The list of outstanding boys basketball players in the history of Post Falls High goes back quite a ways.

The current Post Falls boys coach, Mike McLean, is a former Trojan player who grew up in Post Falls and has had family here for decades.

“I have talked to many people who have watched Post Falls basketball for a long time,” McLean said. “My list of the greats are Dave Schlotthauer (early 1960s), Tim Coles (mid 70s), Scott Floch (late 80s), Shawn Reid, Connor Hill and Marcus Colbert (2010-12).”

And then there’s the most recent Trojan standout, 6-foot-7 senior forward Jake Pfennigs, who quietly has become the school’s all-time leading rebounder (692) and is fifth all-time in scoring (1,033 points).

He’s been the leader of the Trojan squad the past two seasons, a squad that, with nearly everyone back from last year’s team that lost in the state semifinals, has its sights set on winning a state 5A championship in March.

“In my personal opinion, Scott Floch was the greatest,” McLean said, “but I believe Jake has the potential to surpass them all.”

Thing is, basketball isn’t even Pfennigs’ most accomplished sport.

With his lanky frame, easy motion and a fastball that has been measured at 92 mph, college baseball coaches and pro scouts have definitely taken notice — and have for years.

Pfennigs is signed to play baseball at Oregon State next season. But he could also be selected in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in June.

“People see me in public, being 6-7 and say, ‘Do you play basketball?’, Pfennigs said. “Yep, I play basketball, but I also play baseball too.”

PFENNIGS COMES from an athletic family.

Jake’s dad, Dusty, played football, basketball and baseball at C.M. Russell High in Great Falls, Mont.

His mom, Michelle, competed in basketball and track at Flathead High in Kalispell.

His older brother, Joey, played football, basketball and baseball at Post Falls High. A quarterback for the Trojans, he redshirted one season at NAIA Carroll College in Helena, Mont., before opting to focus on academics. Now 21, he recently graduated from Carroll after 3 1/2 years, and is engaged to Payton Allert, daughter of Post Falls girls basketball coach Marc Allert.

“His older brother is probably one of his biggest fans,” Dusty Pfennigs said. “I don’t think little brother probably knows that. Big brother, being away at college, always wants to know how he’s doing.”

McLean remembers coaching Jake when he was a fifth-grader, holding his own on a seventh-grade AAU team that included McLean’s son, Blake.

Jake remembers playing more basketball than baseball during those days.

“Basketball, growing up, was always my thing,” said Jake, who was born in Coeur d’Alene and raised in Post Falls. “When I was younger I begged my parents to move down to North Carolina so I could play for Duke or North Carolina.”

That idea didn’t gain much traction with the folks.

Jake threw in the low 70s on the Post Falls Little League all-star team that in 2012 advanced to the championship game of the Northwest Regional in San Bernardino, Calif., before losing to a team from Oregon in a game where the winner advanced to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa.

Dusty coached that team, as he did the 2009 Post Falls team, in which Joey played on, that also advanced to San Bernardino.

After Little League, Jake played travel ball, first for a Post Falls team, then the Spokane Crew, then the Club Spokane Dodgers.

In the summer after his freshman year, he began to really get noticed on the baseball diamond.

An area scout for the Seattle Mariners noticed him when he was 13, playing in a tournament where the scout was coaching his son’s team.

He was invited to a tournament in Florida when he was 14, a tourney attended by college coaches.

He’s played in other tournaments across the country. He’s played in area-code games, put on by Major League Baseball for incoming seniors. He was invited before his junior year and his senior year.

Last July, Jake was one of 80 players nationwide who was invited to the USA Baseball national training complex in Cary, N.C., for the Tournament of Stars, a de facto tryout for the 18U national team.

He was there for five days, and pitched four innings on the last day.

“I was the only one from Idaho,” he said. “I got called ‘Idaho.’”

Dusty said Jake was hitting 86 on the radar gun when he was 14, and touching 90 when he was 15.

“And they (the scouts) can dream about what he’s going to be like when he’s 23-25 years old,” Dusty said.

Eventually, Northwest colleges were interested — Washington State, Washington, Gonzaga, etc. Later on, schools from all over the country — ACC, SEC, Big Ten and Pac-12 schools — were interested.

Early on, Jake was seriously considering playing at Oregon State.

The summer before his junior year, his club team played at a tournament in California. Some schools in the Southwest noticed him.

One was Arizona State. He made an unofficial visit to Tempe and “fell in love with the campus and coaches,” he said.

He verbally committed to the Sun Devils in October of his junior year.

Then he said he heard about a little bit of turmoil going on among the coaching staff and players at ASU. He decommitted last summer, announcing the decision on social media.

Not surprisingly, that night he got a call from Oregon State.

“They weren’t happy at first when I committed to ASU, but they kinda knew something was going on,” Jake said.

He signed with the Beavers in November.

“He has really kept himself grounded, and enjoying high school,” Michelle said.

Pfennigs is a three-pitch pitcher (fastball, curveball, changeup) right now, but figures he’ll add a pitch or two as he moves up the ladder.

His high school coach, Mick Zeller, has watched Jake for years. Zeller was an assistant on Jake’s team that went to San Bernardino in 2012.

