High School Sports

Here is The Charlotte Observer’s 2024-25 girls’ high school basketball preview

By Langston Wertz Jr.

Updated November 15, 2024 11:21 AM

Here is the 2024-25 Charlotte Observer girls’ high school basketball preview.

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Features/Commentary

The Cannon School girls team is the Sweet 16 preseason No. 1 girls team in the area. (L-R) Maya McCorkle, Brooke Busby, Jakaila Gaskin, Madison Drayton and Jaiden Thompson on Wednesday, October 23, 2024. — The Cannon School girls team is the Sweet 16 preseason No. 1 girls team in the area. (L-R) Maya McCorkle, Brooke Busby, Jakaila Gaskin, Madison Drayton and Jaiden Thompson on Wednesday, October 23, 2024. JEFF SINER jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

10 burning questions about the upcoming season

Meet the area’s top 5 girls’ basketball players

Cannon School, hoping for a historic season, starts No. 1 in The Observer’s Sweet 16 poll

Porter Ridge star Ashanti Taylor led her team to 20-win season as a freshman. Now she wants more

In Gaston County, Stuart Cramer’s Oshauna Holland’s turning into a national recruit

NC statewide preseason rankings

County previews

(Includes top teams, players, predictions, notes, all-county team)

Mecklenburg County private

Mecklenburg County public

Cabarrus County

York/Lancaster (SC) counties

This story was originally published November 14, 2024 at 4:45 PM.

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