Each year the Minnesota Miss Basketball award is given to the person chosen as the best high school

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 girls basketball

Basketball

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 player in the U.S. state

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 of Minnesota

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. The honor has been awarded annually since 1978 by the Minnesota Girls Basketball Coaches Association.

The award has generally been given to one recipient each year. However, in 1984, no award was given, and in the years 1985-1989, awards were given to two winners, from Class A and Class AA.

Award winners

Year	Player	High School	College	WNBA draft
1978	Laura Gardner	Bloomington Jefferson Bloomington Jefferson High School For schools with a similar name, see Jefferson High School.Thomas Jefferson Senior High School is one of the two high schools in Bloomington, MN, USA Independent School District No. 271. It is located on at 102nd Street and France Avenue on the suburb's southwest side. About 1,600 students attend...
1979	Jean Tierney	St. Paul Central Central High School (Saint Paul, Minnesota) Central High School of Saint Paul, is the oldest high school in the state of Minnesota, United States. Founded in 1866 in downtown Saint Paul, Central has educated many leaders in business, government, literature, arts, sciences, and education throughout the state of Minnesota and the United States...
1980	Janet Karvonen Janet Karvonen Janet Karvonen was born and raised in New York Mills, Minnesota where she became a pioneer for girls basketball in Minnesota. Karvonen scored over 3,000 points in her high school career and led New York Mills state championships in 1977, 1978, and 1979 and a third place finish in 1980...	New York Mills	Old Dominion Old Dominion University Old Dominion University is a state university located in Norfolk, Virginia, United States, and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools... , transferred to Louisiana Tech Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball The Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball team represents Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana. The team currently competes in the NCAA Division I as a member of the Western Athletic Conference. The current head coach of the Lady Techsters is Teresa Weatherspoon...
1981	Kelly Skalicky	Albany
1982	Annie Adamczak	Moose Lake
1983	Angela Kuehn	MN State Academy for the Deaf Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf The Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf is a public residential school serving deaf children in Minnesota. It is one of two Minnesota State Academies in Faribault and operated by the state for particular student populations.-History:...
1984	None
1985 Class A	Kristi Kremer	Wheaton
1985 Class AA	Denise Holm	Duluth East East High School (Duluth, Minnesota) East High School is the largest of three public secondary schools in Duluth, Minnesota. It educates students in grades nine through twelve. It first opened its doors in 1927, as a junior high school...
1986 Class A	Laurie Decker	Rochester Lourdes
1986 Class AA	Amy Davidson	St. Louis Park
1987 Class A	Laurie Decker	Rochester Lourdes
1987 Class AA	Mya Whitmore	Hill-Murray Hill-Murray School Hill-Murray School is a coeducational private Catholic school serving grades 7-12. It is located on a site in Maplewood, Minnesota, a suburb of Saint Paul. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, it was established in 1971 through the consolidation of Archbishop...
1988 Class A	Mary Jo Miller	Tracy-Milroy
1988 Class AA	Carolyn Frisk	Stillwater Stillwater Area High School Stillwater Area High School is a public school located in Oak Park Heights, Minnesota and is part of the Stillwater Area Public Schools - District 834...
1989 Class A	Yoli Murphy	CHOF
1989 Class AA	Jessica Fiebelkorn	Osseo Osseo Senior High School Osseo Senior High school is a three year public high school located in Osseo, Minnesota on 317 2nd Ave. NW.The principal is Dr. Robert Perdaems and the assistant principals are Diana Bledsoe and Ronnie King.-Overview:...
1990	Carol Ann Shudlick Carol Ann Shudlick Carol Ann Shudlick Smith is a former basketball player for the University of Minnesota. Shudlick played from 1990 through 1994, setting a number of school records, including a then-record 2,097 career points...	Apple Valley Apple Valley High School (Minnesota) Apple Valley High School, commonly referred to as AVHS, is a public four-year high school in Apple Valley, Minnesota. It is a part of Independent School District 196 . It is also affiliated with the Minnesota State High School League...