“He’s 6-7, which you can’t teach or coach,” Zeller said. “Throws hard, always around the plate, which is good, and also bad because hitters know it’s going to be close. He’s not going to be all over the place.”

In that respect, Zeller said it might help Jake to become “effectively wild,” as well as mix in some off-speed pitches.

“He’s been throwing hard since he was 11 or 12, when we were in San Bernardino, so that’s not the issue,” Zeller said. “It’s locating that fastball, and getting your off-speed over for a strike, so now they can’t sit on fastballs. They can’t just take your curveball.”

MEANWHILE, JAKE was carving out a pretty nice career as a rare four-year varsity player with the Post Falls High basketball team.

As a freshman, he averaged 4.1 points and 2.9 rebounds off the bench for a Trojan team led by Max McCullough and Dalton Thompson that won the state title in 2015.

As a sophomore, Pfennigs averaged 11.4 points and 7.6 rebounds for the Trojans, who lost in a state 5A play-in game.

Last year, he averaged 16.2 points and 10.2 boards for a Post Falls team that won the 5A Inland Empire League before eventually finishing fifth at state.

“His junior year is when Jake became the identity of the team,” McLean said. “With graduation and very good players moving on, Jake was the guy for the program. We tailored our offensive sets around his abilities and his game flourished. Last year was a breakout season for him numbers-wise, but anyone watching him his first two years should have expected it. Jake had a very special season last year.”

This year, he’s averaging 16.9 points and 12.2 rebounds for the Trojans (13-5, 4-0 5A IEL).

“This year, Jake has matured physically a bunch and his overall strength has allowed him to continue to improve, especially on the defensive end,” McLean said. “Jake no longer gets moved off his spots on the court and that has allowed him to take the next step as a player.”

In December, Post Falls competed at the Jerry Tarkanian Classic in Las Vegas, taking on teams from all over the country. The Trojans went 2-2 in a 16-team division that was considered to have the most elite teams in the tourney.

McLean said coaches from two Pac-12 schools asked him about Pfennigs, after he had dominated against some nationally highly-ranked teams featuring nationally highly-ranked players.

Pretty good for a “baseball player” who now plays basketball in the offseason.

“Jake is a great baseball player. If he was not, he would not have so many different options when it comes to baseball,” McLean said. “If Jake had basketball as his top priority, he would have as many options as he did with baseball. Jake is the best player in the state of Idaho, probably has been for the last two years. Jake plays basketball seriously 3-4 months a year. I am OK with that (Jake being busy playing baseball) but Jake has barely scratched his full potential as a basketball player.”

That got Pfennigs to thinking. He asked McLean if it was possible to play both sports in college.

“We talked about it, and I did some research, and found it wasn’t really possible,” Pfennigs said. “If there was a possible chance of me playing both, I would try.”

Heck, while he was at it, maybe he could turn out for the Beavers’ football team. After all, on a whim, this past fall, he turned out for football for the first time since fourth grade, and was an effective wide receiver on a Post Falls team that started 8-0 and reached the state playoffs.

“I was a wreck,” Michelle said when she heard he turned out for football last fall. “But he said, ‘I don’t want to look back and regret anything.’”

“I love both sports,” Pfennigs said. “I’m going to miss basketball, but I’m excited for baseball.”

Marcus Colbert (1,407) is the school’s all-time scoring leader. No. 2 is Scott Stockwell (1,398), followed by Connor Hill (1,278) and Max McCullough (1,116).

“Depending on how Jake finishes this season out, in my opinion, Jake may be the best basketball player that has ever played at Post Falls High School,” McLean said.

THING IS, despite being 6-7, Pfennigs doesn’t attract a lot of attention to himself. He’d just as soon trade the accolades for, say, playing Fortnite with his basketball teammates on PlayStation4 or Xbox.

Then again, with that size and that shoulder-length hair, which has been growing out since his last full haircut in October of his freshman year, he’s hard to miss.

“There’s not a story; I don’t know why it’s long,” Pfennigs said. “Dad doesn’t like it, though.”

Dad confirms this.

“Mom said ‘I didn’t expect to have a kid grow up and be put in pony tails,’” Jake said with a laugh.

Michelle said she’s had to leave the gym to go buy headbands of different colors so Jake has one that corresponds with the color of his jersey that day.

“Here I have a son, and I have to go buy headbands and ponytail holders for him,” Michelle said with a laugh.

Now Jake carries a bountiful supply of headbands of different colors in his bag, just in case.

Jake said he’ll probably cut his hair at the beginning of summer (and possibly donate the hair to Locks of Love, which makes wigs for patients who have lost their hair), before he heads off to college — or wherever.

That could be as difficult a decision for him as choosing a barber.

Not only did Jake have to go through all the home visits from college coaches, now scouts from major league teams are interested. Michelle said all but about eight major league teams have expressed interest, and representatives from roughly a half-dozen teams have visited so far.

Baseball Northwest ranks him the No. 1 pro prospect in the Idaho/Montana/Wyoming region.

“Do you want to go to college, or do you want to play professional baseball?,” Dusty Pfennigs said. “He wants to play professional baseball; it’s just whether you start it when you’re 18 or when you’re 21.”

“If he goes high enough (in the draft), I think that number (signing bonus) would make that decision for him,” Zeller said.