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December 2, 2008
SHINING STAR BASKETBALL

Announcing the Shining Star Award winners for each team from last season.

We recently announced the Shining Star Award winners for each of our teams from last season and we wanted to ensure these players got properly mentioned.

The Shining Star Award winner is the player on each team that best exemplifies the high standards that Shining Star requires.

Some players have used this simple nomination on their basketball resume's down the road in their college recruitment. Others simply take pride in the fact their coaches and Shining Star appreciate their effort, enthusiasm and enjoyment of working on a team to achieve a goal.

We ask you to join us in congratulating them. We are proud of all of our players and take special pride in these select players and appreciate their efforts!

Winners are located on our blog site. You can access it by clicking here.

January 25, 2008
SHINING STAR SPORTS

Shining Star Sports is excited to announce that nine area basketball players that played with Shining Star this past AAU season were nominated on the first McDonald's All-American Game ballot!

While the chances are slim that any of our players will actually play in the game, we are proud to have our guys be mentioned as some of the top high school players in the country!

Of the 58 players from Ohio appearing on the list, Shining Star is proud to claim seven of these players! In Kentucky, two of the 39 state wide nominees played with our teams!

This is exciting news for these players, their coaches and our entire program. Over five years ago, we set out to build our program to achieve such accolades as this. Congratulations to these players, their coaches and their teammates.

Here is the list of Shining Star alums and their high school
Walt Gibler - St Xavier
Derek Hellemann - Lebanon
Arrez Henderson - Covington Holmes
Cam Johnson - Aiken
Quinn McDowell - Moeller
Te'Allen Price - Woodward
Kyle Rudolph - Elder
Michael Sparks - Lexington Catholic
Charles Winkfield - Huber Heights Wayne

Less than 1400 of the approx 150,000 high school senior players were nominated throughout the entire country. So to be selected on this list means that these are the top one percent of senior high school basketball players! If you can ever be considered in the top one percent of anything, you should be proud!

Here are the other players nominated in the immediate greater Cincinnati area -

Brandon Baker Milford

Damon Butler North College Hill

Courtney Davis Taft
Michael Davenport Moeller

Yancy Gates Withrow
Chris Grimes Withrow

Troy Long Withrow

Anthony McBride Withrow
Trevor Niles Winton Woods