Purcell Marian’s Dee Alexander repeats as Ohio Ms. Basketball

CINCINNATI — The OHSAA announced the Ohio Ms. Basketball player of the year Wednesday, bringing an already familiar face back into the spotlight.

Purcell Marian’s Dee Alexander is once again Ohio Ms. Basketball, this time taking the title as a junior. 

Alexander won the award for the first time as a sophomore last year.

“People think that girls’ basketball is different than boys, but I feel like it’s the same,” Alexander said last year following the award. “Girls can be just as tough as boys and sometimes even tougher so it’s not really a difference to me.”

Cincinnati Purcell Marian junior Dee Alexander was announced as the 2024 Ohio Ms. Basketball Wednesday by a statewide media panel. She won the award last year as a sophomore.

This is the 37th year for the award, having been given by the Associated Press for the first time in 1988. The award has been voted on by the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association since 2017.

Runner-up was Loudonville senior Corri Vermilya, followed by Pickerington Central senior Berry Wallace and Shaker Heights Laurel sophomore Saniyah Hall. 

Other finalists were Whitehouse Anthony Wayne junior Elise Bender, Bloom-Carroll senior Emily Bratton, Springboro junior Bryn Martin and Berlin Hiland senior Ashley Mullet.