![]() ![]() 1 recruit in the Class of 2012 in the HoopGurlz ESPNU 100. New York's Section 3 career leader for points scored (2,000-plus and counting), she is rated as the nation's No. Stewart was the leading scorer and rebounder for the USA Basketball Women's U19 National Team that won the 2011 FIBA World Championships last summer and has been selected to participate in both the McDonald's All-American Game and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association All-America Game this spring. "Oh my gosh, I saw my parents come in the door with Tamika and I thought I was in trouble or something. "Let's just say I was not expecting that," Stewart said after accepting the trophy from Catchings. The state's returning Gatorade Girls Basketball Player of the Year, Stewart is averaging 25.7 points, 13.1 rebounds, 3.5 blocks, 3.2 assists and 3.2 steals entering the class postseason final four. You can tell she understands what an honor this is."Īn electric, baseline-to-baseline playmaker, Stewart has led the Northstars to a 19-3 record, the Section 3 Class AA championship and a berth in the Class AA state tournament semifinals against Ossining (N.Y.) on Friday. She kept looking at me like, 'Do I have something on my face?' It was great. "I really think she thought she was in trouble for something. "Her face was fantastic," said Catchings, a 10-year veteran of the WNBA and a two-time U.S. ![]() Thursday, the 6-foot-4 senior picked up some hardware to validate the hypotheses when reigning WNBA MVP Tamika Catchings ambushed a stunned Stewart in the school library to present her with the Gatorade National Girls Basketball Player of the Year trophy. Since her early teens, Cicero-North Syracuse (Cicero, N.Y.) basketball prodigy Breanna Stewart seemed destined for greatness.
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