Which is to say, 2009 is the year for which we've all been waiting.

For the first time since HoopGurlz began ranking women's college-basketball prospects, we have a post player, 6-foot-5 Kelsey Bone of Stafford, Texas, at No. 1. Not only that, our No. 2, 6-7 Brittney Griner of Houston, also is a post. As are four of our top six ranked players in 2009.

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The HoopGurlz Super Sixty is just our first salvo for the 2009 class. It is the longest list yet that we have released in advance of a class' actual recruiting year.

Monique Oliver

Making it even more unique, nine of our top 25 in 2009 are posts. By contrast, only three of our top 25 in 2008 were posts; in fact, our HoopGurlz Hundred for 2008 had just 11 posts in all. In 2007, there were only 10.

Speaking of connections, Bone and 6-3 Monique Oliver of Las Vegas, Nev., who is ranked No. 5 overall, have been club teammates the past two years. So not only have college coaches been seeing post prospects for a change, they've frequently been seeing double.

Erinn Thompson

In addition to numbers, the top posts of 2009 are not just big girls who are playing near the basket. Most have accomplished, back-to-basket skills - the habit of sitting down on their postups, an understanding of balance and leverage, moves and counters, as well as the ability to pass out of double- and triple-teams. Some, such as 6-3 Erinn Thompson of Winston-Salem, N.C., add the dimension of above-average ballhandling and middle- to long-range shooting.

Brittney Griner

Glenn Nelson is the publisher of HoopGurlz.com. He also founded and coached the Dragons and Northwest HoopGurlz select girl's basketball teams. Glenn previously was the editor-in-chief at Scout.com and a longtime, national-award-winning basketball columnist and writer for The Seattle Times. His work also has appeared in several books and national magazines. He is co-author of "Rising Stars: The Ten Best Players in the NBA" (Rosen Publishing, 2002). For more on Glenn's World, click here. He can be reached at glenn@hoopgurlz.com.

Chris Hansen is the National Director of Scouting for Womens Basketball at HoopGurlz.com. He leads the panel that evaluates and ranks girl's basketball prospects nationally for HoopGurlz. Chris has been involved in the womens basketball community since 1998 as a coach, trainer, evaluator and reporter. He can be reached at chris@hoopgurlz.com.

Veronica Algeo coached Fencor to three straight AAU National Championship Game appearances, winning in 2004 and 2005. She served as a varsity assistant coach for nine seasons at Lansdale (Pa.) Catholic High School, which won five conference titles during that period. Veronica also coached junior-high basketball at St. Michael Indian School, on the Navajo Reservation in St. Michaels, Ariz., for two season, taking a previously winless program and helping them to an undefeated league championship in her second year. She played collegiately at Division III Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pa., where she was among the nation's assist loeaders through her senior season and finished as the school's all-time leader in assists for both career and season.