an LDS Church mission and a player from Idaho who has transferred to Alta.
Coach Roger Reid’s Thunderbirds have signed former Alta star Tyson Koehler, Mountain Crest center Cal Hanks and Kyle Davis, a senior at Centennial High in Boise, Idaho.
Koehler, a 6-9 sophomore, played at Grayson County College in Texas for a season after graduating from Alta, and is currently on a mission in North Carolina.
The T-birds signed him in 2008, but  had to re-sign him, due to NCAA rules. He averaged 9.6 points and 6.4 rebounds a game at Grayson, and was a first-team all-conference honoree.
Hanks is a 6-11 senior at Mountain Crest in the Cache Valley and was an all-region performer last season. He averaged 7.2 points, 9.2 rebounds and three blocks per game as a junior.
The Intermountain Hoops Scouting Service calls Hanks the top 2010 post prospect in Utah for this coming prep season.
Davis is a 6-7 senior who averaged 14 points and 10 rebounds for Centennial as a junior. He has moved to Utah, however, and will play for Alta this winter.

Bingham High’s Rachel Gines, a 6-foot-1 power forward, has signed to play college basketball for Dixie State College.
Gines was a second-team all-stater last year as a junior and also drew interest from Utah Valley University, Portland State, Idaho State and Southern Utah.
She plays for the Utah Flight summer league team and is also an excellent volleyball player.