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Gatorade 2022 - 2023: Player of the Year

Girls Basketball - Florida

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Taliah Scott

Guard
ST. JOHNS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
ORANGE PARK, FLORIDA
SENIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-9
Press Release

Peak Performance

36.200

Average Points (per game)

4.8

Average Assists (per game)

9.200

Average Rebounds (per game)

3

Average Steals (per game)
“Taliah is a phenomenal basketball player and is very difficult to stop. What separates her on the court is that she is a scoring threat from all three levels. Her ability to shoot the 3-ball, get to the rim and knock down the mid-range jumper make her very hard to guard.”
Wyatt Walker
Head Coach - head coach of the Episcopal School of Jacksonville
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Athletic Excellence

The 5-foot-9 senior guard averaged 36.2 points and 9.2 rebounds per game this past season, leading the Spartans (19-6) to the Class 2A state semifinals. Scott also recorded 4.8 assists and 3.0 steals per game and sank 109 baskets from 3-point range, including 11 in the team’s 77-65 state semifinal loss to Faith Christian High. A McDonald’s High School All-American Game selection, she was the 2022 Class 2A Player of the Year. She concluded her prep basketball career with 2,733 points.

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Academic Achievement

Scott has maintained a weighted 4.32 GPA in the classroom. She has signed a national letter of intent to play basketball on scholarship at the University of Arkansas this fall.

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Exemplary Character

Scott has volunteered more than 100 hours of her time teaching the game of basketball to young girls at summer camps, weekend training sessions and the local YMCA. She has also donated her time at the Ronald McDonald House of Central Florida and as a peer mentor.