Parker has yet to play her first high school basketball game, but as she finishes her 8th grade year, she’s already turning some heads on the AAU circuit.

When Parker is on the floor, she is in complete control of the paint. Offensively, she’s purely unstoppable when she gets the ball in her hands. She seems totally unbothered by contact, and fights to get shots up through contact. And on defense, she’s a rebounding machine. I saw a couple of games where she had to have at least 12 rebounds.

Parker is a confident player, and says she’s put in a lot of work with her footwork and movement in the post. And she’s honed her handles through playing goalie on the soccer pitch in middle school.

As just an 8th grader, Parker has already reached the 6’0″ mark, and she can compete well with girls who are older than her.

Parker is a natural when she’s in the paint. She plays with confidence on both offense and defense, and is such an imposing force that it’s a challenge for any player to get through her. And on offense, she’s nearly unstoppable when she gets the ball in her hands. She finished two of her games with 16 points, and I can’t fathom that she had fewer than 10 rebounds in every game she played.

Parker has great footwork in the lane, which is something she says she’s worked on in recent years. And she appears unbothered by contact-drawing plenty of and-1 opportunities. She also has great hands; a skill she says that she honed during her time as a soccer goalie in middle school.

Parker’s team took a pair of losses on Saturday, but she stilled played well enough to get noticed. Parker is yet another member of the class of 2030, who was brought up to play against older competition this weekend. And she held her own against some great post players.

Parker owns the paint when she’s on the floor. She’s unstoppable when she gets the ball in her hands. She’s a rebounding machine-she must have had at least 15 in her team’s loss to Midwest Magic . And she plays with such confidence in the lane (both on offense and defense) that it’s hard for anyone to compete with her.

Parker has terrific hands; a skill she attributes to playing goalie in soccer while she was in middle school. And she appears completely unbothered by defenders who hack at her shots when she’s on offense; resulting in a lot of free throw opportunities. She scored 17 points in her first game of the day, then another 10 in the night cap.