Cara Consuegra and her staff have been busy this summer on the Classes of 2027, 2028, 2029, AND 2030.
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You can see from the picture there that Paityn London is a 5’9” point guard in the Class of 2027. She attends Freeport High School in Freeport, Illinois, which is about halfway between Rockford and the Iowa state line. Prep Girls Hoops has her as the #2 prospect in Illinois for her recruiting class, two spots in front of Lily Fisher, who we’ll get to in a moment.
The local news did a feature on London since she changed high schools in between freshman and sophomore year, more because the Catholic school she was attending was eliminating their high school than anything else. She averaged 20 points, seven rebounds, four assists, and four steals per game in her first year of HS competition, and then just kept on chugging at her new public school in town. Max Preps has her at 24.8 points, 9.3 rebounds, 5.4 assists, and 6.1 steals per game as a sophomore, so that’s pretty good. Her career 31% shooting percentage behind the three-point line? Needs work, but she’s just starting junior year so it’s not that big of a deal at the moment.
By the way? If you click through her Twitter profile? That Freeport Pretzels banner at the top? Not advertising for a favorite snack. That’s actually the high school team nickname.
The Prep Girls Hoops page for Melina Snoozy lists her as a 5’11” combo guard/shooting guard. Yeah, look: If you have to say “CG/SG,” you’re not a combo guard. Anyway, she attends Bishop Heelan High School in Sioux City, Iowa, which is right on the state line intersection between Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. That explains why she plays for a club team out of Sioux Falls, South Dakota and lists SD as her location on her Twitter page, I’d imagine. She’s the top ranked prospect in the state of Iowa according to PGH, and all due respect, but I presume that means she’d be the top prospect in South Dakota, too.
I don’t know where this Purdue blog section of Sports Illustrated got their numbers, but according to them, Snoozy averaged 19.0 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 4.2 assists per game. She also shot threes at a 43% success rate, which is pretty great.
Ready for some excitement? ESPN ranks Destiny Manyawu as the #50 prospect in the Class of 2027 in a ranking list that only goes out to 60 spots right now. They list her as a 6’2” forward, but her Prep Girls Hoops page has her as a 6’4” power forward. Intriguing! She attends Staley High School in Kansas City, Missouri, way up on the northern edge of town. Believe it or not, Manyawu is not PGH’s top prospect in the state for 2027, and she’s actually only third. ESPN has her at #2 in the state, so that’s not that much of a surprise, I guess. 247 Sports has her as the top prospect in the state and #35 in the country.
I don’t have much else in the way of details which seems a little wild given her recruiting rankings, but she has a Hudl page that was last updated in March.
Here’s the aforementioned Lily Fisher! Her own Twitter bio lists her as a 6’1” guard, which is maybe a little bit big on the guard side if that holds up into college. Her Prep Girls Hoops page says she’s a combo guard while listing her at 6’0”, but we’ll trust her on her height. She attends Libertyville High School in the north Chicago suburbs, and according to Max Preps, she had a pretty solid sophomore season. 12.5 points, 6.1 rebounds, 3.8 assists, and 2.8 steals per game is good stuff, but her 15% three-point shooting on 53 attempts in 32 games listed is, uh, not so good.
From a peek at her Twitter posts, it seems like Marquette is the first high major program to offer her a scholarship. The offers have been flowing in from elsewhere in college hoops, but once Marquette got in the door, Butler and DePaul joined along pretty quickly.
Her Hudl page is up to date as of late February of this year.
Over at Prep Girls Hoops, Brinley Altenburg is listed as a 5’10” combo guard/point guard. Per my earlier comments about combos & shooting guards: If you list combo before you list point, you’re not a point guard. She attends Sioux Falls Jefferson High School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, but Max Preps doesn’t have stats for them. PGH ranks Altenburg as the top prospect in South Dakota, which is pretty neat, although that does get us into that debate about Melina Snoozy that I touched on earlier.
