Future South Carolina Gamecock Joyce Edwards of Camden High School in Camden, SC was surprised by two-time WNBA All-Star and Dallas Wings forward Satou Sabally with the 2023-24 Gatorade National Girls Basketball Player of the Year Award.
Joyce Edwards, @GamecockWBB commit, winning the 2023-24 Gatorade National Girls Basketball Player of the Year award is dope because she REALLY encapsulates on and off the court excellence. @Gatorade POY is the top honor in HS sports & she joins an ELITE roster that preceded her. pic.twitter.com/glRCWyJkLm
— Arielle (Ari) Chambers (@ariivory) March 28, 2024
Gatorade Player of the Year has a nearly 40-year legacy of celebrating the next generation of top talent in the earliest stages of their greatness. Previous winners include USC’s JuJu Watkins, UCLA’s Kiki Rice and UConn’s Paige Bueckers, just to name a few.
The award itself is a tremendous honor, but it was the way it was presented to Edwards that took her by surprise. Edwards said:
So I was coming back to Camden High School just to get some light shots up for the McDonald’s All-American game that’s coming up. And I see all these people, cameras, news, all my classmates and my teammates. I was like, “What’s going on?” And then I see her (Satou Sabally) with the…
