Freshmen girls have found their way onto the Stockdale girls varsity before, but never this many, never this successfully.
Stockdale freshmen, from left, Melissa Sweat, Jalei Kinder, Marissa Bruce and Lavera Robertson have the Mustangs ranked No. 1 in the Central Section. Meet a quartet of first year players that were hitting the hardwood for different junior highs just 12 months ago.
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* A terrific defender, totaled 138 steals for an eye-opening average of 6 per game
Forward
Katie Avila, Tehachapi, Sr.
* SSL co-MVP
* Averaged 16.6 points and 10.2 rebounds
* Signed to play at Cal State Fullerton next season
* Three-time first team All-Area selection
Center
Cheyenne Wallace, Stockdale, Sr.
* Averaged 7.7 rebounds, 6.9 points and 3.3 steals a game
* First team all-SWYL
* A veteran on a young team, Wallace's presence on the court anchored Stockdale's pressure defense
Second Team
Nikki Villalobos, Centennial, C
Honorable Mention
Bakersfield Christian: Alex Berkshire
Centennial: Jasmine Noldon
Chavez: Joanne Torres
Yosemite High senior shooting guard Katie Menton is The Fresno Bee's Girls basketball Player of the Year.
Fresno Bee's 2007 Girls Basketball All-Stars
Yosemite's Menton took on all challenges and challengers in a quest for success.
By Andy Boogaard / The Fresno Bee
03/28/07 04:20:12
Her Yosemite High basketball career now flush with perfection -- four varsity seasons, four Central Section Division III championships -- Katie Menton, the tough mountain girl, can finally relax and reflect. She's asked to explain the success of a school-record career that closes as The Bee's repeat Player of the Year. Her answers link courage, commitment and crisis. "I was always a tomboy," she says with the most appropriate of all starting points.
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Katelyn Gilliam-First Team
GUARD, SANGER
Grade: Senior
Height: 5-8
She's qualified because: The three-time All-County/Metro Athletic Conference choice and straight-A student leaves Sanger ranked first in career games (118), third in steals (285) and fourth in scoring (1,073 points) and rebounds (680). This season, she averaged 13.6 points, 6.7 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 3.7 steals, and was the team's key press-breaker as the Apaches went 25-8 and reached the section D-II finals.
The word: "She started as a post player and developed into one of the best guards in the section. She rebounded and brought the ball up court. She started the offense and often ended it with an assist or a basket. Her work ethic is simply the best I have ever seen by a high school athlete." -- Apaches coach Steve Case
Courtney Collishaw-First Team
FORWARD, REDWOOD
Grade: Senior
Height: 5-10
She's qualified because: The four-year starter, two-time West Yosemite League Player of the Year and repeat Bee All-Star will pack with her to UC-Santa Barbara a basketball scholarship, 1,014 rebounds and 1,960 career points -- the 17th-leading total in section history. She also helped lead the Rangers to the section's D-III volleyball title.
The word: "As a freshman, you could really see her talent, but also that she had the work ethic to go to the next level. She was smart, ran the team efficiently and was tough for teams to match up with because she could post up guards and go right by the big girls." -- Rangers coach Louie Perez
Abby Bloetscher, Jr., Center, Exeter -Second Team
Fastbreak: The Central Sequoia League Most Valuable Player and repeat Bee All-Star second-teamer averaged 17.4 points and 13.5 rebounds and delivered 26 consecutive double-doubles for the D-IV runner-up.
Simply the Best
By Damian Marquez
Her numbers may have been down a bit compared to last season, but the 17.0 points and 9.2 rebounds per game Redwood's Courtney Collishaw averaged were hard-earned. For the second straight season, Collishaw is our hands-down selection for the Times-Delta/Advance-Register Tulare County girls basketball player of the year.
