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Gatorade 2022 - 2023: Player of the Year

Girls Basketball - Louisiana

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Mikaylah Williams

Guard
PARKWAY HS
BOSSIER CITY, LOUISIANA
SENIOR
Height: 6-FOOT-1
Press Release

Peak Performance

17.400

Average Points (per game)

4.2

Average Assists (per game)

7.1

Average Rebounds (per game)

2.6

Average Steals (per game)
“Mikaylah is a generational talent. She is very tough to game plan for because of how well-rounded of a player that she is. She can do any and everything on the court. The thing I like most about her is she is a very selfless superstar.”
Keith Greene
Head Coach - head coach of Captain Shreve High
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Athletic Excellence

The state’s returning Gatorade Player of the Year, the 6-foot-1 senior guard had led the Panthers to a 29-5 record and a berth in the Non-Select Division I state championship game at the time of her selection. Williams averaged 17.4 points, 7.1 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 2.6 steals per game through 34 games. A two-time finalist for the Naismith Girls Basketball National Player of the Year award, she is a 2023 McDonald’s All-American Game selection and a member of the Nike Hoop Summit Team USA squad.

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Academic Achievement

Williams has maintained a weighted 4.0 GPA in the classroom. She has signed a national letter of intent to play basketball on scholarship at Louisiana State University this fall.

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Exemplary Character

Williams has volunteered locally at a women and children’s shelter and on behalf of Operation Christmas Child. She has also donated her time as part of multiple community service initiatives with her church youth group.