Boys BasketballKent Denver has established itself as a basketball powerhouse. The Sun Devils have been to three consecutive state championships, winning back-to-back state titles in 2025 and 2026. But more importantly, for coach Todd Schayes, “playing basketball here means representing your school, your family and yourself in the highest form of sportsmanship, character and class.”
Coach Schayes asks his players to set personal and team goals, and he wants his players to learn from the success, as well as the adversity, that comes with playing high school sports—applying these lessons to their time in high school and beyond.
In his more than three decades of coaching the Sun Devils, Coach Schayes has surpassed 500 career wins and his teams have routinely been among the best in the state. That includes numerous league, district and regional titles, six state title game appearances and three state championships in 2026, 2025 and 1997.
Four of Coach Schayes’ players have been named 3A State Players of the Year—Caleb Fay '26 has received the award twice!—and more than a dozen have gone on to play college basketball, including seven at the Division I level.
