Huntington Prep School

Huntington Prep or Huntington St. Joseph Prep is a basketball-focused college preparatory school located in Huntington, West Virginia. It was founded in 2009 by head coach Rob Fulford and his staff. Huntington Prep is unrelated to the public Huntington High School located in the same city.

Huntington Prep is housed within St. Joseph Central Catholic High School, a religious school. The students are regular St. Joseph's students and must abide to the rules and regulations of the high school. After being an accepted part of the school, Huntington Prep is now Huntington St. Joseph Prep (even wearing the St. Joe emblem on the uniforms).

Huntington Prep is one of the top ten basketball programs in the nation and is home to the top high school level players in the world, including 2013 graduate Andrew Wiggins.

All students are considered NCAA Division I prospects and are recruited by some of the top programs in the country. They practice and live in Huntington, WV, with "home" games played at local high schools (predominantly Spring Valley HS), the Cam Henderson Center, St. Joseph High School gym, and formerly at the now demolished Veterans Memorial Fieldhouse.

The team's nickname was the "Express" which was a derivative of the nickname of the former Huntington High School, "Pony Express", and the city's railroad heritage. (The current Huntington High is a consolidation of the original Huntington High and Huntington East High School, and took East's nickname of "Highlanders".) This is not to be confused with Huntington High as HHS is an entire different school (O.J Mayo and Patrick Patterson went to Huntington High). Huntington Prep has now changed their nickname to the "Fighting Irish", the same as St. Joe's other teams.

St. Joseph also fields a boys varsity and boys JV team, and a girls varsity and JV team in basketball. The girls team has won 6 state championships in a row in WV Class A.

The school colors are Carolina Blue and yellow and the team is under contract with Nike.

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