Each year since 2006, MaxPreps has recognized outstanding performers in prep girls basketball. America's source for high school sports continues the tradition to close out the 2023-24 season by naming the top player in each state. Selections are based on team success and individual excellence in addition to local and state accolades.
Alexis Bordas of
Wheeling Park (Wheeling) is the 2023-24 West Virginia MaxPreps Player of the Year for the second straight season. The 5-foot-8 junior guard led the Patriots to a 25-4 record and Class 4A state championship.
For the season, Bordas averaged 24.0 points, 5.8 rebounds, 2.4 steals and 2.2 assists per game. She went for a season-high 38 points in a 63-56 state semifinal win over Huntington on the way to tournament MVP honors.
Alexis Bordas of Wheeling Park is the 2023-24 West Virginia MaxPreps Player of the Year for the second straight season. The 5-foot-8 junior guard led the Patriots to a 25-4 record and Class 4A title. (Photo: David Faber)
Bordas has scored over 1,700 points and led Wheeling Park to a 69-12 record with two state championship game appearances in her three years in the program.
She has received multiple Division I scholarship offers but remains uncommitted.
Each state's MaxPreps Player of the Year will be considered for inclusion in the MaxPreps All-America Team, which is scheduled to be released April 11. Past selections include 2023 WNBA Most Valuable Player Breanna Stewart (2012) as well as 2023 All-WNBA first team picks Napheesa Collier (2015), Alyssa Thomas (2010) and A'ja Wilson (2014).
Past West Virginia MaxPreps Players of the Year2021-22 — Dionna Gray, Huntington
2022-23 — Alexis Bordas, Wheeling Park (Wheeling)
