Prep & College Recruiting

 Josh Fuller, a 6-foot-7 Gatorade Player of the Year from Idaho, has committed to joining the Utah men's basketball program next season. Fuller averaged 17 points and eight rebounds last year for Madison H.S. in Rexburg, Idaho.

 Fuller is coming to Utah on an academic scholarship, according to his mother, Amber.

 "He's excited, with an exclamation point, exclamation point," she said. "He got the offer in July and we said this was all new to us and he wanted to look at other offers, but Utah is where he felt best."

 Fuller will be the fifth player in the class, joining others who signed letters of intent last week.

The Utah women's basketball team has announced its signees, among them is a last name that should be very familiar to those who know the history of the program.

BYU’s men’s volleyball program has signed a pair of outside hitters to national letters of intent.
Here’s the release from BYU:

BYU men’s volleyball head coach Shawn Patchell announced that outside hitters Taylor Sander and Josue Rivera have committed to play for the Cougars by signing national letters of intent.

“We’re really excited to sign these players during the early signing period,” said Patchell. “This could possibly be the best recruiting class we’ve ever had here at BYU. We’ll just have to wait and see how they perform on the court and in the classroom.”

Sander, a native of Norco, Calif., was the captain of the USA Youth National Team that competed for a world championship this summer in Italy. He helped lead his Norco High School team to victory in the 2009 CIF Division 3 title match, earning himself school and league MVP distinction. Averaging more than 20 kills in the postseason, he was key in Norco’s success. Sander has received numerous first-team all-league, all-county and all-region honors.

A team captain of the Puerto Rico Youth National Team, Rivera helped lead his team to a bronze medal at the NORCECA Men’s Continental Championship in October. He will come to BYU from Puerto Rico’s Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola.

The early signing period ends tomorrow.

We’ve mentioned in previous posts how Bingham’s Tori Almond and Olympus’ Carly Duckworth have signed to play softball for BYU and how Bingham’s Chalese Fankhauser and Alta’s Cheyella Meyers have signed with Utah.
All four are members of the Utah Flames summer league softball team; Meyer is transferring to Tooele High.
Two other members of the Flames have signed national letters of intent.
Taylorsville’s Sami Parry has signed with Southern Utah and Tooele’s Mattie Snow has signed with Dixie State.
Parry is an outfielder and a strong hitter; Snow is a pitcher and infielder.

Utah’s softball program has announced the signing of five players to national letters of intent, including three from the state of Utah.
Joining the team beginning in the 2010-11 season are Naomi Amu, Taylor Austin, Chalese Fankhauser, Tara Glover and Cheyella Myers.
Austin was a second-team all-stater at Bountiful High as a junior and plays infield. She played for the Utah Sting summer league program.
Fankhauser is a catcher at Bingham High who plays for the Salt Lake Flames summer league program. She was a first-team all-state selection as a junior.
Myers is an infielder at Alta High who also played for the Salt Lake Flames. She is from Taylorsville.
Amu is a pitcher and first baseman from Oceanside, Calif.
Glover is an outfielder from Grants Pass, Ore.