Prairie’s Brooke Walling commits to Fresno State women’s basketball

Brooke Walling’s next chapter: the Fresno State Bulldogs.

The Prairie High School junior and two-time reigning Columbian All-Region girls basketball player of the year has verbally committed to the Mountain West Conference school. Walling announced her commitment Saturday morning on Twitter.

Had an awesome visit at Fresno State andddd…Go Bulldogs💙❤🏀⬇ pic.twitter.com/UI8MEnxQB9

— Brooke Walling (@brookewalling15) April 28, 2018

Walling joins a Fresno State team that finished 17-15 overall and fifth in the Mountain West at 11-7. It made its 16 postseason appearance in program history by reaching the second round of the Women’s Basketball Invitational.

The 6-foot-3 versatile forward averaged better than 17 points and eight rebounds a game in 2017-18 to lead the Falcons back to the Class 3A state tournament. Prairie’s season ended with a 49-45 round-of-12 loss to Stanwood despite a season-high 27 points from Walling. After the season, she repeated as The Columbian’s All-Region player of the year and was named first-team all-state in Class 3A. On Jan. 26, Walling surpassed 1,000 career points and 500 career rebounds.

Walling is the second Prairie player to verbally commit to a Division I women’s basketball program for the class of 2019. Cassidy Gardner, also a junior, committed to Portland State last month.

Prairie is expected to return its entire roster for 2018-19 after having zero seniors last season.