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Diamond Stars: VYPE's Top 21 Softball Preseason Prospects
Heading into the 2021 season, VYPE decided to rank its Top 21 prospects in both baseball and softball in the Greater Houston area.
Here are the Top 21 softball players as ranked by VYPE heading into the spring.
1 Sophia Simpson, Barbers Hill (Texas)
2 Turiya Coleman, C.E. King (Oklahoma)
3 Koko Wooley, La Porte (Texas A&M)
4 Mya Holmes, Texas City (Texas)
5 Samantha Landry, Barbers Hill (UL at Lafayette)
6 Katie Cimusz, Atascocita (Texas)
7 Kennedy Powell, Conroe (UCLA)
8 Olivia Johnson, Pearland Dawson (Washington)
9 Mia Scott, Angleton (Texas)
10 Kayden Henry, Dickinson
11 Ja'Naiya Thomas, Cypress Creek (Houston)
12 Demi Elder, Clear Springs (Texas Tech)
13 Emiley Kennedy, Lake Creek (Texas A&M)
14 Kasidi Pickering, Atascocita
15 Sa'Mya Jones, Pearland Dawson
16 Emma Strood, Clear Springs (LSU)
17 Avery Hodge, Fort Bend Christian Academy (Oklahoma)
18 Gabby Leach, The Woodlands
19 Alannah Leach, The Woodlands
20 Brianna Ellis, Memorial (Auburn)
21 Cameryn Harrison, Katy
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TOP 25: VYPE Girl's Basketball Player Rankings
Houston is full of girls' basketball talent. That's the fact.
In espnW's Top 100 2020 recruits list, Houston takes home four of the Top 100 slots, led by Westside's Fatou Samb and Summer Creek's Maliyah Johnson.
VYPE scoured through lists and came up with the Top 25 players in the city from freshmen to seniors.
VYPE TOP 25
1 Maliyah Johnson, Summer Creek (Texas A&M)
2 Fatou Samb, Westside (Cal Berkely)
3 Elyssa Coleman, Atascocita (Texas)
4 Jada Malone, The Village School
5 Rori Harmon, Cy Creek
6 Kyndall Hunter, Cy Creek
7 DeYona Gaston, Pearland (Mississippi State)
8 Laila Blair, Waller (Houston)
9 Riane Burton, Cy Ranch (Cincinnati)
10 Taelor Purvis, FB Hightower (Houston)
11 Alicia Blanton, Foster
12 Shadiya Thomas, Cy Ranch
13 Kamryn Jones, Magnolia West (Houston)
14 Bre'yon White, Shadow Creek
15 Destini Lombard, FB Hightower (LSU)
16 Precious Johnson, Baytown Sterling (Texas)
17 Shira Patton, Cy Ranch (Northern Arizona)
18 Kameryn Lewis, Westside
19 Aleighyah Fontenot, Ridge Point
20 R'Mani Taylor, Shadow Creek
21 Rylee Grays, The Village School
22 Morgan Hill, Cy Creek
23 Tori Garza, New Caney
24 Jermia Green, Clear Springs
25 Kennedy Powell, Conroe