According to DEREK REUBEN, director of the Inner City All-Star Classic, the rosters are set for the annual boys’ and girls’ basketball contests featuring the metro area’s top seniors.
Reuben, who was named the state’s Mr. Basketball after an outstanding career at Minneapolis North, started the boys’ game in 1994 with then-teammate and friend RALPH CROWDER. At the urging and persistence of the late community and sports activist KWAME MCDONALD, a girls’ game was added in 2001.
This year’s Inner City All-Star Classic will be held Sunday, June 8, at the University of St. Thomas.
Boy participants
REID TRAVIS ( Minneapolis DeLaSalle, 6’8” forward); NGOR BARNABA (Rochester John Marshall, 6’9” forward); PIERRE CONWELL (St. Paul Johnson, 6’3” guard); J.P. MACURA (Lakeville North, 6’5” guard); LOUIS WILLIAMS (St. Paul Johnson, 6’2” guard); WHEELER BAKER (Osseo, 6’2” guard); KAMALI CHAMBERS (Hopkins, 5’11” guard); GENO CRANDALL (Minneapolis DeLaSalle, 6’3” guard); IAN SMITH (Champlin Park, 5’10” guard); JALEN PATTERSON (St. Thomas Academy, 6’2” guard); COLTON WILLIAMS (Columbia Heights, 6’3” guard); JAMES LAWSON (Minneapolis DeLaSalle, 6’3” guard); MARKUS TAYLOR KNIGHT (Atlanta Kingdom Prep (GA), 6’6” forward); D.J. DAVIS (Bloomington Kennedy, 6’4” guard); RAYEON WILLIAMS (St. Paul Central, 6’2” guard); JORDAN DEMBLY (Osseo, 6’2” guard); JOHN SABASKI (Prior Lake, 6’1” guard); ANDREA WALLACE (Eden Prairie, 6’2” guard); JAVON JEFFERSON (Minneapolis Henry, 6’4” forward); DARION STRONG (Quakerdale Prep (IA), 6’1” guard); CHRIS SANDERFER (Los Angeles Taft High, (CA), 6’5” forward); KEENAN BELLAPHANT (Tartan, 6’0” guard);
Girl participants
ALEXIS ALEXANDER (Champlin Park, 5’7” guard); CAYLA MCMORRIS (Park Center, 5’11” guard); CHASE COLEY (Minneapolis Washburn, 6’2” center); TONOIA WADE (Bloomington Kennedy, 6’1” forward); JADA JONES (St. Paul Central, 5’5” guard); DAIZJAH MORRIS (Centennial, 5’9” guard); JAYLA JACKSON (Eden Prairie, 5’9” guard); KAELA JONES (Maple Grove, 5’8” guard); NAJA WOODS (Minneapolis Southwest, 5’7” guard); JAELIN BEACHY (Staples Motley, 5’7” guard); TIA ELBERT (Tartan, 5’7” guard); KENISHA BELL (Bloomington Kennedy, 5’9” guard); RAYNA SHAROW (St. Paul Central, 6’0” center); KAILA BURROWS (St. Cloud Tech, 5’11” forward); ISY ODOR (Bloomington Kennedy, 6’0” center); DESTINEE MORRIS (Centennial, 5’9” guard); MADISON LEE (Maranatha, 5’8” guard); AYO PORTE (Osseo, 5’10” guard); LYRIC WILLIAMS (St. Paul Central, 5’5” guard); CHANEL KHAMMARATH (Chicago Marshall High, 5’9” guard).
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