AZ volleyball teams fall short; Hamilton is 4th at Nike TOC
Corona del Sol High School didn’t come back from the Nike Tournament of Champions volleyball tournament last week with a championship trophy. But the Aztecs can say they beat … Read More
Corona del Sol High School didn’t come back from the Nike Tournament of Champions volleyball tournament last week with a championship trophy. But the Aztecs can say they beat … Read More
An expanded Nike Tournament of Champions rolled through the Valley just before Christmas, giving local high school girls’ basketball programs a chance to test their game against some of … Read More
Arizona high schools are still trying to return to the top of the Nike Tournament of Champions, the girls’ volleyball tournament generally regarded as the event to determine a … Read More
Arizona has been hosting the Nike Tournament of Champions for girls’ basketball since 2001 when Chandler High School and the Chandler School District took on the responsibility of … Read More
Xavier volleyball is back. And no team in the state’s top high school conference is more painfully aware of that than Corona del Sol High School, the 6A defending … Read More
When Chandler’s Seton Catholic High School jumped out to a 21-point lead in its opening game against St. Francis High School, the Sentinels looked every bit like a team … Read More
It looks like Arizona’s high school volleyball teams are going to have to wait another year to try to get back on top of the stack of the nation’s … Read More
High school teams generally have to find an out-of-state tournament during the season to get an idea of just where their programs stack up with others across the country. … Read More
If you follow women’s college basketball, you may recognize some familiar faces roaming the East Valley high school gymnasiums this weekend. It’s time again for the annual Nike Tournament … Read More
Arizona high schools picked up more than their share of titles from the prestigious Nike Tournament of Champions girls’ volleyball tourney over the weekend. But the big prize eluded … Read More
Call it the luck of the draw. Or, in the case of the Hamilton High School girls’ basketball team, the lack of luck. Hamilton has been playing in the … Read More
Xavier Prep was not among the field of 36 teams that played in the first Nike Tournament of Champions in Arizona. That was back in 2009 and, since then, the … Read More
There are probably as many high school sports tournaments as there are shopping trips to the mall during the holidays. Several of the bigger four-day events such as the … Read More
Xavier Prep and Horizon High School weren’t in the field for the Goldwater Volleyball Festival a couple of weeks ago, but showed up over the weekend to play in the … Read More
The Nike Tournament of Champions, which has been held in Chandler since 2001, provides the Arizona high school girls’ basketball teams a chance each year to test their progress against … Read More
Arizona’s high school volleyball teams represented the state well at the Nike Tournament of Champions over the weekend – but still struggled in the event’s showcase division of top teams. … Read More
How does a girls’ high school basketball team earn the right to be considered the best in the nation? It involves a lot of factors, but one thing needs to … Read More