Just a few weeks after moving to Westwood, the incoming Blue Inn added the final trophy to the shelves before entering college ranks.
Kiki Rice, a female basketball freshman guard at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been selected as the MaxPreps National Female High School Athlete of the Year. Outlet announced on Tuesday.. The award was given to the country’s top high school girls athletes in all sports, and Rice won that distinction thanks to her efforts on the court and pitch.
“It’s a great honor to win this award,” Rice told MaxPreps on the phone at Team USA Basketball Camp in Colorado. “We had a very nice year in basketball, and I didn’t trade it for anything, but I’m very happy that I was particular about football. It’s multiple sports and full exercise Gives verification that you are a player. “
According to espnW, Rice is the second girl basketball rookie in the country and has a consensus five-star outlook. The 5-foot 11 guard led the Quakers to a 30-0 record and national championship with an average of 15.8 points, 7.0 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game at Sidwell Friends (DC).
At the beginning of this off-season, Rice won the Gatorade Player of the Year and Naismith the Player of the Year. All of that led to the rice in the McDonald’s All-American game in Chicago. There she won a co-MVP with her UCLA companion, Gabriella Jakez.
Rice and Jakes are two of Kori Klaus’s national top recruitment-class headliners and have participated in a program that created four Sweet 16 and one elite eight in the last seven postseasons.
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Rice’s fourth-grade basketball aspect was only half the equation for this year’s winning female athlete, as she was also good at playing soccer for Sidwell Friends.
Rice led the Quakers with 15 goals and ended his football career with 97 goals in 51 games. Her success in both sports helped put Rice above her other 11 finalists at the MaxPreps awards.
Rice has joined other basketball stars who have won in the past, such as Neka, Cinenie Ogumike, and Page Boukers, to win the honor. Following in their footsteps represents the future of the WNBA, in addition to the award-winning laundry list at the university level.
Rice has a chance to win his third gold medal with Team USA at the Women’s American Championships in Argentina this month and will soon be joining the Bruins.
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