D1 All-State
“Summer and Indya will certainly go down as the best female basketball players to walk the hallways of West Bloomfield High School. What separates them from others is their work ethic and the will to win,” McAllister said of the University of Georgia signees.
Indya Davis earned firstteam All-State honors, along with Holland West Ottawa’s Gabby Reynolds, Byron Center’s Lily Zeinstra and Salem’s Madison Morson — the top three in the Miss Basketball voting — as well as Rockford’s Anna Wypych, Belleville’s Sydney Savoury, Detroit Renaissance’s Anaya Hardy, Temperance-Bedford’s Victoria Gray, Grosse Pointe South’s Maddy Benard and Lowell’s Braxcynn Baker. Belleville’s Jason Wilkens and Bedford’s Bill Ryan shared coach of the year honors.
Indya Davis averaged 15.3 points, 7.6 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 3.7 steals per game for West Bloomfield, which won a second state title in three seasons.
Farmington Hills Mercy’s Aizlyn Albanese (18.6 points, 5.2 rebounds, 2.0 assists per game) and South Lyon East’s Anna Lassan (20 points, 10.7 rebounds, 2.2 assists, 3.5 steals per game, 14 double-doubles) earned second-team honors. Lakeland’s Mike Leitheim was honorable mention coach of the year after leading the Eagles to a school-record 20 wins, a share of a first-ever Lakes Valley Conference title, part of the program’s first time winning both a league and district title in the same season.
Player of the Year
Summer Bloomfield
All-State
Davis, West
• Summer Davis, West Bloomfield, Sr.
• Gabby Reynolds, Holland West Ottawa, Sr.
• Lily Zeinstra, Byron Center, Sr.
• Anna Wypych, Rockford, Jr.
• Indya Davis, West Bloomfield, Sr.
• Sydney Savoury, Belleville, Fr.
• Anaya Hardy, Detroit Renaissance, Sr.
• Madison Morson, Salem, Sr.
• Victoria Gray, Temperance-Bedford, Jr.
• Maddy Benard, Grosse Pointe South, Jr.
• Braxcynn Baker, Lowell,
Sr.
Co-Coach of the Year
• Jason Wilkens, Belleville.
• Bill Ryan, Temperance-Bedford.
Second-Team All-State
(nominees receiving at least two votes)
• Mariah Sain, Muskegon, Soph.
• Lexi Ringley, Saginaw Heritage, Sr.
• Anna Lassan, South Lyon East, Sr.
• Payton Pudlowski, Temperance-Bedford, Sr.
• Colleena Bryant, Wayne Memorial, Jr.
• Alena Blumberg, Dexter, Jr.
• Tayla Dillard, Kalamazoo Central, Sr.
• Lucia France, Traverse City Central, Jr.
• Aizlyn Albanese, Farmington Hills Mercy, Jr.
• Anayya Davis, Utica Ford II, Jr.
• Piper Risdon, Lowell, Sr.
Coach
• Kyle Theisen, Midland Dow, Coach
Honorable Mention (nominees receiving one vote)
• Keira Roehm, Saline, Soph.
• Macy Searles, Portage Central, Sr.
• Iliana Williams, Port Huron, Sr.
• Christian Sanders, Detroit Renaissance, Sr.
• Mara Mitchell, Jackson Northwest, Sr.
• Camiyah Bonner, Muskegon, Sr.
• Madi Uyl, DeWitt, Jr.
• Tara Kurncz, DeWitt, Jr.
• Brooklyn Tornes, Muskegon Reeths-Puffer, Sr.
• Sienna Wolfe, Rockford, Soph.
• Santana Eubanks, East Kentwood, Sr.
• Kayla Mount, Detroit Cass Tech, Sr.
Coach
Mike Leitheim, White Lake Lakeland.
Voting panel: Doug Donnelly, Adrian Daily Telegram; Bill Broderick, Battle Creek Enquirer; Brian Calloway, Lansing State Journal; James Cook, Traverse City Record-Eagle; David Goricki, Detroit News; Jason Juno, Ironwood Daily Globe;
Fred Kelly, Midland Daily News; Brandon Watson, Sturgis Journal; Matthew Mowery, Oakland Press; Patrick Nothaft, Grand Rapids Press; Brenden Welper from the Port Huron Times Herald; Ben Sanders, Hearald-Palladium, Benton Harbor; Tom Green, Huron Daily Tribune, Bad Axe;
Josh VanDyke, Muskeon Chronicle; Eric Ingles, Jackson-Citizen Patriot.