Power conference offers have been rolling in for Altenburg all spring long. Oklahoma was the first this year, at least according to her Twitter posts, but she’s also gotten an offer from Missouri, Wisconsin, Arizona State, Colorado, Oregon, and Georgia Tech.
Can I interest you in a Hudl page that was last updated in late March?
Emily Forrester does have her own Twitter, but it’s mostly just retweets, and she did RT this one, so we’ll count it. In her own bio, she lists herself as a 6’4” forward, so that’s notable. Also notable: The fact that she used to be at Chambersburgh High School in Pennsylvania, and now she’s at Long Island Lutheran High School in New York. Those things are not close to one another, but we’re not here to ask questions about how all that works. What we can say is that she has this link in her Twitter bio that says she averaged 11 points and 14 rebounds per game as a freshman in PA, and that’s good!
Finley Parker says she’s a 6’3” wing/forward in her Twitter bio. I have a lot less problems with that split classification than the combo guard thing, that’s for sure. If you want to trust ESPN, they have her at 6’2” and as a wing, and seeing as they also rank her at #53 in the Class of 2027, I think we might listen at least a little bit. 247 Sports ranks Parker at #26 internally and #30 in their Composite, and they’re running with the 6’3” height as a power forward.
She attends River Ridge High School in Woodstock, Georgia, which is north of Marietta, which is northwest of Atlanta. I wonder of Parker considers herself to be an Atlanta kid? Back in the spring, she went to the Team USA U16 team trials as they put together a squad for the FIBA Americas Cup, but she didn’t make the cut. This was after averaging 14.6 points, 7.0 rebounds, and just over an assist and a steal per game for River Ridge as a sophomore this past year according to Max Preps. She seems to be a pretty confident shooter, connecting on 36% of her attempts across her two seasons of high school competition, and that’s on just under four attempts per game listed by Max Preps.
Since she went to the Team USA camp, offers have been rolling in for Parker, at least according to what she’s posted on Twitter. Arkansas was first after the trip to Colorado, followed by Texas Tech, Wake Forest, and Georgia Tech from the high majors. Purdue joined up not long before Marquette did, and Wisconsin got involved a day later.
The universe has to make a decision: Who do you want making the terrible “Awe-some” puns/jokes in the future? Is it me? Is it some less deserving blogger?
ANYWAY, over on her own Twitter, Awe lists herself as a 6’2” guard. Prep Girls Hoops goes one further and says that she’s a shooting guard. As a freshman at Stevens Point, she averaged 8.7 points and 5.8 rebounds per game according to the always helpful WisSports.net. She also added 1.6 assists, 1.8 steals, and 1.9 blocks, which is a lot of other stuff going on, too. That’s good enough to get Awe ranked as the fourth best prospect in the state according to PGH.
Her Hudl page has clips from games with SPASH but also clips with her playing for Purple Aces, her club team. That’s pretty slick, and it’s up to date as of late July.
We keep the Wisconsin theme going here, as Lana Mannetter is a 6’1” guard from Kenosha according to her own Twitter bio. She attends Westosha Central and plays club hoops for Wisconsin Impact. WisSports.net only has 14 games worth of stats for her, but in that time, she averaged 17.0 points per game along with 7.2 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 2.0 steals, and 1.5 blocks per game. That’s as a freshman, by the way.
Prep Girls Hoops has Mannetter one spot in front of Awe for player rankings in Wisconsin for the Class of 2028. Her Hudl page has high school and club highlights on it, but you have to be careful there. She also plays volleyball, and game footage from Westosha vs Waterford is the top thing on her page right now.
From her Twitter posts, it seems like Wisconsin was the first high major program to offer Mannetter a spot, coming through a couple of weeks before Marquette. Since the Golden Eagles made an offer, she’s made visits to Drake, Iowa State, Wisconsin, and Nebraska.
We step a little bit out of Wisconsin here, as Kendall Proffitt attends St. John’s Country Day School down in Orange Park, Florida. That’s a southwest suburb of Jacksonville if you’re keeping track, which does explain why she plays for Duval Elite on the club circuit. She’s been getting high major interest all summer, dating back to an offer from Mississippi State in mid-May. Proffitt also posted about offers from Cincinnati and Florida State, not to mention South Florida.
