In its 38th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, Gatorade
today announced Addy Brown of Derby High School is the 2022-23 Gatorade Kansas Girls Basketball Player of the Year.

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 Brown as Kansas’ best high school girls basketball player.

At the time of her selection, the 6-foot-3 senior point guard had led the Panthers to an 19-2 record and a berth in the Class 6A West Region sub-state championship game. Brown averaged 20.4 points, 10.4 rebounds, 4.1 assists, 2.6 steals and 1.2 blocks per game through 21 games. A McDonald’s All-American Game selection, she is a two-time Class 6A First Team All-State honoree.

“Addy is truly a coach on the floor,” said Dan Harrison, head coach of Derby High
School. “She is a totally unselfish player who makes everyone better around her during practices and games.”

She has signed a national letter of intent to play basketball on scholarship at Iowa State University this fall.

Brown joins recent Gatorade Kansas Girls Basketball Players of the Year Zyanna Walker (2021-22, Wichita Heights High School), Payton Verhulst (2020-21 & 2019-20, Bishop Miege High School), and Kennedy Brown (2018-19, Derby High School), among the state’s list of former award winners.