Jana - Colorado High School Senior Athletes Search For Closure After Coronavirus Cancellations

Jana Van Gytenbeek will play basketball at Stanford this fall. Her senior year season at Cherry Creek High School was cancelled by the coronavirus outbreak school closures.

Vic Vella, cpr.org, May 25, 2020

A year ago this spring, Cherry Creek High School basketball star Jana Van Gytenbeek was dazzling spectators at the state playoffs. Her layup off the glass in the closing seconds of the Class 5A Championship was the shot that gave the Bruins a state title.

Fast forward to this year, in March: The Bruins were breezing through the state playoffs and knocking on the door of back to back state titles.

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Antelope High School basketball star Jzaniya Harriel announces commitment to Stanford

abc10.com, May 15, 2020

The five-star point guard is Sacramento's top girls basketball recruit and after her senior year she's set to join one of the top college programs in women's hoops.

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Jzaniya Harriel - Sacramento’s top girls basketball player chooses her college. Where’s she going?

Antelope guard Jzaniya Harriel shoots against Granite Bay in a 2019 playoff game. The Bee’s Girls Basketball Player of the Year two years running has committed to Stanford.

Cameron Salerno, sacbee.com, May 12, 2020

The top girls basketball player in the Sacramento area has made her decision.

Antelope High School guard Jzaniya Harriel announced her commitment to Stanford University on Tuesday. The senior-to-be averaged 25.9 points, 10.4 rebounds and 3.3 assists and led her school to a Sac-Joaquin Section championship win ober Del Oro at Golden 1 Center.

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Top scorers in Oregon girls basketball history: Cameron Brink climbs to No. 10 on all-time big-school list

Mike Swanson, oregonlive.com, April 30, 2020

But Mountainside senior Cameron Brink, above, ascended to No. 10 on Oregon's all-time scoring list among big schools (most of her points came playing her first three years with Southridge).

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6A all-state basketball: Fledgling program, serious injury … no matter the challenge, never count out the remarkable Cameron Brink

JD Humburg, oregonlive.com, April 17, 2020

Cameron Brink, Mountainside

6-5 senior forward

6A girls first team

2019-20 statistics: 19.7 points per game, 13.2 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 2.5 steals, 2.5 blocks, 54.1% field goals

It was the ankle injury heard all around the Oregon girls basketball scene. 

And it left everyone asking, Will Cameron be back this season?

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Jana Van Gytenbeek leaves Cherry Creek as a girls basketball legend

Dan Mohrmann, chsaanow.com, April 7, 2020

Two years ago, Clint Evans was still a little unsure if he wanted to take the girls basketball coaching job at Cherry Creek. It would mean heading to Colorado from Kansas and there were just too many uncertainties that came with such a big decision.

Then a blessing in disguise happened. A friend of his in Golden sent him a highlight reel of one of Cherry Creek's top players, a girl heading into just her junior year.

Evans couldn't get packed soon enough.

He just needed to watch a few minutes of film to see that Jana Van Gytenbeek was a special player and one that any coach in the country should want to coach.

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