PITTSBURG — Iola High’s Jazmyne Honeycutt and Seth Walden are among the 40 basketball players from Southeast Kansas named to play in Sunday’s fourth annual U.S. Army/Army Strong All-Star Game.
Also on the rosters are fellow seniors Abbie Smith of Uniontown High, Tevin Strack of Humboldt High and Bryan Newton of Crest.
The all-star games start at 1 p.m. Sunday with the girls playing first followed by the boys. The games are at the Pittsburg St. Mary’s-Colgan High Fieldhouse.
The games are sponsored by KSEK and KLKC Radio of Pittsburg and the U.S. Army.
In addition to the games, there will be three-point shooting contests for both girls and boys and a dunking contest for the boys.
Players were selected to play in the game through a coaches’ poll conducted at the conclusion of the basketball season. All senior players from the Three Rivers, CNC, and SEK leagues (along with five teams from the Tri-Valley) were eligible for the game. Coaches were only allowed to vote for players on teams they played throughout the course of the season, and players with the highest percentage of votes received invitations.
On the girls side, other players scheduled to appear include Brooke Sharp and Aly Aylward (Chanute), Danielle Crain (Columbus), Jolee Sharp (Fort Scott), Talor Smith (Independence), McKenna Britton (Labette County), Marlee Cares (Parsons), Kristina Willis (Pittsburg), Emily Barto (Frontenac), Kelsey New (Galena), Carly Twarog and Morgan Boore (Girard), Ashley Werner and Katie Hayes (Colgan), Christina Graves (Fredonia), Taylor Giger (Neodesha), Jessica Tuck and Allison O’Brien (St. Paul),
Other participants for the boys include Cory Henshall (Chanute), Ethan Cordray (Coffeyville), Matt Crain (Columbus), Gary Floyd (Fort Scott), Tarial Johnson and Trey Thomas (Parsons), Collin New and Brannon Green (Labette County), Blake Wilson (Pittsburg), Preston Page and Tyler Kiister (Erie), Colton Leet and Cody Clark (Galena), Jesse Watt (Colgan), Gable LaForge (Caney Valley), Roman Lopez (Cherryvale) and Damon Trotnic (Oswego).
Five area high school players on Sunday’s all-star game rosters