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Tribune's Basketball Player of the Year: Hannah DonagheStanford coach challenged star guard to become a better 3-point shooter
By Joshua D. Scroggin,
jscroggin@thetribunenews.comOver a plate of vegetarian lasagna this past fall, Tara VanDerveer laid down the challenge. The legendary Stanford women’s basketball coach was in the home of her latest recruit, Atascadero High senior Hannah Donaghe, and VanDerveer, the non-meat eater of the group, said she needed...
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Yosemite's Patricia O'Neill, left, get some on-court encouragement from Badgers standout Katie Menton. Menton, a senior, finished with 22 points and eight rebounds while O'Neill had 14 points and six rebounds. Read more-
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Cheyenne Wallace battles with a Clovis West player in the divisional championship game.
Sanger's Katelyn Gilliam, left, and Claire Tirapelle defend Edison's Whitney Blackmon during their
game in early February. Edison won that night, 54-43, and the top two seeds in Division II will square off for the section championship at 6 p.m. tonight.
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Katie, Britt and Cheyenne accept their certificates for their nominations to the McDonald's All-American Team.
Marissa Nelson drives for El Diamante High School.
Courtney at her senior nite with her parents and Coach French, UCSB
Britt breaks the "Assist" record--
Centennial's Britt Peters, left, hugs her coach, Wayne Cherry, after he presented her the game ball Wednesday for breaking the Central Section record for assists.
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MaxPreps.com--Katie M., Hannah and Britt are in the Top 100 scorers in California:
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Atascadero senior guard Hannah Donaghe stands with coach Paul Hill while holding her certificate for being nominated for the McDonald's All American girls basketball team on Tuesday after being presented with the nomination by Amy Huffman with McDonald's of Atascadero.
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Yosemite's Katie Menton, The Bee's Player of the Year last season, surpassed 2,000 career points in the Badgers' victory at St. Francis-Sacramento on Saturday. She's now at 2,033 points.
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Lady Warrior Katie Avila scored 21 points and logged 15 rebounds Friday as Tehachapi defeated Arvin, 52-43, at home. Pictured here, Avila's basket put the Lady Warriors up by two, 36-34, with two minutes remaining in the third quarter.
Read more!! Exeter's Abby Bloetscher dribbles past Selma's Naomi Gutierrez during Friday's game. Read more!!
Redwood's Courtney Collishaw goes up for a basket over Hanford's Courtney Rose during their West Yosemite League girls basketball game on Friday in Hanford.
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Maxpreps.com Player Pages:
JoAnn TorresCourtney Collishaw
Britt Peters, Nicole Villalobos and Jasmine Nolden
Abby BloetscherKatelyn GilliamKatie Menton
Hannah Donaghe
Marissa Nelson and Libby FalatCheyenne Wallace
Caty HuntingtonAlex Angangan
Katie Avila and Jana Smith
Ashlee TairaAlex Berkshire
Brooke Sampson
Hoopgurlz Prospect Watch-Signing Ceremonies I
Hoopgurlz Prospect Watch-Signing Ceremonies II
PrepCA.com: Player Spotlight-Caty HuntingtonHoopgurlz-Fall Prospect Watch--Caty Huntington
Katie M. will attend Pepperdine--
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Britt and Katie A. will attend Cal State Fullerton--
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Courtney will attend UCSB--
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Cheyenne will attend Concordia--
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Hannah will attend Stanford--
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PrepCA.com names Elite 15 for Class of 2007Hoopgurlz Top 50-Class of 2007Hoopgurlz Top 100-Class of 2007
Hoopgurlz Prospect Watch--CourtneyAnother quick mention for Cencal Elite on the Hoopgurlz site!! Best of Summer Part I--Click Here!
Congratulations to Cencal 17 on a successful Viewing Season with a record of 26-9 and the Championship of the Nike Battle at the Beach!!
Best of Summer Part II--Click Here for Hoopgurlz Series!!
Best of Summer Part III-Click here for the final story of the series on Hoopgurlz!!