Prep Girls Hoops lists her as a 6’0” shooting guard. For the time being at least, Proffitt is not one of the five best players in Florida, so we’ll see what happens there. Her Max Preps page is interesting. It says she’s been playing Varsity for St. John’s since she was in sixth grade. If SJCDS is one of those places that just moves you from eighth grade to ninth grade on the same campus or in the same building, I guess that makes sense. She blew up big time this past year, averaging — no, seriously — 28.7 points and 8.8 rebounds per game. Those are both career highs, and so are her 4.4 steals and 3.1 blocks. Sorry, but her 2.6 assists are behind the 3.4 she averaged when she was in eighth grade. Bummer, huh?
Proffitt is a career 34% shooter from behind the arc, but two things to note: She exploded in shot volume in eighth grade, averaging 10.7 attempts per game, and that went UP to 13.3 last season. The other thing? She shot 35% both seasons. This seems kind of wild to watch, and you can go check out her highlights on Hudl.
There’s two very important things you need to know about Giovanna Burress. The first is that ESPN has her at #15 in the country for the Class of 2028, and they’re only ranking 25 girls at all right now. The other thing is the answer to a question that might have popped into your head if you’re, let’s say, over the age of 25: Yes, she’s the daughter of NFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress. In that link, it says she was averaging 20.6 points per game at the time for DePaul Catholic High School in New Jersey, and yes, that’s as a freshman. That was third in scoring in the state of New Jersey at the time, which seems good.
Her Twitter bio says that she’s a 5’10” guard, which is what ESPN lists her as. I can’t be the only one who wonders if her dad’s 6’5” genes might add a little bit to her height in between now and when she starts playing in college. Penn State made an offer the day after Marquette’s for her most recent high major offer, but she’s also gotten offers from SMU, Notre Dame, Illinois, Syracuse, and Ohio State going back to mid-June. Michigan State, her dad’s alma mater, made an offer in early June, too.
I’ve got two more I’m going to drop in here, but I’m also going to tell you up front: I’m not putting in any effort to find out anything about them. The Class of 2029 just started their freshman year of high school, and the Class of 2030 just started 8th grade. It is very nice that Cara Consuegra is getting in the door early with them, and that’s as far as I’m going to think about it.
Okay, let’s drop in Ye Olde Scholarship/Roster chart here.
First, let’s just say it out loud: At some point, we should probably be a little bit concerned about the roster for 2026-27, right? The fall signing period for the Class of 2026 is coming up at the start of November and as far as I know (and as far as Raoul over at the WBB Blog knows!), Cara Consuegra has one commitment and possibly as many as seven roster spots open? It’s probably only six, given that Aryelle Steven will probably miss this season and might then stick around, but that still leaves Marquette with just nine projected players at the moment.
ANYWAY, we have to address that issue because What Consuegra And Her Staff Do About 2026 impacts the direction that they’re taking 2027 and 2028. Is that roster going to be transfer-laden? Does that mean a lot of turnover or women coming in for two or three years, and the turnover is kind of varied? I could go on and on about this because of all of the questions it all raises.
I guess we’ll find out eventually?
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We haven’t really kept tabs on recruiting all summer, so let’s check in to see what the Golden Eagles have been doing.
And so, the top 60 Class of 2026 prospect will be joining the Golden Eagles’ roster when the school year starts in August.
Ben Steele interviewed a bunch of people from Australia to learn about the Class of 2026 Marquette commit.
He’s a Class of 2026 wing prospect with experience playing for Australia’s junior national teams.
June 15th is always the first day that coaches can initiate contact with athletes that just finished their sophomore year, so who is Shaka Smart prioritizing?
I circled back to find some more scholarship offers after writing about a handful of them last week.
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Mischa Candinas & Vincent Cervantes both finished T-20 on the individual scoreboard.
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