19 Days Until the State Girls Basketball Announcement
Gatorade 2023 - 2024: Player of the Year

Girls Basketball - Arizona

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Wrenwyck "Shay" Ijiwoye

Point Guard
DESERT VISTA HS
PHOENIX, ARIZONA
SENIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-6
Press Release

Peak Performance

15

Average Points (per game)

7.4

Average Rebounds (per game)

5.100

Average Assists (per game)

4

Average Steals (per game)
“I believe Shay Ijiwoye is the absolute clear choice this year. She played one of the toughest schedules in the state, leading her team in almost every category. Knowing how important character is on and off the court to the Gatorade award, Shay absolutely checks those boxes. There are other good candidates in Arizona, for sure, but in my eyes, it’s clear-cut that Shay has set herself apart.”
Curtis Andrew
Head Coach - head coach of Perry High
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Athletic Excellence

The 5-foot-6 senior guard averaged 15 points, 7.4 rebounds, 5.1 assists and four steals per game this past season, leading the Thunder (24-6) to the Open State Championship title game. Ranked as the nation’s No. 44 recruit in the Class of 2024 by espnW, Ijiwoye was also the 2024 Class 6A Central Region Player of the Year. She shot 53 percent from inside the arc and 39 percent from 3-point range in her final scholastic season, and was named the Nike Tournament of Champions Most Outstanding Player in 2022.

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Academic Achievement

Ijiwoye has maintained an 4.39 weighted GPA in the classroom. She has signed a national letter of intent to play basketball on scholarship at Stanford University this fall.

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Exemplary Character

Ijiwoye has volunteered locally on behalf of Feed My Starving children, Paz de Cristo and Action Rebuild Liberia. She is a devoted parishioner of her 29:11 Church community and assists with children’s day care every Sunday. The co-president of her school’s Christian Youth Alive club and treasurer of the Heart to Heart club, she also donates her time to the Night to Shine prom for special needs students.