Grant Wardenaar (24) walks toward the center of the court holding a basketball celebrating his achievement in breaking the all-time scoring record at Royal High School. He has amassed over 1,600 career points through his junior season.
October 1, 2026
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Royal’s Grant Wardenaar commits to Central Washington University
ROYAL CITY — Though high school basketball is still a couple of months away, it wasn’t a bad time for Knights all-time leading scorer Grant Wardenaar to announce his commitment to the Central Washington University Wildcats. “They started recruiting me (after) my sophomore year, and then we've just been in touch since then,” Wardenaar said. “Coach (Brandon) Rinta was always calling me – probably two times a week since, like a few months ago. It felt good to kind of wrap up (recruitment) and know what I'm going to do after high school and just have a plan.”