Our History

Established in 1912, Wasatch Academy Basketball is one of the oldest high school basketball programs in the nation with an illuminating history throughout the bygone days of Utah high school athletics.

Basketball at Wasatch Academy changed in 2009 after the school brought on Geno Morgan, an assistant coach at Emory University in Atlanta. In six seasons with Morgan as head coach, the Tigers won three state championships, including back-to-back Class 2A titles before going independent in 2014-15.

One year into its adventure as an Independent, the school and community was stunned when Morgan passed away of a heart attack in his sleep.

It was a major loss. Morgan had quickly created a basketball dynasty, won three state titles, coached the Tigers to a 128-20 record, been recognized as Utah’s top high school coach six straight years by the Best of State organization, and guided his guys to wins over Top 50 prep teams.

After the death of Coach Morgan, the Tigers kept up their winning ways. Wasatch Academy Basketball is recognized by NIKE, Inc. as a top-tier program in the United States thanks in part to its national recognition. The team finished the 2019-20 season with a consensus Top 3 national ranking out of more than 40,000 high school programs and has been invited 5 times to the GEICO Nationals.

Paul Peterson was named Head Coach in 2020 after serving as an Associate Head Coach. He played collegiately at BYU-Hawaii and professionally in England, Germany and Serbia. Coach Peterson is developing Wasatch student-athletes — both on and off the court — representative of Wasatch Academy’s highest standards.

During 2020-21, the team’s season was faced with COVID-19 uncertainties. Scheduling season games for the Wasatch Academy team and their competitor schools resulted in a conceptual league being formed. That league became the National Interscholastic Basketball Conference (NIBC) and after its trial year in 2020, the league expanded and formed a new conference.

In 2023, NIBC officially teamed up with Nike to form the ultimate boys high school basketball super conference, the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League Scholastic (EYBL Scholastic), beginning in the 2023-24 season. EYBL features traditional powers Oak Hill, Montverde, IMG Academy (Florida), La Lumiere School (Indiana), Sunrise Christian Academy (Kansas), Wasatch Academy (Utah), Bishop Walsh (Maryland), AZ Compass Prep (Arizona), Long Island Lutheran (New York), Sunrise Christian Academy (Kansas), Canyon International Academy (Arizona), Link Academy (Missouri), Orangeville Prep (Canada) and Veritas Prep (California).

From the results, tradition, quality of coaching staff, and strength of schedule to the student-athletes being pursued by the best university basketball institutions, there is simply no other program like it. Period.

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