1994 all-state choice Cameron Murray (L) poses with his daughter Cayla Murray, his niece Maliyah Murray, alongside her father, 1989 Cal-Hi Sports Mr. Basketball Tracy Murray (R). Cayla is in eighth-grade, while Maliyah is 12 years old but has no trouble competing with girls of high school age. Photo: Harold Abend.

Well respected boys basketball scout and analyst Devin Ugland has produced his annual Skills Summit for boys for six years, but this year after holding the boys event, he decided to duplicate the format for girls. By all accounts, it was a smashing success, or shall we say a slam dunk. 

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The inaugural HER Skills Summit at Tustin High on Sunday attracted 64 girls from the Class of 2026 all the way up to the class of 2031, including the daughters of Marques Johnson, Tracy Murray and his younger brother Cameron Murray. 

Of the 64 attendees, there were only seven seniors (2026), but a whole lot of middle-schoolers. Not surprisingly, 6-foot-1 Windward (Los Angeles) sophomore Shiloh Johnson, Cameron’s eighth-grade daughter and already polished point guard Cayla Murray and Tracy’s seventh-grade daughter and wing Maliyah Murray were among the top players at the event. 

Also in attendance was new Troy (Fullerton) head coach Kevin Kiernan. The state’s all-time winningest coach with 900 career wins is on his second stint at Troy where he won three CIF Division II state championships before coming to Mater Dei (Santa Ana) where he won one CIF Division II and two Division I state championships. Before taking a seat in the stands to watch his daughter Kaidyn Kiernan, a nifty left-handed sophomore transfer to Troy from Mater Dei, and three of his freshmen, Yvonne Yim, Rilynn Robinson and Dylen Lee, Kiernan assisted in the 90-minutes fundamental skills drills. There was then a break for lunch before the group of girls was split up into eight teams for the afternoon session.

By our assessment, the top player at the Skills Summit was Windward 6-foot junior wing Charis Rainey. Her dribble drive was unstoppable, she dominated the glass on both ends, and even drained a couple of 3-pointers. She was invited to Colorado Springs for the 2025 USA Women’s U16 National Team trials in May and despite not even starting her junior season, Rainey reportedly has several offers including Arizona State. 

Two Mater Dei players also were among the event’s elites. 

Amiah Lewis, a 5-foot-8 senior point guard, showed excellent ball-handling skills and played excellent defense as well. Mater Dei fans will get to see what she has this season. Before transferring to Mater Dei last season where she missed several games with a fractured nose, she was at La Habra Sonora her first two years. It was pointed out by noted boys basketball analyst Frank Burlison, who came to the event to support Ugland and give girls basketball some love, that Lewis also had some basketball playing family in attendance. Her grandfather Mike Lewis played for and graduated in 1973 from Verbum Dei of Los Angeles. Her father, Mike Lewis Jr., was a 1996 graduate of Carson. 

Stella Hoss, a 6-foot junior forward for the Monarchs, showed marked improvement and some newfound long range shooting. She was tough around the basket and by our count she drained eight 3-pointers in the two games each of the eight teams played. 

Marques Johnson, the former Crenshaw (Los Angeles) star who went on to UCLA where he was coached by legendary John Wooden and won an NCAA championship before being named the first recipient of the John R. Wooden Award in 1977 and then spending 14 years in the NBA, brought his son Kris Johnson, the 1993 LA City Player of the Year 20 years after his father earned the same honor for the second time, with him. Kris has been working with Shiloh and her game has stepped up to another level. She’s long, solidly built, seems to be playing with a newfound passion, and even knocked down a few 3-pointers. We would be surprised if Shiloh doesn’t have a breakout season if she stays healthy.

We couldn’t help but reminisce with Tracy Murray about his performance in the 1989 CIF Division II state championship at the Oakland Coliseum Arena when he set the record for scoring in a state championship title game after dropping in 64 points in his final high school appearance. We also reminded him that back then we emceed the press conferences at the state championships and after the game he wasn’t very happy since his Glendora team lost, 89-83, to Menlo-Atherton of Atherton.

“I would rather have the ring than the 64,” said a smiling Murray who went on to star at UCLA and then spent 12 years in the NBA.

Cam Murray himself was a star at Glendora and then went on to play in college at USC and Louisville. He and Tracy have a family-run club girls program called Prodigy Prep in the Inland Empire and the cousins have gotten a ton of exposure and the tutelage as a result.

Rainey, Johnson, Lewis and Hoss were the top four players in our opinion, but Cayla Murphy wasn’t far behind, and coupled with Maliya Murray in reality the two cousins somewhat stole the show. 

The ball handling, athleticism, long range shooting and court sense of the 5-foot-5 Cayla Murray was as good as the top high school point guards we’ve seen and it’s a year before she’ll play her first high school game. She more than held her own and even dominated some of the older girls on Sunday. Maliyah is only 12 years old and is already 5-foot-10 and long so likely she will grow a bit. She can handle the rock as well and nailed some college-range 3-pointers. 

Besides Mater Dei and Windward, Sage Hill (Newport Beach) had a couple of standouts in junior wing Kamdyn Klamberg and sophomore Leah O’Toner.

Rainey will all be among the top ranked players in the upcoming Cal-Hi Sports Girls of Summer Player Rankings, and Johnson, Lewis and Hoss will get solid rankings, but there were several other players that caught our eye and will be ranked fairly high. They include in alphabetical order:

Leila Boykin (Marlborough, Los Angeles) F, 6-0, 2026

Angelina Habis (Windward, Los Angeles) G, 5-8, 2027

Bella Medina (Moreno Valley) G, 5-8, 2026

Alexie Werhle (Windward, Los Angeles) C/F, 6-1, 2028

Lauren Wolfe (Villa Park) G, 5-6, 2028

As for the middle school ballers, the top player was Mina Lu, an eighth grader from Rowland Heights. We counted nine made 3-pointers in her two games. Other middle school players that we liked include in alphabetical order:

Sadie Davis 2031

Zoey Gear (Prodigy Prep) 2030

Olympia Marinho 2031

Calista Monroe (Windward) 2030

Makena Ramos (Brentwood, Los Angeles) 2030

Aaliyah Robinson (Prodigy Prep) 2030

Remi Sumpter 2030

Harold Abend is the associate editor of CalHiSports.com and the vice president of the California Prep Sportswriters Association. He can be reached at marketingharoldabend@gmail.com. Don’t forget to follow him on Twitter: @HaroldAbend