The 6-foot-3, 170-pound senior point guard averaged 24.2 points, 5.9 rebounds and three assists per game this past season, leading the Aztecs (26-4) to the 6A conference state final. The state's 2014-15 Gatorade Boys Basketball Player of the Year, Barcello set a school record this season by sinking 90.2 percent of his free throw attempts.
Barcello has maintained a 4.0 GPA in the classroom. He has signed a National Letter of Intent to play basketball on scholarship at the University of Arizona this fall.
A vocalist in his church choir, Barcello has volunteered locally on behalf of Feed My Starving Children, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and as a youth basketball coach. "Alex Barcello is one of the best point guards that I have seen in a while," said Derrick Donaldson, head coach at Highland High. "He takes a calm and cool approach and at the end of the game you don't even realize he has scored 30 points on your team."
