Skylar Diggins

The 5-foot-10 senior guard led the Panthers to a 26-1 record and a runner-up finish in the Class 4A state tournament, where they fell to the nation's number-one-ranked team, Ben Davis of Indianapolis, 71-69. This season, Diggins averaged a state-best 29 points per game, along with 6.3 rebounds, 6.2 assists, 5.4 steals and 2.2 blocked shots. A two-time Gatorade Indiana Girls Basketball Player of the Year, Diggins led the Panthers to state championship games in four consecutive years, including Washington's title-winning season of 2007. A McDonald's All-American Game selection, she finished her career with 2,790 points — the third-highest girls' scoring total in Indiana history — for an average of 25.9 points per game. Also a Women's Basketball Coaches Association All-American Game invitee, Diggins holds school records in career points, single-season points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks.

On the international scene, Diggins was a standout for the USA Women's Under-18 National Team, starting all five games at the 2008 FIBA Under-18 Americas Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and led the United States to a perfect record and gold medal. Diggins averaged 10.8 points on 50-percent shooting from the field, 3.2 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2 steals in 23.2 minutes per game, and ranked among the top 10 in the entire tournament in scoring (10th), field goal percentage (7th), assists (2nd), steals (8th), and assist-to-turnover ratio (2nd).

Diggins has maintained a 3.91 GPA in the classroom. A member of the National Honor Society and a peer mentor at Washington High, she has served as a physician's-assistant intern in her school's Medical Magnet program. Diggins has also volunteered with the national Young Life ministry, and has participated in youth empowerment, leadership and educational-enrichment programs on behalf of her school's Girlfriends Group, as well as the national Educational Talent Search and Project Excel programs.

Diggins has signed a National Letter of Intent to play basketball on scholarship at the University of Notre Dame this fall.