Year
#6
was great!
30 Blast teams competed statewide!
Upperclassmen played in front of dozens of college coaches!
92 college commits and 134 all-state selections over the last 5 years!
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Congratulations to Buckeye State Blast Royal (2023’s) and Buckeye State Blast Neon (2024’s) for winning Platinum Championships in their divisions today at The Run for the Roses in Louisville, Kentucky!
Congratulations to our 69 players who earned all-conference honors this winter! Major props to the 6 girls and 3 coaches who earned POY/COY honors, as well!
CONGRATULATIONS to Celina Koncz from Chippewa HS for her verbal commitment to Ursuline College, where she will continue her basketball and academic careers!
@celina_koncz
@UCArrowsWBB
@UCArrows
Thank you to
@AshlandWBB
Head Coach Kari Pickens for coming to the retreat and starting our Sunday off well! Coach spoke about developing an identity that is bigger than basketball, while positively affecting those who we cross paths with!
CONGRATULATIONS to Taylor Leedy from Massillon Tuslaw HS for her verbal commitment to Marietta College where she will continue her basketball and academic careers!
@taylorleedy
@Marietta_WBB
@MariettaCollege
Congratulations to our 56 all-conference selections from the 2020-21 girls basketball season!
These picks span 15 different leagues and include 3 girls who were named Player of the Year.
Also - congrats to the 4 Blast coaches who were named Coach of the Year by their league!
Thank you to Baldwin Wallace Head Coach
@CheriHarrer
for coming to speak with our kids at our retreat! Coach Harrer did an outstanding job of detailing what a student-athlete should look for when making their college decision!
Congratulations to the Orange, NL Neil, Royal and Scarlet teams for winning championships this weekend!
Shoutout to everyone else for an outstanding weekend of basketball!
@NxxtLvLBball
As we head out this weekend…our goal has always been for ALL of our teams to be competitive - and this is certainly the case now!
We will also continue to encourage kids to attend proms, play spring sports, take family vacations and live life outside of AAU basketball!
CONGRATULATIONS to Annie Seboe and Emily Seboe from Loudonville HS for their verbal commitments today to Huntington University in Indiana! The twins will continue their basketball and academic careers at Huntington!
@AnnieSeboe
@EmilySeboe
@HuntingtonU
The Royal team runs out of gas and loses 36-33 in the final 30 seconds to a Bluestar Atlanta Cagers team loaded with D1 talent! The opportunity to play in front of that # of fans/colleges on that court against
@atlantacagers
is something that we won’t forget! Royal finishes 5-1.
THANK YOU for an outstanding weekend at The Clash!
We could not ask for better players, families and coaches.
Huge shoutout to all of the colleges who came through to watch our girls - we appreciate you!
We went 41-17 with 1 tourney champion, 3 runner-ups and 7 pool champs.
CONGRATULATIONS to the THIRTY-EIGHT All-State selections from our club this winter!
We have had a BLAST watching you play and couldn’t be more proud of you!
Nearly 20 of our 2023’s have scholarship offers (more coming this year) and many others with great D3 opportunities.
We don’t play in a league, our kids can attend whatever individual events they want, we support spring sports. We have high level coaches.
Proud of our club!
Congratulations to Celina Koncz from Chippewa on an outstanding junior season! Celina is a 5’11 wing who led her team to the state final 4, scored her 1000th point and earned WCAL Player of the Year, 1st-Team NE-Inland Dist., 1st-Team Dist. 4 Coaches and 2nd-Team All-Ohio honors.
Thank you to our 27 teams for a great spring/summer with the Buckeye State Blast!
HUGE thank you to our Scarlet, PHX, Royal and Purple 2023 teams and their families! We believe we had the deepest 2023 group in OH! These girls (missing a few in these pics) proved it repeatedly!
Had a BLAST tonight at Garfield with this crew! Thank you to Coach Gilbert for letting us use your beautiful facilities and shoutout to the players, parents and coaches for being so dedicated! These girls came to work and they definitely got better!
We had a great first day at our program wide retreat! Our girls did some team bonding + we had some grade level competitions in the gym! We are ready for a jam-packed Saturday!
These STUDS on the Red team had another GREAT day at The Clash - picking up a 67-23 win over Phenom and a 60-33 win over Indiana Flight! They finished as champions in their pool with a 3-0 record!
