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San Diego State has signed three high school all-Americans and a 6-foot-6 community college transfer to national letters of intent, Coach Beth Burns said Tuesday.

Two of SDSU’s newcomers will be twins Falisha and Lakeysha Wright, 5-6 guards who led John F. Kennedy High (Paterson, N.J.) to a combined 116-5 record, three state championship appearances and one state championship in four years.

Falisha, a Parade all-American, averaged 28.9 points a game as a senior. Lakeysha, named all-state in each of the past three years and a Street and Smith honorable mention all-American after her junior season, averaged 14.5 points. The Wright sisters visited Rutgers, Maryland and Old Dominion before selecting SDSU.

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“They were the final piece of the puzzle,” Burns said. “They ensure that we have our backcourt of the ‘90s.”

Joining them will be Maryke de Vries, a 6-6 center from Haarlem, Holland, and Jennifer Johnson, a 6-2 forward. De Vries averaged 11 points, seven rebounds and 3.5 blocks a game as a sophomore at Illinois Central College and set a record with 97 blocks last season. She visited USC before choosing SDSU.

Johnson, a USA Today Honorable Mention all-American, averaged 20.7 points and 7.5 rebounds.

“I’m thrilled,” Burns said. “We had to look to sign six people we targeted who we wanted in the beginning, and we got them.”

The four join Castle Park’s Christina Murguia and Michelle Suman, of Wheat Ridge, Colo., who committed with the Aztecs in the early signing period in November.

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