2021 Class: Recruiting News/Updates, May 2019


Offers Reported on May 15

  • Alyssa Brown, 6-2 F, Sahuaro HS (Tucson, AZ): Elon
  • Raychael Harjo, 6-2 W, Moore HS (OK): Missouri State
  • Aaliyah Moore, 6-1 F, Moore HS (OK): Tennessee
  • Amelia Osgood, 5-9 G, Brentwood HS (TN): Indiana State
  • Mickayla Perdue, 5-5 PG, Springfield HS (OH): Hartford
  • Olivia Westphal, 5-10 W, Bethel Park HS (PA): Colgate
  • Jersey Wolfenbarger, 6-1 SG, Northside HS (Fort Smith, AR): Texas

Top-five 2021 prospect Saniya Rivers, a 6-0 guard, will be transferring from Laney HS to Ashley HS for her junior year. Both schools are located in Wilmington, NC.

Saniya Rivers, the Gatorade N.C. High School Girls Basketball Player of the Year, is transferring from Laney to Ashley for the upcoming school year. Rivers and her family were displaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence and have been living in Monkey Junction since the storm.

(5/15/2019)


Offers Reported on May 14

  • Kennedy Johnson, 6-0 F, Bishop O’Dowd HS (Oakland, CA): San José State
  • Kaitlyn Orihel, 5-9 SG, Archbishop Wood HS (Warminster, PA): Delaware
  • Kennedy Ransom, 6-0 F, Madison Central HS (MS): Jackson State
  • Allison Weidner, 5-9 G, St. Francis HS (Humphrey, NE): South Dakota (first offer)

Offers Reported on May 13

  • Courtney Blakely, 5-7 G, Bishop Noll Institute (Hammond, IN): Cincinnati
  • Hanna Knoll, 5-6 PG, Angola HS (IN): Illinois State
  • Ari Wiggins, 5-8 PG, Heritage Christian School (Indianapolis, IN): Dayton, Minnesota, Vanderbilt

Fourteen prospects from the 2021 recruiting class are among the thirty-three invitees to the May 23-27 trials for the 2019 USA Basketball Women’s U16 National Team.

Fourteen athletes are from the high school class of 2021, including: Taylor Bigby (Centennial H.S./Las Vegas, Nevada), Sonia Citron (The Ursuline School/Scarsdale, N.Y.), Amari DeBerry (Williamsville South H.S./Buffalo, N.Y.), Sania Feagin (Forest Park H.S./Ellenwood, Ga.), DeDe Hagemann (Detroit Edison Public School Academy/Mount Clemens, Mich.), Bree Hall (Wayne H.S./Dayton, Ohio), Jillian Hollinshead(Holy Innocents Episcopal School/Powder Springs, Ga.), Okikiola Iriafen (Harvard-Westlake School/Woodland Hills, Calif.), Jada Malone (The Village School/Spring, Texas), Olivia Miles (Blair Academy/Phillipsburg, N.J.), Aaliyah Moore (Moore H.S./Moore, Okla.), Saylor Poffenbarger (Middletown H.S./Middletown, Md.), Payton Verhulst (Bishop Miege H.S./De Soto, Kan.) and Aaronette Vonleh (West Linn H.S./West Linn, Ore.).

(5/13/2019)


Grace Larkins, 5-9 G, Southeast Polk HS (Pleasant Hill, IA): has offers from Drake, Eastern Illinois, and Northern Iowa, according to this feature. She also runs track but has decided to play basketball in college.

“I’ve pretty much decided that I want to go to college for basketball. And my track coach actually talked to me about this, he wanted to know what to do with the track stuff he gets in the mail about me, and if he should give them to me, or if I’d rather him not,” Larkins said. “My parents and I decided we’d rather have him just keep them, and we’ll focus on basketball for college.”

Larkins has already earned basketball scholarship offers from Drake, Northern Iowa and Eastern Illinois.

(5/6/2019)


Alexis Markowski, 6-2 F, Pius X HS (Lincoln, NE): committed to South Dakota State (Summit), their first 2021 commit.

There were basketball offers from South Dakota State, Colorado State and Omaha, as well as interest from Nebraska, Creighton, Iowa State and USC. Markowski also was receiving volleyball interest from multiple Division I schools, including Iowa State and Creighton.

Markowski said she went back and forth between the two until deciding on basketball and SDSU.

(5/5/2019)



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