We want to send our deepest condolences, thoughts and prayers to the family of Michael Howman. Mike was an assistant coach for our club last spring, helping with his daughter Lizzy’s team. A few days ago, Mike passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. Rest In Peace Mike.
Red wins an instant-classic over a previously unbeaten New Jersey Freedom team! The 38-36 victory makes the Red team pool champions at 5-0 for the weekend and advances them to the Final 4 of bracket play on Tuesday morning!
Thank you to everyone who helped make our 1st annual retreat a huge success! We had a BLAST!
There are too many people to name, but please know that we appreciate all of you!
We are missing some players/coaches in these pics, but you can see it was quite the talented group!
Thanks to everyone who made the retreat happen! Coaches for getting after it..families for providing food..college coaches/speakers..local HS’s for providing gyms..PVR for being great hosts..our kitchen staff for organizing meals..the girls for working so hard! We had a BLAST!
We are THRILLED to announce that we have added the Nexxt Level basketball family to our Buckeye State Blast AAU program. This move injects A TON of quality players and coaches from Northwest Ohio into our rapidly growing club - making the future even brighter!
@NxxtLvLBball
Congratulations to our 50 all-district selections from the 2020-21 girls basketball season!
Picks were made by the media AND/OR coaches and include 2 girls who were named Player of the Year.
Also - congrats to the 2 Blast coaches who were named Coach of the Year
Thank you to Ursuline College Head Coach
@Coach_Sword
for coming to the retreat and speaking with our girls about what it takes to be a good teammate and a good student-athlete!
Reach out if you want to join the Blast family! Our 2023 class has nearly 25 kids with scholarship offers and 40 kids with college opportunities. Our 24/25/26/27 classes are loaded!
NEO/clubwide -
@TylerJamesBates
NWO -
@NxxtLvLBball
Central OH -
@TheAbner
Space is limited!
CONGRATULATIONS to Caitlyn Condoleon from Warren JFK HS for her verbal commitment to Westminster College in Pennsylvania, where she will continue her basketball and academic careers!
@ccondoleon20
@warrenjfk
@WC_WBB
Between the 5 exposure events that our teams attended this spring and summer - we finished with an 85-42 record as a club!
There wasn’t a single weekend where one of our teams had a losing record!
We won titles and got blown out + everything in between!
Proud of our kids!
Congratulations to our THIRTY-SIX All-State honorees! Thanks to the OPSWA for recognizing these ballers! We had a BLAST watching you during the 2023-2024 girls basketball season!
Congratulations to Grace Schill for her verbal commitment to continue her academic and athletic careers at Westminster College!
We are pumped for you
@gracie_3_schill
!
Congratulations to Kylie Leibacher, Jaelle Keller, Ellyse Schaefer, Cassidy Lane, Grace Paseka, Kenadie Saylor, Gabi Cullen and the Margaretta Polar Bears on the Regional Championship! Good luck at State!
Our Blast girls finished 23-13 overall this week at
@TFNsRun4Roses
. We played against outstanding competition in front of colleges from all over the country
Thanks to the event organizers and staff, as well as our players, coaches and families for a great week!
Good luck to all of our players and coaches as they begin State tournament play! Whether you play one game or make a run to the state Final 4 - leave it all on the court and cherish the time that you have playing with your friends.
Congratulations to Karli Anker from Manchester on an outstanding sophomore season! Karli is a 5’8 guard who earned 3rd-Team All-Ohio, 1st-Team PAC, 1st-Team Tri-County Coaches and 1st-Team NE-Inland District honors! We are proud of you!
@AnkerKarli
Congratulations to all of our girls who earned All-District honors from the OPSWA Media this winter!
Apologies if we missed anyone - we took these names from local newspaper releases!
Congrats to Neon (2024’s) for finishing 5-0 and winning the Platinum Championship at The Classic this weekend in Louisville, KY! These girls had a tremendous spring and are a huge part of our LOADED group of 2024’s.
Congratulations to Annabel Rodriguez, Kendal Shiarla, Tristan Nash, Elena Moyer, Sky Regan, Aira Regan and the Chippewa Chipps for the Regional Championship! Good luck at State!