Dee Alexander

Alexander will lead the defending Division II state champions into the state semifinals on Friday

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Cincinnati Purcell Marian junior Dee Alexander was announced as the 2024 Ohio Ms. Basketball Wednesday by a statewide media panel. She won the award last year as a sophomore.

Alexander will have a chance next season to win her third Ms. Basketball, that has only happened one toher tiem when Canton McKinley’s Kierstan Bell did it (2017, 2018 and 2019).

Alexander is the 8th winner from the Cincinnati area, as well as the last four.

Now in its 37th year, the prestigious award was first given by the Associated Press in 1988. It has been voted by the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association since 2017.

Corri Vermilya , Berry Wallace and Saniyah Hall

Loudonville senior Corri Vermilya was the runner-up. Pickerington Central senior Berry Wallace finished third and Shaker Heights Laurel sophomore Saniyah Hall finished fourth.

Other finalists included Whitehouse Anthony Wayne junior Elise Bender, Bloom-Carroll senior Emily Bratton, Springboro junior Bryn Martin and Berlin Hiland senior Ashley Mullet.

Past Ohio Ms. Basketball Ohio winners

  • 2024 – Dee Alexander, Cincinnati Purcell Marian, junior 
  • 2023 – Dee Alexander, Cincinnati Purcell Marian, sophomore
  • 2022 – KK Bransford, Cincinnati Mount Notre Dame, senior
  • 2021 – KK Bransford, Cincinnati Mount Notre Dame, junior
  • 2020 – Madeline Westbeld, Kettering Fairmont, senior
  • 2019 – Kierstan Bell, Canton McKinley, senior
  • 2018 – Kierstan Bell, Canton McKinley, junior
  • 2017 – Kierstan Bell, Canton McKinley, sophomore
  • 2016 – Jensen Caretti, Hannibal River, senior
  • 2015 – Hallie Thome, Chagrin Falls, senior
  • 2014 – Kelsey Mitchell, Cincinnati Princeton, senior
  • 2013 – Ashley Morrissette, Twinsburg, senior
  • 2012 – Ameryst Alston, Canton McKinley, senior
  • 2011 – Ameryst Alston, Canton McKinley, junior
  • 2010 – Natasha Howard, Toledo Waite, senior
  • 2009 – Kendall Hackney, Cincinnati Mount Notre Dame, senior
  • 2008 – Amber Gray, West Chester Lakota West, senior
  • 2007 – Jantel Lavender, Cleveland Central Catholic, senior
  • 2006 – Tyra Grant, Youngstown Ursuline, senior
  • 2005 – Maria Getty, Dayton Chaminade-Julienne, senior
  • 2004 – Mel Thomas, Cincinnati Mount Notre Dame, senior
  • 2003 – Brittany Hunter, Columbus Brookhaven, senior
  • 2002 – Barbara Turner, Cleveland East Tech, senior
  • 2001 – Michelle Munoz, Mason, senior
  • 2000 – Michelle Munoz, Mason, junior
  • 1999 – (TIE) Kaayla Chones, Eastlake North, senior; LaToya Turner, Pickerington, senior
  • 1998 – Tamika Williams, Dayton Chaminade-Julienne, senior
  • 1997 – Semeka Randall, Garfield Heights Trinity, senior
  • 1996 – Semeka Randall, Garfield Heights. Trinity, junior
  • 1995 – Beth Ostendorf, Pickerington, senior
  • 1994 – Na’Sheema Hillmon, Garfield Heights Trinity, senior
  • 1993 – Marlene Stollings, Beaver Eastern, senior
  • 1992 – Katie Smith, Logan, senior
  • 1991 – Vonda Ward, Garfield Heights Trinity, senior
  • 1990 – Vonda Ward, Garfield Heights Trinity, junior
  • 1989 – Carol Madsen, Reading, senior
  • 1988 – Janet Haneberg, Cincinnati Seton, senior