(3-17-24)  The 2024 Mr. and Miss Kentucky Basketball Candidates and KABC Regional Players of the Year were honored tonight at the 2024 Mr. and Miss Kentucky Basketball Awards Ceremony.

Only seniors are eligible for the awards.

Pikeville’s Trinity Rowe has been named this year’s Miss Kentucky Basketball.

Rowe was nominee for the McDonald’s All-American Game, leading the Panthers in scoring averaging 16.2 points per game.

In 2024 Rowe became Pikeville’s all time leading scorer and just the fifth player in Kentucky girls high school basketball history to record 1,000 career assists.

The Southern Mississippi commit led the Panthers to Rupp Arena where they lost to Bethlehem, falling 56-49.

Miss KY Basketball Candidates:

  • 1st Region: Claire Johnson, McCracken County
  • 2nd Region: Shiyah Forte, Hopkinsville
  • 3rd Region: Hailee Johnson, Owensboro Catholic
  • 4th Region: Abby Varney, Barren County
  • 5th Region: Dea Bradley, Hart County
  • 6th Region: Mariah Knight, Butler Traditional
  • 6th Region: Ramiya White, Butler Traditional
  • 7th Region: Reagan Bender, Sacred Heart Academy
  • 7th Regin: Destiny Jones, Louisville Central
  • 8th Region: Ella Morrison, South Oldham
  • 9th Region: Quinn Eubank, Ryle
  • 9th Region: Julia Hunt, Holy Cross (Covington)
  • 10th Region: Hayden Barrier, Montgomery County
  • 11th Region: Ayanna Darrington, Frederick Douglass
  • 12th Region: Anna Drakeford, Mercer County
  • 13th Region: Ella Karst, Harlan County
  • 14th Region: Carly Smith, Owsley County
  • 15th Region: Trinity Rowe, Pikeville
  • 16th Region: Shaelyn Steele, Russell

Lyon County’s Travis Perry, who has signed with the University of Kentucky, is Kentucky’s 2024 Mr. Basketball.

Perry, a 6’2 Guard, has played at Lyon since he was in the 7th grade and has scored 5,393 points. As a seventh grader, Perry was the team’s leading scorer, averaging 20.6 points per game.He surpassed the previous record held by Kelly Coleman, who scored 4,337 points from 1952-1956 at Wayland.Perry also has the record for most 3-pointers made in a career, 698. The previous record was 463.

Mr. KY Basketball Candidates:

  • 1st Region: Connor Miller, McCracken County
  • 2nd Region: Travis Perry, Lyon County
  • 3rd Region: Elijah Decker, Ohio County
  • 4th Region: Mason Ritter, Bowling Green
  • 4th Region: Kade Unseld, Warren Central
  • 5th Region: Brett Decker, Central Hardin
  • 5th Region: Ayden Evans, Elizabethtown
  • 6th Region: Dayton Williams, Butler Traditional
  • 7th Region: Quel’Ron House, Seneca
  • 8th Region: Max Green, Oldham County
  • 9th Region: Caden Miller, Covington Catholic
  • 9th Region: Nathan Vinson, Highlands
  • 10th Region: Kylan Hinson, Augusta
  • 11th Region: Tyler Doyle, Lexington Catholic
  • 12th Region: Ben Godby, Somerset
  • 13th Region: Trent Noah, Harlan County
  • 14th Region: Peyton Dixon, Letcher County Central
  • 15th Region: Aden Barnett, Magoffin
  • 16th Region: Adam Hargett, Fleming County