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Gatorade 2018 - 2019: Player of the Year

Girls Basketball - Michigan

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GIRLS BASKETBALL

Rickea Jackson

Wing
DETROIT EDISON PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY
DETROIT , MICHIGAN
SENIOR
Height: 6-FOOT-3
Press Release

Peak Performance

22

Points per game

6.5

Rebounds per game

1.5

Steals per game

1771

Career Points
“Rickea has a combination of size, athletic ability, skill and court awareness that I have not seen before from a girls basketball player at the high school level. She has a competitive nature about her that combined with her skill-set is just so overwhelming for any opponent.”
Steve Eklund
Head Coach - Head coach of Pewamo-Westphalia High
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Athletic Excellence

The state’s returning Gatorade Player of the Year, the 6-foot-3 senior wing had led the Pioneers to a 20-1 record and a berth in the Division 2, District 59 Tournament semifinals at the time of her selection. Jackson averaged 22.0 points, 6.5 rebounds, 1.5 steals and 1.3 steals through 21 games. A semifinalist for the Naismith Award, Jackson is a McDonald’s All-American Game selection. She entered the postseason with 1,771 points in her prep basketball career.

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Academic Achievement

Jackson has maintained a weighted 3.19 GPA in the classroom. She has signed a national letter of intent to play basketball on scholarship at Mississippi State University beginning this fall.

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Exemplary Character

Jackson has volunteered locally with the Brown Bag Project, which provides lunches for the homeless, and she has donated her time collecting shoes for underprivileged children.