{"id":8520,"date":"2026-02-21T09:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/?p=8520"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:31:24","slug":"2026-mr-and-miss-basketball-finalists-announced-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/?p=8520","title":{"rendered":"2026 Mr. and Miss Basketball Finalists Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>Awards to be presented on Tuesday, March 10<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mr. and Miss Basketball Awards will be presented to the top girls and boys in six classifications of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association at the Tucker Theater on the campus of MTSU on Tuesday, March 10 at 5:30 p.m. The event will be open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A statewide committee of sportswriters selected winners based on performance during the 2025-2026 regular season. Academics and character were also taken into consideration. High school head basketball coaches and members of the media nominated the finalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the 41st year that the Mr. and Miss Basketball Awards have been presented to Tennessee\u2019s best high school basketball players. American General was the sponsor of the event since the inception of the awards in 1986 until 2001. The Memphis Grizzlies were sponsors of the awards from 2002-2004. From 2005-2015 the Mr. and Miss Basketball Awards were presented at the conclusion of each respective championship game as part of the post-game trophy ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Division II-A Miss Basketball Finalists<br><\/strong>Haylen Ayers, University School of Jackson<br>Kayte Madison Bjornstad, Providence Christian Academy<br>Jules Ferrell, Middle Tennessee Christian School<br><br><strong>Division II-AA Miss Basketball Finalists<br><\/strong>Meeyah Green, Webb School of Knoxville<br>Ava Jarrett, Lipscomb Academy<br>Ava Jones, Hutchison School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Class 1A Miss Basketball Finalists<br><\/strong>Laila Downs-Darden, McEwen High School<br>Rayanna Fisher, Greenfield High School<br>Zoey Nicholas, Pickett County High School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Class 2A Miss Basketball Finalists<br><\/strong>Maliyah Glasper, Gatlinburg-Pittman High School<br>Wylie Kee, Huntingdon High School<br>Kaegan Young, Cascade High School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Class 3A Miss Basketball Finalists<br><\/strong>Andrea Flores, Daniel Boone High School<br>Chelby Jordan, Dyersburg High School<br>Sydney Wilhite, Cumberland County High School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Class 4A Miss Basketball Finalists<br><\/strong>Cecilie Brandimore, Franklin High School<br>Kimora Fields, Bradley Central High School<br>Natalya Hodge, Bearden High School<br><br><strong>Division II-A Mr. Basketball Finalists<br><\/strong>Lawson Lee, Battle Ground Academy<br>Segond Sompa, Grace Christian Academy<br>Christopher Washington, Jr., Providence Christian Academy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Division II-AA Mr. Basketball Finalists<br><\/strong>Cade Murphy, Knoxville Catholic High School<br>Trey Pearson, Pope Saint John Paul II Preparatory School<br>Fred Smith, Jr., Briarcrest Christian School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Class 1A Mr. Basketball Finalists<br><\/strong>Camden Cole, Eagleville High School<br>Will McCrary, Jackson County High School<br>Darion Taylor, Humboldt High School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Class 2A Mr. Basketball Finalists<br><\/strong>Jayden Barton, Gatlinburg-Pittman High School<br>Derrick Roberson, Chattanooga Preparatory School<br>Jackson Simmons, Unicoi County High School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Class 3A Mr. Basketball Finalists<br><\/strong>Ty Cobb, Upperman High School<br>Nick Steen, Fulton High School<br>Markylon Terry, Fayette-Ware Comprehensive High School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Class 4A Mr. Basketball Finalists<br><\/strong>Justin Frison, Houston High School<br>DJ Okoth, Bartlett High School<br>Cutter Sisk, Beech Senior High School<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awards to be presented on Tuesday, March 10 The Mr. and Miss Basketball Awards will be presented to the top girls and boys in six classifications of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association at the Tucker Theater on the campus of MTSU on Tuesday, March 10 at 5:30 p.m. The event will be open to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8522,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions\/8522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}