This coming Sunday, Jennings - of Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia - will be named Player of the Year on PARADE magazine's 52nd annual All-America High School Boys Basketball Team.

Jennings, the 6-foot-2, left-handed point guard, demonstrated star power this season at Oak Hill, where he draws comparisons to Allen Iverson of the Denver Nuggets and is believed to be "one of the top 10 players ever" at Oak Hill Academy.

"Brandon has no weaknesses as a player," says Oak Hill Warriors head coach Steve Smith. "He took over our young team this season and carried us on his back. He loves to play the game."

And for a basketball factory that has produced more All-Americans in the last two decades than any other school, boasting Carmelo Anthony, Jerry Stackhouse and Rod Strickland among their alumni, Jennings is easily in good company.

He's a record setter at Oak Hill averaging 35 points a game, scored 63 points in one game earlier this season and was also named the 2008 Naismith National High School Basketball Players of the Year

Now he's joining the best of the best for PARADE: The NBA currently boasts 154 former PARADE All-Americans including Shaquille O'Neal, Allen Iverson,  LeBron James, and Kobe Bryant, who was PARADE¹s Player of the Year in 1998.

But that's not all. Other PARADE All-Americans also include greats as Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Bill Bradley, Magic Johnson, Patrick Ewing, James Worthy and the late Pete Maravich.

Jennings, 19, can only hope he'll one day share the same glory as these basketball greats. But while his name is now associated with the likes of Shaq, Kareem, LeBron, and Magic, that's not where Jennings story begins.

For that you'll have to travel to Dominguez High School in Compton, California.

After two years at Dominguez, Jennings transferred to Oak Hill Academy – a school founded on the excellence of education, not to mention a haven for high school hoops - before the start of his junior year. That year Jennings led the Warriors to a 40-1 record and seven #1 national rankings.

Jennings not only impressed at Oak Hill, but the Academy also left an impression on him.

When he first arrived, Jennings nearly fell into a similar rut he'd experience at Dominguez. He didn't even want to practice. His grades slipped some. But it was his mother, Alice Knox, who couldn't put up with her son's poor academics so off he went to Oak Hill.

Jennings says how his mother is always education first and basketball second. Basketball is temporary, but knowledge reigns supreme and that's one of the main reasons why Jennings opted for Oak Hill.

He was recruited by division one programs since the eighth grade, and verbally committed to USC his junior year at Oak Hill. But once Jennings took to Oak Hill and Virginia's remote Blue Ridge Mountain surroundings, he had a change of heart and withdrew his commitment from USC.

A wanted man, Jennings only looked at a couple schools but quickly found a home at Arizona during an unofficial school visit. Soon after, Jennings committed to Arizona – a point guard's dream - where he will play the 2008-09 season under Wildcats head coach Lute Olsen.

Oak Hill Academy head coach Steve Smith raves about Jennings' decision making and aggressiveness on the court. But more than his growth as a player, Smith applauds Jennings maturity as a person. And it's not hard to see why now that Jennings is being honored as PARADE's Player of the Year as an All-American.

It's only the start of great things to come for Brandon Jennings.