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Gatorade 2020 - 2021: Player of the Year

Girls Basketball - Maine

Gatorade Player of the year

Emily Archibald

Guard/Forward
KENNEBUNK HS
KENNEBUNK, MAINE
SENIOR
Height: 6-FOOT-2
Press Release

Peak Performance

24.6

Points per Game

20.7

Rebounds per Game

3.5

Steals per Game

3.2

Assists per Game
“She’s one of the more transcendent players I have seen in my 15 years. In our game against them this year, it was Wells 50, Emily 37. Fortunately for us, we held the rest of her team to 11 combined.”
Don Abbott
Head Coach head coach at Wells High School

Athletic Excellence

The state’s returning Gatorade Player of the Year, the 6-foot-2 senior wing averaged a points-rebounds double-double (24.6 and 20.7) along with 3.7 blocks, 3.5 steals and 3.2 assists per game for the Rams this past season. A two-time Maine Basketball Rankings Player of the Year who was also named 2021 Miss Maine Basketball, Archibald was a four-year team MVP and four-year captain en route to being the only player in school history to reach 1,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, 200 assists, 200 steals and 200 blocks in her career.

Academic Achievement

Archibald has maintained an A average in the classroom. She has signed a National Letter of Intent to play basketball on scholarship at Providence College this fall.

Exemplary Character

A four-year varsity soccer player and a National Honor Society member, Archibald has donated her time on behalf of Kennebunk High School Girl Talk, a club for mentoring younger female students. She has also volunteered locally as a youth basketball and soccer coach.