The Connecticut nominees to the All-American boys and girls basketball teams have been announced. …No big surprise, many of the boys are from prep school teams like Hotchkiss, Kent, Suffield, etc. Nobody really regional on the boys nominations that I’m aware of, except Luke Matarazzo from Shelton.
From the release: Thirty-four Connecticut high school basketball players have been nominated for the 2010 McDonald’s All American Boys and Girls Basketball Teams. As nominees, they will be considered for one of the 48 available positions on the two teams which will compete in March. The following Connecticut high school basketball players were nominated:
Boys’ 2010 Nominees
- Rashad Moore (Bloomfield High School, Bloomfield)
- Jamel Fields (Cheshire Academy, Cheshire)
- Luke Matarazzo (Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford)
- Isiaih Salafia (Cromwell High School, Cromwell)
- Jakarri McCallop (East Hartford High School)
- Tavon Allen (Hillhouse High School, New Haven)
- Jengodgi Gates (Hillhouse High School, New Haven)
- Monty Brown (Hotchkiss School, Lakeville)
- Jason Morris (Hotchkiss School, Lakeville)
- Theodore Boyomo (Ken School, Kent)
- Steven Glowiak (New Britain High School, New Britain)
- Julian Harris (Northwest Catholic High School, West Hartford)
- Josh Turner (Sacred Heart High School, Waterbury)
- Phil Gaetano (Sheehan High School, Wallingford)
- Bryon Allen (St. Thomas More Prep School, Oakdale)
- Andrew Douby (St. Thomas More Prep School, Oakdale)
- Allen Harris (Suffield Academy)
- Xavier Pollard (Suffield Academy)
- Nate Vernon (Suffield Academy)
- Tyrus Weaver (Windsor High School, Windsor)
Girls’ 2010 Nominees
- Courtney Schissler (Branford High School, Branford)
- Kerry Wallack (Daniel Hand High School, Madison)
- Kelly Sundberg (EO Smith High School, Storrs)
- Lauren Okafor (Hopkins School, New Haven)
- Casey Dulin (Johnathan Law High School, Milford)
- Uju Nwankwo (Northwest Catholic High School, West Hartford)
- Kastine Evans (Norwich Free Academy, West Hartford)
- Kaylantra Langley (Our Lady of Mercy Laurelton Hall, Milford)
- Katie Cizynski (Pomperaug High School, Southbury)
- Casey Dean (Pomperaug High School, Southbury)
- Nicole Welton (Pomperaug High School, Southbury)
- Abigail Corning (Wethersfield High School, Wethersfield)
- Shaniqua Fuller (Wilbur Cross High School, New Haven)
- Kristian Parker (Wilby High School, Waterbury)
From the release: Of the 2,000 boys and girls nominated, 48 principal players (24 boys and 24 girls) will be chosen for each team and will be announced in mid-to-late February at a selection show. These players will compete in the tip-off of the McDonald’s All American Games on March 31 at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio. The girls game (on ESPNU) will be at 5:30; the boys game (on ESPN) will be at 8. For a complete listing of McDonald’s All American nominees, visit www.mcdonaldsallamerican.com.
How is Brandon Sherrod not on that list?
I had the same question. Does anyone know of a good source to compare stats? Stratford…along with what seems like most schools…doesn’t seem to post stats to Max Preps/CIAC.
its crazy how dominique langston and chris evans are on this list and josh turner is the best player out of yall people on the list right now
SPB……….I agree…….How come Brandon is not on this list? He is one of the best big man player is the State……..
SPB………I can’t believe that Lauralton Hall fired Coach Steve Schuler? Here is a coach who’s having a great season(13-1) going into tonight’s game and they give him his walking papers this morning. It just show’s in a private school (money talks). You have a few parents who complained that there kid was not playing that much, and the coach gets fired. It had to be more then one parent that complained. In high school schools, public or private schools, you want to win. Just because a parents kid is not getting much playing time (and they are paying 16k a year) they fired Coach Schuler. He has done an outstanding job at LH. Why could AD. N. Camara wait until after the season is over??? I can imagine who the parents were??? I seen it happen in another private school. It start with one parent and the parent got more parent’s involved and the coach was gone. Just because the player was not getting enough playing time. Maybe, the player is not that good and that’s why she is not playing that much???? There is no question, that there were more then one parent complaining……..Money talks in these private schools….Like Coach Schuler said, what coach would resign, with the best player in the State(K. Langley) and a 13-1 record. It’s sad that he will not be able to get his 100th win at LH….something he worked very hard for. Shame on you LH, I thought you took better pride in your school and the way you handle the way you run your school……
a shame what happened to the LH coach. any insight on this SPB?
I think you are missing names on your list, there are 27 boys and 17 girls!
We have the whole list by state and you are missing
Mark Ellis- Stamford, Evan Kelly Norwalk, Gregory Langston St. Joseph, Danny Lawhorn – South Kent, J.J. Moore – South Kent, Brandon herrod – Stratford.
Girls missing are Briana Brown – King Low, Abigail Corning – Wethersfield and Brittany Martelle – Brookfield.
Why did you leave the above Kids of your list? if you listing for CT then you should have all the names on your list!! whats going on?
why don’t you people like to give the kids the recongnition after working so hard for it?
This is the list given to us by the McDonald’s people.
I think you are missing names on your list, there are 27 boys and 17 girls!
Comment by Ann — February 5th, 2010 @ 11:37 am
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Actually, 20 boys & 14 girls if I counted right…Anyway, did you notice that at least 1/2 of the boys team is made up of private school kids?…I didn’t check the girl’s list, sorry…
When I checked out the MaxPreps website yesterday looking for D-1 Football recruits who had committed (signed) from CT, there were 12 of them….9 of the 12 kids were from (expensive) private schools, the other 3 from public high schools…
My question is, Why?…Are they truly better athletes at their sport & position?…Or, are the D-1 colleges making sure that their signed recruits are going to be academically OK?…With them feeling that the private school kids will be able to make the grades to be eligible to play?…I’m just wondering, and throwing it out there for discussion, although I know this thread is pretty much spent…
Ann,
Take a chill pill. The guy posts what he gets from McD’s. I highly doubt he is trying to take away recognition from a high school student.
Get off your high horse and calm down! Unreal.
Why wasnt jamaal gary on this one of the best small forwards in CT high school basketball