Cy Creek guards join select group
Cypress Creek’s star backcourt of Kyndall Hunter and Rori Harmon joined an exclusive club as McDonald’s All Americans on Tuesday.
The pair of University of Texas signees will not play in the famed prep basketball all-star game as it was canceled for the second consecutive year over COVID-19 concerns. The inaugural girls’ game was in 2002 with the boys’ game in 1977. Houston was set to host the event last year.
Nominees still earned final roster spots despite the cancellations. The Houston area had 21 players – 17 girls and four boys – earn nominations this year.
Harmon and Hunter are the 17th and 18th girls’ McDonald’s All Americans from the Houston area. No boys’ nominees from the area made this year’s roster. Houston had gone just two years without a boys or girls representative at the games. Quentin Grimes (University of Houston; College Park) earned the boys’ distinction and Charli Collier (University of Texas; Barbers Hill), Queen Egbo (Baylor; Travis) and Cate Reese (Arizona; Cypress Woods) did so for the girls in 2018.
Cypress Creek (28-0) is the top-ranked team in the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches 6A girls’ rankings and meets Heights in the regional quarterfinals at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Delmar Fieldhouse.
This postseason, Hunter and Harmon hope to lead Cypress Creek to a third state tournament appearance in four years and ultimately the program’s first state championship.