About 11 years ago, I got a call from a man who had moved to Chandler, Arizona from New York. He explained that he had spent the last couple of decades calling minor league baseball games all over the country, that he was a big high school and college football fan, and he was looking to see if mine and Chilly’s fledgling prep sports website needed any help.

I told him I was looking to start a podcast covering high school sports in Chandler, and he jumped in with both feet.

That man’s name is Brett Quintyne, and I’m excited to have Season 12 of the C-Town Rivals Podcast move to its new home on Sports360AZ for the 2024 season.

For anyone that isn’t familiar with Brett’s work calling various games, or co-hosting the Saturday Morning AZPreps365 show alongside Jose Garcia and Zach Alvira, I figured this would be a great opportunity to get to know him by asking him about one of his favorite subjects; Chandler-area athletes.

Here are mine and Brett Quintyne’s top 3 most important athletes out of Chandler over the last decade:

Brett Quintyne: Chandler’s Bryce Perkins

Bryce Perkins did win a Super Bowl with the Rams, and not too many guys from the Chandler area have Super Bowl rings, but it’s about much more than that- without Bryce as quarterback for the 2014 Chandler Wolves team, I don’t think they win the state title, and I don’t think that the Chandler Wolves become the dynasty that won five of the next six rings after that. You can argue that he started at all for the Chandler Wolves by getting the first ever win over Hamilton back in 2013, which kicked off the changing of the guard in both the city, and at the 6A level. Bryce means a lot to the community, and embodies the “Ohana” slogan the Wolves live by.

Editor’s Note: University of Virginia fans definitely agree with this

Ralph Amsden: Hamilton’s Preslie Anderson

Hamilton girls volleyball has long been one of the premier programs in the state of Arizona, and Preslie Andlerson might be the best to come through the program, if not the whole city. Anderson was an impact player as a freshman, and helped lead the Huskies to a state title appearance- and then stepped things up her sophomore year with a repeat trip to state, and Arizona Player of the Year honors. She repeated as Player of the Year as a senior, and then went on to become an All-Pac-12 player at University of California, and then helped Baylor reach the third round of the NCAA playoffs as a graduate transfer. Part of the reason I have her on the list of most important athletes of the last decade is her role as an assistant coach at Arizona State University, which seems to have had an immediate impact, with last year’s team accumulating the second most wins in program history.

Brett Quintyne: Perry’s Brock Purdy

Ralph Amsden: Basha’s Demond Williams Jr.

• 13-0
• 188/273 (69% completions)
• 2,820 passing yards
• 25 passing touchdowns
• 2 interceptions
• 961 rushing yards
• 14 rushing touchdowns

Brett Quintyne: Hamilton’s Cody Bellinger

Ralph Amsden: Perry’s Koa Peat

Chandler, Arizona is basically Arizona’s title town, but it took a long time for Perry to join in on the fun when it came to one of the major sports. Back-to-back-to-back hoops championships, as well as the fact that Koa Peat is doing this at a public school in an era when all the elite hoopers attend prep schools makes him one of the most important athletes in state history, much less the city. And we get to see him for another year? When it’s all said and done, Peat could stand alone as #1.