Here are the top boys basketball players in the Utah Valley area in 2025-26: Player of the Year: Dean Rueckert, 6-7 Sr. F, Timpview Rueckert is a Top 100 recruit according to 24-7 Sports (No. 77 most recently) and has excelled against some of the best talent in the country on the AAU ...
It's notable what Timpview coach Brad Kitchen leads off with when asked regarding Dean Rueckert's best attributes. He doesn't lead with what is widely apparent to most people, which would be his superior size and athletic combination which earned him consensus 4-star ratings from the top ...
MIDVALE — The Utah High School Activities Association (UHSAA) has announced the hiring of J. Ryan Bishop as its seventh Executive Director in the organization’s 99-year history. Bishop will officially begin his tenure on July 1, 2026. “The UHSAA has a strong history because of the people ...
From the moment she took the girls basketball head coaching job at Pleasant Grove last spring, Angela Villa brought a positive, empowering attitude to a program that hadn’t had much success. No one benefited from or embraced that new attitude more than Tabi Clark. Clark, a 6-foot-2 ...
Here are the top girls basketball players in the Utah Valley area in 2025-26: Player of the Year: Tabi Clark, Sr. F/G, Pleasant Grove Pleasant Grove was full of top players, but Tabi Clark rose above them all. The senior wing led the Vikings in scoring (16.2 points per game) and ...
Girls Wrestler of the Year: Tevia Rarick (Westlake, 190 pounds) Thunder sophomore had a perfect season going 43-0 with 43 pins. Girls Coach of the Year: TJ Brindley (Salem Hills) Salem Hills had a great year winning not only the 5A state title but also the prestigious Rockwell ...
Pinning to perfection is exactly what Westlake sophomore Tevia Rarick did in the 2025-26 season. She wrestled a total of 43 bouts and came away with 43 pins and easily won her second straight 6A title at 190 pounds. This perfection and dominance has led to a national ranking of No. 2 and her ...
It’s hard to miss Kaizen Detoles at any wrestling tournament he’s in with his eye-popping athleticism. The Westlake senior, who seems to make wrestling look easy, just won his second 6A state title for the Thunder going 27-2 in his 2025-26 campaign which he punctuated with a ...
2026 All-Valley Boys Wrestling Wrestler of the Year: Kaizen Detoles (Westlake, 175 pounds) Westlake senior won his second state title losing just twice on the year to out-of-state competition. Coach of the Year: Kip Spencer (Spanish Fork) Spencer led the Dons to their third top three finish ...
When Lone Peak was invited to the prestigious Best of the West Boys Volleyball Invitational in California, expectations from the organizers of the event were ... low. “I think it was important for a Utah team to go down there and play,” Knights head coach Cecil Read said. ...
