Prep Hoops Girls - Top 6 -10 Area Teams Rankings...

Prep Girls Hoops California is taking a stab at ranking the Top Area Schools in SoCal with a Top 10 of our own. We have seen a lot of basketball during the CIFSS season last year and will extensively cover the CIFSS this year with our New Staff. We intend on bringing you the best there is to offer in Girls Basketball coverage that most have not seen in a while. If you like high level girls basketball and good play, you are in the right place to witness it. We will bring articles, stories, interviews and video to this media outlet like never before, so please stay tuned and enjoy our team rankings listed below.   #6 - ML King HS Coach Jesus Martinez: CIFSS Division 1 Runner-up (31-3) (10-0) Big VIII League Champion. They are led by 2020, 5'11, Nyah and Olivia Moran and 2020. 5'6, PG, Raya Smith. King is another program that can surprise you in a game, they are always tough defensive minded and always have a meriad of talented players. This year they are led by the crafty point guard in Raya Smith, who can break you down, can shoot the midrange and the three pointer, she can play people. Also highlighting things are the twins in Nyah and Olivia Moran, great size for them both and they are both lefty. which is unique in its own right. Both of these girls are players and are a threat to score from anywhere on the court. Expect some good things from them this year.   #7 - Rosary Academy HS Coach Richard Yoon: CIFSS Division 1 Regional & State Champions; (27-8) (3-1) Trinity League 2nd Place. They are led by 2020, 5'7, PG, Aisha Avinger (SDSU commit), 2020, 5'7, SG, Caylee Santos, 2020, 5'8, CG, Nicole Rodriguez (LMU commit) and 2022, 5'4, PG, Kaylee Byon. Rosary is always tough as nails, even if they do not have any size, they are dangerous, because everyone on the floor is a threat to score and all of them shoot the three ball. They will pressure you defensively and offensively during the game, they try to speed the game up to play to their strengths. SDSU commit Asia Avinger is the leader of the is group along with LMU commit Nicole Rodriguez, both are good with the handle and can score in a variety of ways. Kaylee Byon is the maverick young player who is spunky and always ready to represent for her team, she can score in many ways as well, watch out for her on the floor this season.   #8 - Chaminade Prep HS Coach Kelli Di Muro: CIFSS Division 1 Champions; (22-11) (7-1) Mission League Champions. They are led by 2020, 6'2, SF, Alexis Whitfield (UW Commit), 2020, 5'4, PG, Jasmine Rodriguez, 2023, 5'5, PG, Kayla Cabaccang and 2023, 5'9, F, Jazi Forbes. This team is unpredictable in a good way, they are proven champions in their division, but they are a team that has not played to their potential this year. I have seen them play about 3 times this off- season and they tend to be solid, but something is not quite right about the group yet. They are long in the post, they are quick and athletic on the perimeter, this is the strength that keeps them above their opponents. They are truly led by UW commit Alexis Whitfield and she is the total package in my opinion, she can handle it, she can put in on the floor and take you to the rim, she can shoot the midrange out to the three. She needs to stay healthy for them to repeat this year, that is the bottom line, nothing else.   #9 - Long Beach Poly HS Coach Carl Buggs: CIFSS Division 1 Regional & State Champions; (22-11) (12-0) Moore League Champions. They are led by 2020, 6'1, PF/C, Ashley Lewis, 2020, 5'6, CG, Iyanna Lamb, 2020, 5'7, SG, Kaci Scott and 2021, 5'9, Kalaya Buggs and 2021, SG, 5'10, Lily Buggs. LB Poly is always tough as nails, each and every year under Coach Carl Buggs, it just the way things go. They are fast, they are long, they are tough, they are fearless. Poly will beat you up inside with play form CSUFullerton commit Ashley Lewis and then press and rough you up with guard play from Iyanna Lamb, Kaci Scott, Kalaya Buggs and Lily Buggs. This team will be in the finals of some division, it is just what is expected of them.   #10 - Corona Centennial HS Coach Martin Woods: (21-9) (7-3) Big VIII League Runner Ups. They are led by 2021, 5'5, PG/CG, Jayda Curry and 2021, 5'9, SG, Trinity San Antonio as captains of this years team as well as 2020s, 5'10, SF, Monikque Lightfoot and 5'11, SF, Brook Svoboda. Also cannot forget 2021, 6'0, SF, Katherine Davis. This group is scrappy and hungry to beat a good team for namesake, this is their entire existence of being right now. Do they have the right pieces to put this run together this year without the presence of 2021, Jessica Peterson who transferred to Etiwanda HS. That is the question we need answered this season, is 2021, 5'5, PG, Jayda Curry and 2021, 5'9, SG, Trinity San Antonio enough to be the Top Dog in their league as well as the playoffs, it all remains to be seen, like the toughness though, exciting to watch...