This is the second straight year that Bay College is hosting this event sponsored and conducted by the U.P. Sports Hall of Fame.

Festivities begin at 5 p.m. with the skills competition that will include free throws, 3-pointers and dunks.

The Girls All-Star Game is scheduled for 5:30 p.m., then the Boys All-Star Game at 7:30 p.m. Players from all over the U.P. will be split into North and South squads.

All players are recently graduated seniors who have used up their high school eligibility, as those who haven’t would be in danger of losing it by playing in these games.

From left, Westwood's Ethan Marta plans his shot while defended by Negaunee’s Easton Guenette and Cole Prusi during their high school boys basketball game played at the Miners’ gym in Negaunee on Dec. 19. (Photo courtesy of Cara Kamps)

Tickets will be sold at the door, with all proceeds to benefit the U.P. Sports Hall of Fame.

A total of 11 area players hailing from Marquette, Alger, Baraga and Luce counties are included among the 38 players, representing nearly 30% of the total.

Seven of the local players will be in the boys game, the remaining four in the girls.

Negaunee leads area representation with three players, Clare O’Donnell on the South girls team and Tristan Slater and Easton Guenette on the North boys team.

State girls champion Ishpeming has two of those Hematites players on the North girls team, Jenessa Eagle and Brittanie Piotrowski.

Ishpeming's Jenessa Eagle, left, closely guards Iron Mountain’s Olivia Geneva soon after the Mountaineers player took an inbounds pass during their high school girls basketball game played at the Hematites gym on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. (Photo courtesy Cara Kamps)

Westwood also has two representatives, both for the North boys, Ethan Marta and Caden Balzarini.

Marquette has a player on the South girls team, Lexi Curran, while Munising has Nolan Connaughton on the South boys squad.

Baraga’s Daniel Connor will be on the North boys unit as Newberry’s Kegan Martin will also be with the North boys.

A Monday news release about the game issued by Bay College Sports Information didn’t list coaches.

Here are the balance of the players, each listed with school:

Girls game

North — Emily DelFavero and Carine Cole, Wakefield-Marenisco; Emma Besonen and Irelynd McGeshick, Ewen-Trout Creek; Emery Chynoweth, Hancock; Cleo Milkey, Lake Linden-Hubbell; Jaelyn Novascone, Ironwood

South — Lillie Johnson and Addy Blowers, Gladstone; Gianna Coduti and Lexi Marineau, Menominee; Lauren Adams, Norway; Elsie Williams, Forest Park; Lakelyn Bunker, Mackinac Island

Boys game

North — Liam Tourtillott and Caleb Kentala, Dollar Bay; Jack Nelson, Ontonagon; Nick Miskovich, Ironwood

South — Gunner Bennin and Mac Collins, Pickford; Owen Olkkonen, Kingsford; Brayden Derouin, Bark River-Harris; Jaxon Clark, Rudyard; Tanner Theuerkauf, Menominee; Drew Moser, Cedarville; Ty King, North Dickinson; Evan Arnold, St. Ignace

Story contents based on email received from Bay College sports information director Mike Pankow. Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee’s email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.