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The Jaguars’ 6-3 center was helping her high school coach, Rachel Goodale, run a summer basketball camp at Jackson Memorial and would rejoin her high school teammates playing in the Belmar Summer League.

“I think I had a good series of games in Las Vegas,” Evans said. “I feel I’m improving game by game. I’m running the court better. My quickness is better. I’m rebounding better and getting stronger.”

She also would continue sifting through her mail from NCAA Division I basketball recruiters from coast to coast that Evans says ranges from Florida to Maine to California and Kentucky. And there is the Princeton team camp that Jackson Memorial’s girls will attend Aug. 7-9, as well as workouts in the gym two days a week as the Jaguars prepare to encore a 23-4 season that included an unbeaten run in the Shore Conference A South Division.

“I want to take my [college] visits in August, so I’ll be planning them in these upcoming weeks,” said Evans, who also still has AAU basketball showcases left in July in Washington, D.C., on July 22 and Augusta, S.C., four days later. She has also played in showcases this spring and summer in Hampton, Va., Dallas and Los Angeles.

“The recruiting is not that bad, and actually it has gotten easier as it all becomes clear. I’m getting there. By the end of August, I want to get it down to the top five

schools],” she said.

To some people, it may seem odd for a major college recruit to want to visit virtually empty college campuses before most of the enrolled students and many of the athletes are there.

“I’d rather look at a campus where there are not as many students to see what it’s really like,” Evans said.

She wants to decide on her college destination before the start of her senior basketball season. In fact, the sooner the better, because Evans will also play volleyball again this fall.