Texas signee, former Mamba Academy star Amalia Holguin (Sage Hill) drops 64 points on senior night

Any way you slice it, Sage Hill senior point guard Amalia Holguin is one of the most decorated players in high school basketball.

And the 4-star Texas signee's lengthy list of accomplishments just got even more impressive with one resume bullet rarely achieved at any level of basketball: a 60-piece, which she achieved with room to spare.

Holguin dropped 64 points with an Orange County record of 14 made three-pointers on Tuesday – Sage Hill's senior night – in a 101-26 blowout of Laguna Beach. The outing also put Holguin past the 2,000-point mark for her high school career.

"I wanted to show the crowd a little something special," Holguin later told the OC Register (video below).

"I went in just trying to have fun, but then that happened, so I'm just grateful for the opportunity."

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The win was Sage Hill's 17th in a row and brought the Lightening to 22-4. They followed it up with a 65-50 win over Rosary Academy the next day to clinch an undisputed Pacific Coast League title.

Holguin, a 5-foot-9 lead guard ranked 57th in the Class of 2026 by ESPN SportsCenter Next and 56th by 247Sports, entered high school long known as one of the most highly-touted players in her classification. Before she ever played for Sage Hill, Holguin played two grade levels/classifications up as the starting point guard for Kobe Bryant's Mamba Sports Academy club team alongside Gianna Bryant and the future core of Sage Hill's star-studded 2024 senior class.

Her 64-point outburst came one day after the six-year anniversary of the fatal helicopter crash that claimed the lives of Kobe Bryant, Gigi Bryant, and seven others.

Holguin made her high school debut in the 2022-23 season when Sage Hill had just won a CIF state Division II championship and was pivotal from day one in the program's continued ascent into a national contender.

With Holguin as its second-leading scorer, Sage Hill made its first CIF-Southern Section Open Division playoff appearance in her freshman year and went 2-1 in Open Division pool play to establish itself as a top-four team in arguably the toughest conference in the nation. The Lightning broke through at a national level in the 2023-24 campaign and maintained a top-40 ranking in the country from start to finish while peaking inside the top 25. Holguin, a sophomore, was the only one of Sage Hill's top six leading scorers who wasn't a senior.

Entering 2024-25, Sage Hill was one of the youngest and least experienced teams among the CIF-SS' upper ranks, but it remained in the Open Division with Holguin leading the way. She had a career year with 14.4 points, 4.1 assists, and 2.3 steals per game as the Lightning won a Division I regional title and came two baskets away from another state crown.

Over the spring and summer of 2025, Holguin once again showed her chops on the club circuit with an electrifying summer for Why Not Premier. She averaged 16.4 PPG to help lead her squad to the Nike EYBL national championship game. And as a senior, she's played her best basketball yet for a Sage Hill team that overcame a rocky start to return to national relevance. With a strong postseason performance, this Sage Hill team could go down as the undisputed best in program history.

While she's long been known for her devastating jump shot with range extending far past the college three-point line, Holguin is far from a three-point specialist. Her abilities to convert from deep off the dribble and get her jumper off in the first place – especially her patented step back – set her apart from the other elite shooters in the Class of 2026. At Sage Hill, Holguin has consistently created for herself and others against top-notch competition and developed into one of California's top passers as well to complement her scoring. Inside the arc, Holguin shows advanced understanding of angles and timing and she uses her underrated strength/physicality to finish through crowds of defenders if a kick-out or dump-off pass isn't available.

Holguin signed with the Texas Longhorns and head coach Vic Schaefer on Nov. 12. Upon her signing in November, Schaefer said he's looking forward to Holguin's instant offense, competitive spirit, and winning pedigree, putting to a tee the qualities that have defined Holguin's basketball career and successes up to this point.