Vote: Who should be SBLive’s South Carolina High School Girls Basketball Player of the Week (3/4/2024)?

Here are 10 players for your voting consideration

Mike Duprez | Mar 4, 2024

Vote: Who should be SBLive’s South Carolina High School Girls Basketball Player of the Week (3/4/2024)? /

We have 10 players nominated this week for SBLive’s South Carolina Girls Basketball Player of the Week from Feb. 26-March 2 and we ask you, the fans, to help decide who should indeed be the top athlete selected. Voting will conclude on Sunday, March 9 at 11:59 p.m. and the winner will be announced in next week’s poll.

Congratulations to last week's winner: Jalyn Almeida of Cathedral Academy.

Here are this week's nominees:

Tamia Watkins, Andrew Jackson

The 6-foot-1 junior forward/guard put on a dominating performance as the Volunteers rolled past Landrum 78-60 to win the 2-A state championship. Watkins had 26 points, 19 rebounds and 5 assists.

Jaleya Ford, Lake View

Ford had 21 points, 5 rebounds, 4 steals and 5 blocked shots as the Wild Gators held off Denmark-Olar 49-46 to win the 1-A state championship. The 5-foot-6 senior got a steal and hit the game-tying shot with 1:03 left and put Lake View ahead to stay on a layup with 29 seconds remaining.

Joyce Edwards, Camden

The South Carolina signee had one last game to play in her high school career and it was a dandy. Edwards scored 27 points – 61 percent of her team’s total – and grabbed 20 rebounds as the Bulldogs pounded Wren 44-22 to win the 3-A state championship, their second in a row. She also blocked 6 shots and had 3 steals.

Rickell Brown, Sumter

Brown had a superb game as the undefeated Gamecocks whipped Rock Hill 60-42 to win the 5-A state championship. The senior guard scored 20 points, including a perfect 9-of-9 from the free throw line.

Elly Trickett, Riverside

Trickett was a force inside with 16 points and 16 rebounds in Riverside’s 62-32 romp over A.C. Flora in the 4-A state championship game.

Araina Ross, Sumter

Ross is just an eighth grader – and one of the best players on a great team. The 5-foot-7 forward had 17 points and 7 rebounds in the state championship game.

Ayona Alexander, Andrew Jackson

Alexander, a sophomore forward, had 20 points and 8 rebounds in the state championship game.

Aveion Walker, Denmark-Olar

The 5-foot-8 junior had 24 points and 14 rebounds in the state championship game.

Kyndal Haroski, Riverside

Haroski had 14 points, 5 rebounds and 4 steals in the state championship game.

Gwendasia Page, Lake View

Page had 14 points, 8 points, 3 assists, and 5 steals in the state championship.

Published Mar 4, 2024

MIKE DUPREZ

Mike Duprez became a freelance sports journalist for Scorebooklive.com several months after retiring from the newspaper business. A native of Oakland, California, Duprez moved around as a child due to his father’s service in the United States Marine Corps. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. Duprez, who lives in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had 30 years of experience in newspapers as well as other endeavors before retiring at the end of 2021. He covers stories in both North Carolina and South Carolina for Scorebooklive.com.