The top high schoolers will take their talents to the UBCO North Campus Gym for the annual Okanagan High School Basketball All-Star game.
The first game tips off at 3 p.m. Saturday featuring the junior girls. At 4:30, the junior boys will be on display right before the senior girls take the floor at 6 p.m.. The main event will be the senior boys game at 8 p.m.
Vernon will be well represented on all-star Saturday. The Rouault basketball family will be represented by Megan with the junior girls and older brother Michael in the senior boys game. Both siblings attend Fulton.
Noah Alleyne will also represent the Maroons in the junior boys game.
Four players from VSS will participate in the festivities. Jordyn Cullum will play in the junior girls game while Karley Fugel and Jordan Korol will play with the senior girls. John Garvie is the lone male Panther representative as he plays in the senior boys game.
There have been several graduates of this game to go on to play in the CIS, NCAA and the NBA.
Not too long ago, Kamloops’ Kelly Olynyk was featured in the game. He played in 2009 before heading to Gonzaga en route to the NBA.
Olynyk was a first-round pick by the Dallas Mavericks, and now plays for the Boston Celtics. UBCO Heat’s women’s coach Heather Semeniuk is the driving force behind the all-star event.
“The all-star game is worth every minute of time we put into it. It all goes into celebrating a group of people that deserve to showcase their efforts on the court,” said Semeniuk.
