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Check Out Where 2024 Seniors Will Play Next Year
With most of our Whatcom high school seniors graduating in the next two weeks, it’s the perfect time to look at where some of your favorite players will attending college next year to play basketball. Here are members of the Class of 2024 who have announced where they will be going this fall. And good luck to all of them. KAYLEE ANDERSON, WHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE Nooksack Valley’s clutch 3-point shooter will stay in Whatcom County … Read More »
Whatcom Hoops Girls Top 30: #1 Devin Coppinger
In an incredible season filled with outstanding players, Whatcom Hoops is ranking the top 30 girls. Each day we’ve featured an amazing player in our county, and today we’re ending our countdown with #1. So here is the best of the best. #1 Devin Coppinger, senior, Nooksack Valley WHY SHE’S #1: Who else would be #1? Coppinger took her place as arguably the best player in Whatcom County history by leading the Pioneers to their … Read More »
Whatcom Hoops Boys Top 30: #1 Anthony Canales
In an incredible season filled with outstanding players, Whatcom Hoops is ranking the top 30 boys. Each day we’ve featured an amazing player in our county, and today we’re ending our countdown with #1. So here is the best of the best. #1 Anthony Canales, senior, Lynden WHY HE’S #1: Canales not only was the best of the best in 2024, but he cemented his place among the best in the history of Whatcom County … Read More »
Whatcom Hoops Girls Top 30: #2 Finley Parcher
In an incredible season filled with outstanding players, Whatcom Hoops is ranking the top 30 girls. Each day we’ll feature an amazing player in our county and count down until we get to #1. So join us daily as we honor the best of the best. #2 Finley Parcher, freshman, Lynden WHY SHE’S #2: Has any girls basketball player in Whatcom County history made as much of an impact in her freshman season as Parcher? … Read More »
Whatcom Hoops Boys Top 30: #2 Dawson Bouma
In an incredible season filled with outstanding players, Whatcom Hoops is ranking the top 30 boys. Each day we’ll feature an amazing player in our county and count down until we get to #1. So join us daily as we honor the best of the best. #2 Dawson Bouma, senior, Lynden Christian WHY HE’S #2: Known mostly as a shut-down defender last season, Bouma nearly tripled his scoring output and became an elite all-around player. … Read More »
Whatcom Hoops Girls Top 30: #3 Payton Mills
In an incredible season filled with outstanding players, Whatcom Hoops is ranking the top 30 girls. Each day we’ll feature an amazing player in our county and count down until we get to #1. So join us daily as we honor the best of the best. #3 Payton Mills, sophomore, Lynden WHY SHE’S #3: With her resume, it’s hard to believe Mills is still just a sophomore. The 6-foot-2 post already is a two-time all-NWC … Read More »
Whatcom Hoops Boys Top 30: #3 Jeremiah Wright
In an incredible season filled with outstanding players, Whatcom Hoops is ranking the top 30 boys. Each day we’ll feature an amazing player in our county and count down until we get to #1. So join us daily as we honor the best of the best. #3 Jeremiah Wright, senior, Lynden Christian WHY HE’S #3: Wright was big for the Lyncs and not just because of his solid 6-foot-5 build. LC’s literal centerpiece the past … Read More »
Whatcom Hoops Girls Top 30: #4 Madi Cooper
In an incredible season filled with outstanding players, Whatcom Hoops is ranking the top 30 girls. Each day we’ll feature an amazing player in our county and count down until we get to #1. So join us daily as we honor the best of the best. #4 Madi Cooper, senior, Sehome WHY SHE’S #4: No player was more valuable to her team than Cooper, whose calm and consistent play was the main reason the overachieving … Read More »
Whatcom Hoops Boys Top 30: #4 Brant Heppner
In an incredible season filled with outstanding players, Whatcom Hoops is ranking the top 30 boys. Each day we’ll feature an amazing player in our county and count down until we get to #1. So join us daily as we honor the best of the best. #4 Brant Heppner, junior, Lynden WHY HE’S #4: Winning is in Heppner’s DNA with grandfather Howard, father Brian, and mother Sally collecting six basketball state titles between them. But … Read More »
Whatcom Hoops Girls Top 30: #5 Lainey Kimball
In an incredible season filled with outstanding players, Whatcom Hoops is ranking the top 30 girls. Each day we’ll feature an amazing player in our county and count down until we get to #1. So join us daily as we honor the best of the best. #5 Lainey Kimball, senior, Nooksack Valley WHY SHE’S #5: It’s easy to think of Kimball as the talented sidekick to Nooksack superstar Devin Coppinger, but Kimball was much more … Read More »
Whatcom Hoops Boys Top 30: #5 Wyatt Stephan
In an incredible season filled with outstanding players, Whatcom Hoops is ranking the top 30 boys. Each day we’ll feature an amazing player in our county and count down until we get to #1. So join us daily as we honor the best of the best. #5 Wyatt Stephan, senior, Bellingham WHY HE’S #5: Stephan was the Bayhawks’ leader not only in almost every statistical category but in competitiveness, which helped drive Bellingham to its … Read More »
Whatcom Hoops Girls Top 30: #6 Mari Binning
In an incredible season filled with outstanding players, Whatcom Hoops is ranking the top 30 girls. Each day we’ll feature an amazing player in our county and count down until we get to #1. So join us daily as we honor the best of the best. #6 Mari Binning, senior, Squalicum WHY SHE’S #6: A stone-faced assassin (in a good way), Binning has been the steady player the Storm could count on for four years. … Read More »
Whatcom Hoops Boys Top 30: #6 Talon Jenkins
In an incredible season filled with outstanding players, Whatcom Hoops is ranking the top 30 boys. Each day we’ll feature an amazing player in our county and count down until we get to #1. So join us daily as we honor the best of the best. #6 Talon Jenkins, junior, Meridian WHY HE’S #6: One of the Northwest Conference’s most dangerous shooters, Jenkins averaged 18 points a game and could put up big numbers in … Read More »
Whatcom Hoops Girls Top 30: #7 Ella Fritts
In an incredible season filled with outstanding players, Whatcom Hoops is ranking the top 30 girls. Each day we’ll feature an amazing player in our county and count down until we get to #1. So join us daily as we honor the best of the best. #7 Ella Fritts, sophomore, Lynden Christian WHY SHE’S #7: On a team that started the season with no returning starters and little varsity experience, Fritts was thrust in the … Read More »