One of Southern California's premier precocious schoolhouse girls hoops stars is connected nan move.
Mathis Dritz, a 4-star forward/wing successful nan Class of 2026, will play her elder twelvemonth astatine Fairmont Prep successful Orange County aft spending her first 3 seasons of precocious schoolhouse 2 counties distant astatine Westlake.
Dritz was nan Ventura County Star Player of nan Year arsenic a sophomore successful 2023-24 for starring nan Warriors to an 18-7 record, a expanse of nan Marmonte League, and a CIF-Southern Section 2AA playoff berth. That play she had profession highs of 23.6 points, 15.1 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 3.9 steals per crippled and 41% FG successful summation to averaging 1.4 blocks. As a junior, Dritz averaged 22.2 points, 13.4 rebounds, 2.6 steals, 2.6 assists, and a career-high 1.7 blocks a crippled arsenic Westlake went 23-6, repeated atop nan Marmonte League, and made nan Division 1 playoffs.
Currently, Dritz is classed 86th successful her people by ESPN HoopGurlz and 70th successful 247Sports' Composite Rankings. She has not made her assemblage committedness yet and precocious took her first charismatic sojourn to Oregon aft nan conclusion of her inferior campaign.
Fairmont Prep is caller disconnected a CIF-SS Open Division playoff selection, which included a triumph against Windward successful excavation play, and is expected to person 1 of nan apical returning cores successful California. Dritz joins elder guard/wing Adyra Rajan (23 PPG, 6.4 RPG, 3.0 SPG, 157 threes connected 37% 3FG), elder guardant Sarah Aldeguer (15.4 PPG, 9.8 RPG, 2.8 APG, 2.0 SPG), elder constituent defender Lesina Afu (10.7 PPG, 2.7 APG), and inferior helping Kayla Priest (6.5 PPG, 51% FG, 44% 3FG).
Between Dritz and nan returning Huskies, Fairmont Prep has nan upside to beryllium a top-five squad successful California and ace nationalist rankings for nan first clip successful programme history.