Camden star Joyce Edwards has had fairly the highschool profession. From profitable back-to-back state championships and committing to the South Carolina Gamecocks, the No. 2 ranked senior within the nation not too long ago added one other accolade to her resume: she’s now this 12 months’s 2023-24 Gatorade Nationwide Ladies Basketball Participant.
The distinguished honor, which was introduced on Thursday, was offered to her by two-time WNBA All-Star and Dallas Wings ahead Satou Sabally, who shocked her in Camden HS’s gymnasium alongside her mother and father, teammates and her coach, Natalie Funderburk, who gained Gatorade South Carolina Ladies Basketball Participant of the 12 months in ’92.
“I’m simply honored and grateful simply to be ready,” Edwards instructed WSLAM’s Madison Firle. “I imply, even to be thought-about for this title is an achievement in itself. However for Gatorade to contemplate me the perfect ladies basketball participant in my class is it’s simply loopy. I’ve no phrases for it. I’m simply completely happy that different folks see the work that I’ve put into the sport.”
Edwards is a standout ahead who can knock down photographs and put up huge time numbers. As she will get prepared for the following degree, stars like Sabally already can inform her future is vivid:
“She’s gonna make an affect on ladies’s basketball, inspiring the following era and actually, you realize, giving younger ladies [something to look up to],” Sabally says, later including: “We at all times have a look at stats, however South Carolina clearly has a profitable tradition. And, you realize, including an asset like [Joyce] will drive that profitable tradition ahead. I imply, Daybreak Staley doesn’t recruit calmly. And he or she will certainly choose gamers which are price of the legacy that they’re constructing. So I’m simply tremendous enthusiastic about that.”
All photos might be credited to: Gatorade Participant of the 12 months / Joe Greer