Also, congrats are in order for Cencal 15 who won the Championship Game of their bracket as well!! They went 28-9 through the summer viewing season. What a great weekend for Cencal Basketball!!
Hoopgurlz story: Hannah chooses Stanford
Bootleg.com Story: No Hesitation for HannahRead Hoopgurlz article on CenCal Elite 
Get listed in HoopGurlz Prospect Database!! Click on the link and follow the directions to send in your information. You can be listed on their database, which is accessible to college coaches. Katelyn, Courtney, Hannah, Caty and Abby are already listed--so let's add more Cencal Power!!! The database includes graduation classes through 2009--so its never too early to start.
Hannah's Page Katelyn's Page Courtney's Page Caty's Page Abby's Page Britt's Page 
Hoop Gurlz Prospect Watch:
Courtney Collishaw
Hoop Gurlz Prospect Watch:
Katelyn Gilliam
Hoop Gurlz Prospect Watch:
Hannah Donaghe
Congratulations to Katie Menton-All State-Div. 3, Courtney Collishaw, Hannah Donaghe, Britt Peters-All State Juniors-2nd Team and former player Ashlee Stewart-All State-Div. 1--Complete All-State Lists from CalHi Sports are posted on our message board.
Class of 2007 recruits on HoopGurlz.com Class of 2008 recruits on HoopGurlz.com
2006 Girls Basketball All-Stars
Yosemite fell short in its bid for a state title, but the efforts of Menton, Stearns and Blate are worth applauding.
By Lamar Lopez / The Fresno Bee
Katie Menton and Ashley Stearns — two of the main reasons Yosemite High girls basketball has gone from also-ran to state contender in three seasons — met while playing in a Yosemite youth soccer all-star game.
Fresno Bee 
Congrats to 2006 Fresno Bee All-Stars-Katie Menton, Courtney Collishaw and Abby Bloetscher.
Fresno Bee Kern County All Area Team-click on "Handouts"
Kern County All League/All CIF-CS Teams-click on "Handouts"
All CIF-SS Teams-click on "Handouts"
All-State Lists from CalHi Sports are on our message board!!
CalHi Sports.com We now have 7 players from the 17U Team currently nominated for All-State!!
CalHi Sports All-State Nominations Congrats to Katie Avila, Courtney Collishaw, Hannah Donaghe, Katelyn Gilliam, Caty Huntington, Katie Menton and Britt Peters!!
Not a moment to spare
BY STEPHANIE TAVARES, Californian staff writer
e-mail: stavares@bakersfield.com | Saturday, Mar 11 2006 10:35 PM
Caty Huntington, a sophomore at Liberty High, is a three-sport athlete, two of them at the varsity level. When she's not at her own practices and games, she's at Haley's, usually shooting hoops or practicing her dribbling on the side of the court. She's a determined and aggressive competitor with a game stare that could cut glass.
Bakersfield Califorian
Tulare County Girls Basketball Player of the Year: Redwood's Collishaw does it all
By Zeke Gonzales
Staff writer
When it came time to decide who was the Tulare County girls basketball Player of the Year, there was no discussion.
Hands down, the best player in the county was Courtney Collishaw of Redwood. The junior led a talented but inexperienced team to the Division 2 Valley title game, where Redwood beat Lemoore but had the title stripped for a rules infraction.
Tulare Advance Register 
Athlete of the Week Atascadero girls basketball player Hannah Donaghe
Tristan Aird The Tribune
Atascadero High basketball player
Hannah Donaghe led the PAC 5 in points per game as a sophomore last year but was not satisfied with one aspect of her game.
Through a series of AAU camps and summer leagues last summer, Donaghe began focusing on rebounding.
"It's something that I've worked on because I'm not that big," she said. "I'm getting better at being more physical."
SLO Tribune 
Abby is mentioned on the Hoopgurlz site with her new team EBX. 
eld Californian's 2007 All-Area basketball selections