1991	Shannon Loeblein	St. Paul Harding Harding Senior High School (St. Paul, Minnesota) Harding Senior High School is a public comprehensive high school located on the East Side of Saint Paul, Minnesota. The school is one of six high schools in the Saint Paul Public School District and is the largest high school in the city of Saint Paul with enrollment at approximately 2400...
1992	Stacy Fields	Mounds View Mounds View High School Mounds View High School is a public high school located in Arden Hills, Minnesota. A part of the Mounds View Public Schools district, the high school is located in a suburban area approximately nine miles north of downtown Minneapolis and Saint Paul and includes seven cities with 76,193 residents...
1993	Kasey Morlock	Stewartville
1994	Kjersten Miller	Bloomington Jefferson Bloomington Jefferson High School For schools with a similar name, see Jefferson High School.Thomas Jefferson Senior High School is one of the two high schools in Bloomington, MN, USA Independent School District No. 271. It is located on at 102nd Street and France Avenue on the suburb's southwest side. About 1,600 students attend...
1995	Linda Shudlick	Apple Valley Apple Valley High School (Minnesota) Apple Valley High School, commonly referred to as AVHS, is a public four-year high school in Apple Valley, Minnesota. It is a part of Independent School District 196 . It is also affiliated with the Minnesota State High School League...
1996	Sue Fiero	Goodhue
1997 (tie)	Coco Miller Coco Miller -External links:**...	Rochester Mayo Mayo High School Mayo High School is an American high school named after the brothers William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo, physicians and founders of the Mayo Clinic. Mayo High School was built in 1966 in the southeastern section of Rochester, Minnesota. A public school, it is part of the Rochester...	Georgia Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball The Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball team represents the University of Georgia in basketball. The Lady Bulldogs are a member of the Southeastern Conference . The "Lady Dawgs," as they are sometimes called, play in Stegeman Coliseum in Athens, Georgia...	2001 WNBA Draft 2001 WNBA Draft 2001 WNBA Draft - 20 April 2001*On April 20, 2001 the regular WNBA draft took place.-College draft:-Round 1:-Round 2:-Round 3:-Round 4:... : 1st Rnd, 9th overall by the Washington Mystics Washington Mystics The Washington Mystics is a professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C., playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded prior to the 1998 season. The team is owned by Monumental Sports & Entertainment , who also owns the Mystics'...
1997 (tie)	Kelly Miller	Rochester Mayo Mayo High School Mayo High School is an American high school named after the brothers William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo, physicians and founders of the Mayo Clinic. Mayo High School was built in 1966 in the southeastern section of Rochester, Minnesota. A public school, it is part of the Rochester...	Georgia Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball The Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball team represents the University of Georgia in basketball. The Lady Bulldogs are a member of the Southeastern Conference . The "Lady Dawgs," as they are sometimes called, play in Stegeman Coliseum in Athens, Georgia...	2001 WNBA Draft 2001 WNBA Draft 2001 WNBA Draft - 20 April 2001*On April 20, 2001 the regular WNBA draft took place.-College draft:-Round 1:-Round 2:-Round 3:-Round 4:... : 1st Rnd, 2nd overall by the Charlotte Sting Charlotte Sting The Charlotte Sting was a Women's National Basketball Association franchise based in Charlotte, North Carolina and it was one of the league's eight original teams. The team folded on January 3, 2007....
1998	Tamara Moore Tamara Moore Tamara Tenell Moore is a professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the Houston Comets....	Minneapolis North North Community High School North Community High School, or simply Minneapolis North, is a public, four-year high school located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The school has existed for over 120 years in several buildings all located on the North Side of Minneapolis...	Wisconsin Wisconsin Badgers women's basketball The Wisconsin Badgers women’s basketball team is a NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference. Home games are played at the Kohl Center, located on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus in Madison, Wisconsin...	2002 WNBA Draft 2002 WNBA Draft 2002 WNBA Draft – April 20, 2002On April 20, 2002, the regular WNBA draft took place.-College draft:-Round 1:-Round 2:-Round 3:-Round 4:-UConn Fab Four:... : 1st Rnd, 15th overall by the Miami Sol Miami Sol The Miami Sol was a women's basketball team which joined the Women's National Basketball Association in 2000. They played their games at American Airlines Arena. The team folded after the 2002 season because of financial problems...
