Oak Hill's Moses Named POTY

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In its 25th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPN RISE, today announced Courtney Moses of Oak Hill High School as its 2009-10 Gatorade Indiana Girls Basketball Player of the Year. Moses is the first Gatorade Indiana Girls Basketball Player of the Year to be chosen from Oak Hill High School.

The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the court, distinguishes Moses as Indiana’s best high school girls basketball player. Now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Girls Basketball Player of the Year award announced in March, Moses joins an elite alumni association of past state girls basketball award-winners, including Candace Parker (2001-02, Naperville Central HS, Ill.), Diana Taurasi (1998-99 & 1999-00, Don Antonio Lugo HS, Calif.), Maya Moore (2005-06 Collins Hill HS, Ga.), Rashanda McCants (2004-05, Asheville HS, N.C.), Shyra Ely (1999-00, Ben Davis HS, Ind.) and Lisa Leslie (1988-89, Morningside HS, Calif.)

The 5-foot-7 senior guard led the Golden Eagles (20-4) to the Class 2A state tournament round of 16 this past season, averaging 31.7 points, 5.0 assists, 5.0 steals and 4.8 rebounds per game. A 2009 Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association First Team All-State honoree and a 2010 McDonald’s All-American Game selection committee nominee, Moses led the state in scoring as a senior and ranked in the state’s top 20 for free throw percentage, steals, assists and 3-point field goal percentage. Moses concluded her high school career with 1,956 points.

Moses has maintained a 3.67 GPA in the classroom. A member of the Oak Hill High student council, she has volunteered locally as an elementary school tutor, a youth basketball coach and on behalf of a food bank.

“She’s a special player,” said Scott Bumgardner, head coach of rival Wabash High. “When she gets the ball in the open court, it’s an automatic deuce. She’s unstoppable in the open court. She is so tough to guard because she can get to the hoop off the dribble and she can shoot the 3-pointer. She just has a complete game. She’s very hard to play against.”

Moses has signed a National Letter of Intent to play basketball on scholarship at Purdue University this fall.

The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport. The selection process is administered by ESPN RISE and the Gatorade high school sports leadership team, which work with top sport-specific experts and a media advisory board of accomplished, veteran prep sports journalists to determine the state winners in each sport.

Moses joins recent Gatorade Indiana Girls Basketball Players of the Year Skylar Diggins (2008-09 & 2007-08, Washington) and Ta'Shia Phillips (2006-07, Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School) among the state’s list of former award winners.