Knight Moves, Apple Valley Hires, Rankings, Tourney and Camps

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KNIGHT MOVES
Former Gopher Leslie Knight has signed with a pro team in Switzerland. Three are no additional details on that yet. The Minnesota Miss Basketball of 2004 played her high school at Hopkins.

COACHING NEWS
Jeremy Gordon has been named the new head coach at Apple Valley. He was an assistant at Rosemount last season. Gordon will be the 4th head coach at AV in five years.

HOOPGULRZ RANKINGS
Here is a link to the Minnesota players in the ESPN HoopGurlz class of 2009 rankings. The ranking shown is the players rank at their position in the nation. There are 7 Minnesota players listed, 3 in the top 100.

Here is a link to the Minnesota players in the ESPN HoopGurlz class of 2010 rankings. They do not have a top 100 for this class or position rankings. There are 6 Minnesota players listed, 4 are listed as potential top 100.

You can check the whole country or sort by state, position, and class.

TOURNAMENT COMING
BATTLE OF THE PLAINS
There are 36 teams in the NCAA exposure event ranging from Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota and New Jersey. The elite divisions features twelve teams including IBCA Red (winners of Dakota Showcase), NE Bison CSS (winners of Houston Cy Fair Classic) New Jersey Flames Elite (New Jersey AAU State 17U champions), and many more prominent basketball programs. Over 50 college coaches have committed to attend this event which will take place at the Bison Youth Sports Complex 710 Hill St Lincoln, NE 68502.
Here are the schedules for the Elite Division, High School Select, and High School Open.

GOPHER TEAM CAMP
Here are a list of teams scheduled for the Gopher team camp from July 24-26.
BRACKET A
HOPKINS
WAUKEE, IA
EDEN PRAIRIE VARSITY
FARGO SOUTH, ND
OSSEO
TOTINO-GRACE
RAPID CITY STEVENS, SD VARSITY
BRACKET B
BENILDE ST. MARGARET
BISMARCK CENTURY, ND
WHITE BEAR LAKE
JORDAN
WILLMAR
ROGERS
RIVERVIEW GARDENS, MO VARSITY
BRACKET C
BUFFALO VARSITY
BRECK/IRONDALE
HASTINGS
MOUND WESTONKA
NEW RICHMOND, WI
OSAKIS
BRACKET D
NEW ULM CATHEDRAL
BETHLEHEM ACADEMY
VAN METER, IA
STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY, ND
EDEN PRAIRIE JV
BUFFALO JV
RIVERVIEW GARDENS, MO JV

SW MN STATE TEAM CAMP
The Worthington Trojans won the Gold bracket of the SMSU team camp last weekend.

MORE TOURNEY RESULTS
North Tartan Crosby finished 4-1, Consolation Champions in the Chicago Summer Showcase. After a bad loss to the Central Illinois Pizazz, NTC rattled off 4 convincing wins in a row against Wisconsin Higher Level Camps, Texas Dynasty, Michigan MGBR Elite and Illinois Lady Lightning.

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Hanna Muegge is averaging 3.8 ppg in the European 20u championships with Germany. Muegge is a Hopkins 2008 grad. Germany is in the consolation round with a 2-3 record.
On of her German teammates is Julia Trogele of Penn State.

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