1999	Mauri Horton	Minneapolis North North Community High School North Community High School, or simply Minneapolis North, is a public, four-year high school located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The school has existed for over 120 years in several buildings all located on the North Side of Minneapolis...	Rutgers Rutgers Scarlet Knights The Rutgers Scarlet Knights are the athletic teams that represent Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey...
2000	Susan King Susan King Borchardt Susan King Borchardt is an American professional basketball player.She grew up in a family of collegiate basketball players. Her father, Gary King, played at the University of Nebraska at Kearney...	Holy Angels Academy of Holy Angels The Academy of Holy Angels is a Catholic, coeducational high school located in Richfield, Minnesota. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Holy Angels educates more than 820 students each year in grades nine through twelve from around the Twin Cities...	Stanford Stanford Cardinal The Stanford Cardinal is the nickname of the athletic teams at Stanford University.-Nickname and mascot history:Following its win over Cal in the first-ever Big Game in 1892, the color cardinal was picked as the primary color of Stanford's athletic teams...
2001	April Calhoun	Robbinsdale Armstrong Robbinsdale Armstrong High School Robbinsdale Armstrong High School is a high school located in Plymouth, Minnesota, a second-tier suburb of Minneapolis...	Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
2002	Shannon Bolden	Marshall	Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
2003	Liz Podominick	Lakeville Lakeville North High School Lakeville North High School is a public high school in northern Lakeville, Minnesota. Formerly Lakeville High School, LNHS received its current name when a second high school, Lakeville South High School, was built...	Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
2004	Leslie Knight	Hopkins Hopkins High School Hopkins High School is a public high school located in Minnetonka, Minnesota, a southwestern suburb of Minneapolis. It offers classes for grades 10, 11, and 12. Hopkins High School is part of the Hopkins School District 270 and draws students from the city of Hopkins, central and eastern parts of...	Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
2005	Katie Ohm	Elgin-Millville	Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
2006	Jenna Smith	Bloomington Kennedy	Illinois Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball The Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball team is an NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference. Home games are played at Assembly Hall, located on University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's campus in Champaign....	2010 WNBA Draft 2010 WNBA Draft The 2010 WNBA Draft is the league's annual process for determining which teams receive the rights to negotiate with players entering the league. The draft was held on April 8, 2010. The first round was shown on ESPN2 , while the second and third rounds were shown on NBA TV and ESPNU.A lottery was... : 2nd Rnd, 14th overall by the Washington Mystics Washington Mystics The Washington Mystics is a professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C., playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded prior to the 1998 season. The team is owned by Monumental Sports & Entertainment , who also owns the Mystics'...
2007	Angel Robinson	St. Paul Central Central High School (Saint Paul, Minnesota) Central High School of Saint Paul, is the oldest high school in the state of Minnesota, United States. Founded in 1866 in downtown Saint Paul, Central has educated many leaders in business, government, literature, arts, sciences, and education throughout the state of Minnesota and the United States...	Marquette Marquette -Locations:United States*Marquette, Iowa*Marquette, Kansas*Marquette, Michigan**Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette*Marquette, Nebraska*Marquette , Wisconsin**Marquette, Wisconsin, village within the town*Marquette County, Michigan...
2008	Courtney Boylan	Chaska Chaska High School Chaska Senior High School is a public high school located in Chaska, Minnesota, a southwestern suburb of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. CHS is a 9th-12 grade school; About 1042 students attend CHS....	Michigan Michigan Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
2009	Tayler Hill	Minneapolis South	Ohio State
2010	Cassie Rochel	Lakeville North Lakeville North High School Lakeville North High School is a public high school in northern Lakeville, Minnesota. Formerly Lakeville High School, LNHS received its current name when a second high school, Lakeville South High School, was built...	Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...