The Buena High School Summer Program consisted of four teams: varsity, junior varsity, freshmen, and middle school. We also held a tournament over Memorial Day weekend, had two sessions of basketball camp for boys and girls going into grades 3-9, and ran a summer league for our own lower level teams and the smaller high schools in the area.

Our varsity has to travel during the summer. It would not do us any good to play the local small schools. This is very expensive but the Sierra Vista business and civic community has generously supported summer basketball in Sierra Vista over the past four summers. We participated in our own Memorial Day weekend tournament, the Flowing Wells Summer League (on Tuesday and Thursday nights), the Shadow Mountain Invitational, the Central High School tournament (June 15 and 16), Just Hoops, and the Palm Springs High School Tournament. The summer season ended on a positive note for us as we won the Palm Springs Tournament last weekend. Mike Grayson was named tournament MVP, Brandon McClellan made all tournament, Derek Lane played his usual spectacular defense, Tim White and Casey Mackin stepped up big, and we got solid contributions from DeAndre Little, Cole Colvin, and Daniel Chavez. We did not have our football players Jamal Womble and Jake Muasau much this summer. We were also without one of our best players Enrique Martan who missed last season with a torn ACL and has had some minor setbacks. I believe that Enrique would have been a first team all region player last year. We finished 23-7 and second in the 5A South without him. We would have been even better.

Our JV team participated in our summer league (2 teams), The U of A Team Camp, the Benson Tournament, and Just Hoops I think they got in 27 or 28 games. Our freshmen played in our summer league (2 teams), the U of A Team Camp, a tournament at Velocity Sports Performance in Tucson, and Just Hoops. They also played in the area of 27 or 28 games. Our middle school team played in our summer league, the Velocity tournament, and will participate in the Sporting Chance Summer Slam Fest in Tucson this weekend.

We had fourteen teams in our Memorial Day tournament. The larger schools included Shadow Mountain, Cienega, Amphi, Marana Mountain View, and Sahuarita. Safford, Tombstone, Coolidge, and Pusch Ridge were among the small schools participating. Douglas, Safford, Tombstone, Valley Union, Benson, and St. David competed against our younger teams in the Buena League on Tuesday and Thursday nights. We had fifty-eight participants in the first session of basketball camp (up from 20 at the first year) and have thirty-five at a night camp we are running at a local middle school this week.

We are 69-22 the past three seasons. I believe that may be the best record in Southern Arizona over that time. If we were in a major city, we would probably have kids beating down the doors wanting to play here. It is different for us. We are the high school in a one high school town. We have to develop our own players. Along those lines we run a program for 4th, 5th, and 6th graders in the fall (it actually begins in mid August) and a league for the 7th and 8th graders in the spring. In addition to our summer camps, we run a series of free clinics during the school year and host a fall jamboree for the local middle schools. We will not always be able to control the level of talent that we have to work with. However, we are always going to work hard and try to run our program the right way.

Coach Royce Youree came to Sierra Vista two years ago and talked to our entire basketball program. Coach is currently in the process of beating prostate cancer. We are behind you Coach.

Coach Glasgow

Buena