2025 Watch List: Ball Handlers
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The new 2025 Watch List has been posted! Here are some ball handlers that you should keep an eye on as they begin their high school careers. Sanai Cole Sanai Cole 5'7" | PG Millbrook | Oak City Prep |…
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Continue ReadingThe new 2025 Watch List has been posted! Here are some ball handlers that you should keep an eye on as they begin their high school careers.
Sanai Cole Sanai Cole 5'7" | PG Millbrook | Oak City Prep | 2025 State NC | Millbrook | PG
Cole has already been making splashes even in middle school. She is a dynamic ball handler who knows how to get to the basket, and she finds open teammates for them to score as well. She does a great job penetrating the defense to create opportunities for herself or others. Her aggressive defense usually turns into offense with her ability to push it up the court, and she does a great job showing off floaters or making jump stops to put up a shot.
Jasmine Nivar Jasmine Nivar 5'6" | SG Apex Friendship | 2025 State NC | Apex Friendship | SG
Nivar plays on both ends of the court turning defense into offense. She seems to repetitively pick the pockets of her opponents taking the ball the other direction scoring in transition with ease. She is an excellent ball handler using moves to get by her opponents and speed to blow by them if she wants. Even when she isn’t handling the ball, she knows how to find the gaps on defense making effective cuts to score some points.
Kayl Starnes Kayl Starnes 5'0" | PG Forest Hills | 2025 NC | Forest Hills | PG
Starnes is a ball handler who has some speed on her allowing her to push the ball up the court with ease. She finds her open teammates cutting for the basket, or she can take it all the way herself. When running set plays, she shows patience letting the play develop, and she can certainly show off her shot from downtown to get some more points. On defense, she is quick to slide into passing lanes, and she hustles back on defense making sure opponents do not score easily in transition.
Allie Sykes Allie Sykes 5'2" | CG Western Alamance | 2025 State NC | Western Alamance | CG
Sykes (pictured above) may be a guard, but she shows no fear battling inside for some rebounds. She is a floor general knowing how to control the tempo of the game, and she can certainly show off her shot from anywhere on the court. She has a way of getting by her opponents with ease getting to the basket to score some points, too. She is a tenacious defender grabbing steals that she pushes up the court in order to score on fast breaks.