Alex Barcello

In his junior season, in the state tournament, Barcello surpassed 1,000 points in only his second varsity season. He led his team to the Division I tournament as the top seed. In his senior season, Barcello scored 2,254 career points at Corona shooting over 55 percent from the field and almost 90 percent from the charity stripe. He tallied 31 points in his team’s win over Christ the King in the Hoophall Classic. He also advanced to the finals of American Family Insurance National 3-Point Shooting Competition. He averaged 24.2 ppg, 3.0 apg and 5.8 rpg.

Barcello announced he planned to transfer from Arizona prior to the 2019–20 season. He opted to come to BYU where he received a waiver and played immediately instead of sitting out a season. Barcello scored 18 points in a 91–61 win over Weber State on December 21, 2019. He had 18 points and a career-high six three pointers, part of a BYU record 18 three pointers, in a 77–54 win over Loyola Marymount on February 14, 2020.

Barcello was considered as one of the best players in the 2017 recruiting class by Scout.com, Rivals.com and ESPN. He was a consensus four-star prospect in the Class of 2017 and committed to play at Arizona over offers from Virginia, Butler, Indiana and Stanford.

As a freshman in 2013–14, he scored 15 points coming off the bench in the state championship game to help secure the school's third straight state title in overtime. In his sophomore season, he led the school to a 33–1 record and a second state title, and the Aztecs were ranked the consensus No. 3 team in the nation and when he was teammates with No. 1 2018 player Marvin Bagley III, who later transferred. Arizona coach Miller offered Barcello a scholarship after he poured in 51 points in a game as a sophomore against Gilbert Perry and Markus Howard (Marquette).

Sarah who is playing at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York had a successful freshman season appearing in 33 games and starting 19. Prior to Marist, Sarah and the Seton Catholic Prep captured the first 4A Conference girls basketball state championship title leading to a 29–4 record.

Julia, "who is now playing at Colgate, left Seton two years ago with more than 1,458 points and another state championship, leading the school to a 32–3 record." "She holds the school's all-time rebounding (1,390) and blocked shots (282) records."

Alex Barcello (born August 31, 1998) is an American college basketball player for the BYU Cougars of the West Coast Conference (WCC).

Barcello was born in the metropolitan area of Phoenix, Arizona, to Edward and Shelli Barcello, who were both former basketball players. Edward "led the state in scoring his senior year at Phoenix Brophy Prep in 1987, graduating with more than 1,000 career points and second only to future Duke star and NBA player Mark Alarie (1982) as the school's all-time leading scorers." Shelli "was the leading rebounder and second-leading scorer on Canyon del Oro's undefeated state championship girls team in 1986-87." Barcello started playing basketball when he was two. He grew up with his three sisters, Sarah, Amanda and Julia.