AURORA | Sienna Betts has earned just about every top honor possible for an elite basketball player and she can now add McDonald’s All-American to the list.
The 6-foot-4 post player at Grandview High School — which is currently ranked No. 1 in Class 6A in the Colorado High School Activities Association Seeding Index — was among the 24 senior players across the country picked for the prestigious game, which is scheduled for April 1 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Betts is tied for the 6A lead in rebounding at 16.7 per game to go with a 23.5 points per game average that ranks fourth in the classification. The two-time defending Colorado Gatorade Player of the Year also ranks third in blocked shots per game at 3.8 per contest and sixth in assists at 4.5 for coach Josh Ulitzky’s Wolves, who she seeks to lead to a third state championship in four seasons.
Next year, Betts will join older sister Lauren — another former Grandview star — at UCLA, which is currently the top-ranked women’s basketball program in the country. As a junior, Lauren Betts is coming off a week in which she was the national player of the week and she is a prime candidate for national player of the year.
The Betts sisters and Michaela Onyenwere give the Grandview program three McDonald’s All-American selections in the past seven years, as Onyenwere became the first in 2017. Lauren Betts was next in 2022 and now Sienna Betts. The Aurora area’s other McDonald’s All-American selection all-time is Regis Jesuit grad Fran Belibi in 2019.
Sienna Betts is also one of two Colorado players picked for this season’s McDonald’s All-American game, as Alexandra Eschmeyer — a 6-foot-5 forward at Peak to Peak Charter School and Stanford commitment — is also slated to be part of the West team. Six Colorado girls players were nominated, a group that also included Tianna Chambers, Gianna Smith, Brooklyn Stewart and Quinn VanSickle.
The McDonald’s All-American Games festivities begin March 31 with the Sprite Jam Fest — a 3-point competition — and continues April 1 with the girls game at 4:30 p.m. MT followed by the boys at 7 p.m. The games will be broadcast nationally on ESPN and ESPN2.
Courtney Oakes is Aurora Sentinel Sports Editor. Reach him at sports@sentinelcolorado.com. Twitter/X: @aurorasports. IG: Sentinel Prep Sports
