Still in middle of senior season, Jabari Parker’s high school jersey is...
Chicago (Ill.) Simeon High senior Jabari Parker is extremely talented at basketball. This is not news. He has been the top ranked recruit in the Class of 2013 for just about as long as anyone has...
View ArticleRay Lewis was a state champion prep wrestler, but one foe was even better
Ray Lewis enters the Super Bowl as one of the most celebrated defensive players in NFL history. He is a one-of-a-kind blend of explosive power and unrestrained emotion, dominant enough to occasionally...
View ArticleCalifornia schools to play first official game outdoors on Venice Beach courts
First it was the NHL’s Winter Classic, taking an indoor game back to its outdoor roots, generating good will and fan excitement in the process. In 2011 college basketball tried to duplicate the act and...
View ArticleIncredible full court swish from Indiana might be buzzer beater of the year
Looking for a great buzzer beater? Look no further, because this baseball style full-courter is one of the best Prep Rally has seen all year. As sent Prep Rally’s way by friends of the blog at iHigh,...
View ArticleTexas high school swimmer kept safe by one of the world’s cutest dogs
It’s scary enough for Ben Ownby’s parents to let their son leave the house without their guidance. Since he was 17 months old, Ownby has lived with Type 1 diabetes and has had to monitor it manually...
View ArticleScuffle between S.C. youth hoops parents leads to stabbing and arrest
Emotions at a youth basketball game in North Carolina veered dangerous over the edge when two fathers of players in a game engaged in a verbal altercation over their sons, eventually leading to a...
View ArticleN.Y. guard somehow hits game-winning buzzer beater from his knees
Of all the remarkable, hard-to-believe buzzer beating shots Prep Rally has seen this season, one from New York on Saturday night easily takes the cake. As reported by YNN Rochester and submitted to...
View ArticleGirls hoops superstar Tyra Buss scores 50 points in just three quarters in win
There may not be a Michael Jordan in any particular high school sport, but Tyra Buss has to be about as close as you can get. After scoring 51 points for her Mt. Carmel (Ill.) High squad in a narrow...
View Article9-year-old runner will attempt marathon in Antarctica for charity, will spend...
In November, Prep Rally brought you the story of the Welsch sisters, controversial young endurance running stars in Texas. At the tender ages of 10 and 12, Heather and Kaytlynn Welsch have run more...
View ArticleHow CCSE Prep’s Francis Ngissah duped one potential Division I basketball...
The fact that a pop-up prep basketball academy finds itself under the scope of an NCAA investigation shouldn't exactly be a shocker, but the tactics of one California prep school sure came as a...
View ArticleFormer Kazakhstani orphan finds home as one of Chicago’s best prep wrestlers
Plenty of folks who don't know Michael Shanahan hear his name announced before a wrestling match, watch the 5-foot-9, 138-pound high school junior defeat his opponent and wrongfully think to themselves...
View ArticleReuben Foster, top LB recruit with massive Auburn tattoo, re-commits to Alabama
Ladies and gentlemen, the inevitable has happened: 5-star linebacker Reuben Foster, a former Alabama-turned-Auburn commitment who cemented his pledge to the Tigers with an enormous forearm tattoo of...
View ArticleCalifornia hoopster hits three-quarter court, buzzer-beating hook shot
Anyone interested in a three-quarter court, buzzer-beating hook shot? Why not, right? The miracle triple you see in the video above, which was first brought to Prep Rally’s attention by USA Today, was...
View ArticlePhilly school bribes fans to come to games with free cheesesteaks, gets a...
A Philadelphia high school took a rather novel approach to attracting student fans to a Sunday Catholic League basketball game: It offered cheesesteaks to the first 50 attendees. The result? A packed...
View ArticleCali girl leaves hoops game at halftime, enters soccer match, stars for both...
Two-sport stars aren't all that uncommon in the world of prep sports. Starring in two sports on the same day? Now, that's a different story. Well on her way to a quadruple-double, Miramonte (Orinda,...
View ArticleAlabama football coach under fire for racist, homophobic rant in classroom
An Alabama high school football coach has been suspended for 10 days after delivering what can only be described as a racist and homophobic rant in a classroom, all of which was caught in an audio...
View ArticleOne of the world’s top models turns down riches to play college football
Myles Crosby is a male model. If you haven’t seen him yet, the odds were that you would very soon. The 18-year-old has modeled for Calvin Klein and is allegedly “ranked” as the 11th best male model in...
View ArticlePenny Hardaway is coaching middle school hoops and was involved in a 200-man,...
Remember Penny Hardaway? Sure you do! The erstwhile Orlando Magic superstar turned Phoenix Suns and New York Knicks afterthought is now back in the city where he played his college ball: Memphis. In...
View ArticleSchool Spirit Week tug-of-war match goes terribly wrong
I haven't played tug-of-war in a while, but I'm pretty sure you're supposed to have all your fingers at the end. Sadly, that's not the case in one game at a California high school. Two South El Monte...
View ArticleNewtown High wins Senior Night game with buzzer-beater
A lot of bad things have happened to the good people of Newtown, Conn. in the past two months. On Tuesday, a more heartwarming event happened in town: The Newtown High boys basketball team drilled a...
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