
Stat Hound
Pirates basketball star Hull chooses Oregon ahead of senior season
Davis standout won last two MaxPreps Player of Years, 4A tourney MVPs for back-to-back champs
By JERREL SWENNING/Stat Hound
Aug 17, 2026
YAKIMA – With another monster season predicted for her senior campaign, Davis basketball star Cheyenne Hull – No. 69 in ESPN’s class of 2027 rankings – crossed off one item on her to-do list.
Flanked by her parents Brian and Jen and older sister Trista – herself a Division I basketball standout – the winner of the last two MaxPreps Washington Player of the Year Awards and Class 4A state tournament MVPs committed to Oregon on Monday at the Monday Morning Quarterbacks Meeting at Suntides Golf Course.
Hull had kept her recruitment private before Monday’s announcement, but said she was offered by more than 20 schools, with former Pac-12 rivals Arizona and Stanford also among the final schools.
“A little bit of the pressure is lifted off and I don’t have to worry about it anymore and I can just play,” she said.
The Ducks advanced to the round of 32 in the NCAA tournament last March, losing to eventual Final Four qualifier and Fort Worth region top seed Texas.
Oregon coach Kelly Graves, who was in attendance last month when Hull’s summer team the Northwest Blazers throttled the West Virginia Thunder in a national showdown broadcast on ESPN2, was key in landing the two-time CBBN MVP.
“He just made it feel like family over there, and made it feel like home,” Hull said, explaining that she settled on the Ducks a week ago Sunday.
For those family members who are part of Husky Nation, it’s on them to adjust to Hull playing for the University of Washington’s nemesis.
“They’re going to have to deal with it, because the choice has been made,” she said.
One person who probably won’t ditch her purple for the Ducks is Hull’s sister Trista, who capped her collegiate career in 2025 at Portland after playing her first three years at Boise State.
The older Hull, an all-state selection on the 2019 La Salle championship team, played the second half of the Australian NBL1 season after finishing the season as a grad assistant for the Pilots.
“We’ve seen all the hard work, so now to be rewarded with two kids that are going to be playing in college, it’s just fantastic,” Jen Hull said.
Cheyenne Hull has been a force since her freshman season when she helped the Pirates to their first state trophy – a third-place finish – in their second straight trip to the Tacoma Dome, after ending a 26-year drought.
As a sophomore, she led the tournament in scoring (23.0 points per game) as Davis battled through four games and beat Sumner, which had upset the Pirates in the regional round, for the program’s first state championship.
There was no slowing Davis last March, as the Pirates were undefeated against Washington opponents, winning all but one contest against state foes by at least 11 points and repeating as state champions.
Hull topped the tourney with 15.7 rebounds and 4.3 assists per contest, while also scoring 17.7 points a game. She racked up 17 points and 11 rebounds in the title game.
She has topped the CBBN in scoring the last two seasons for the Pirates, who have won 38 straight conference games, and four consecutive league and district championships.
This summer she capped her time with the Northwest Blazers by finishing an unbeaten spring and summer with a national championship.
Hull is one of four Blazers in ESPN’s top 70 of seniors, and the second to commit to college. Montana’s Spencer Laird, ranked 46th, is headed to Stanford, and has been pitching the Cardinal to Hull and Lynden’s Finley Parcher, the two-time 2A Player of the Year and No. 27 in ESPN’s rankings.
Likewise, Hull is trying to coax Parcher, who has helped the Lions to three straight undefeated seasons and 2A titles, to Eugene.
When signing day rolls around in November, Hull could be joined by senior teammates Isa Garcia, Kobe Johnson, Averie Brandt and Paige Gasseling. The senior group helps make the Pirates a heavy favorite to three-peat in 4A.
They’ve also led Davis coach Akil White to start piecing together a rugged schedule, full of top programs throughout the west.
“We tried to schedule the most competitive schedule ever,” White said. “Why not? It’s once in a lifetime you get a group like this, so let’s go for it.”
