Dee Alexander

COLUMBUS, Ohio (3-13-25) – Cincinnati Purcell Marian senior Dee Alexander was announced as 2025 Ohio Ms. Basketball Thursday by a statewide media panel. She is the second girls basketball player to win the award three times, joining Canton McKinley’s Kierstan Bell, who won the award in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The only player to win the Ohio Mr. Basketball Award three times is Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary’s LeBron James (2001-03).

Now in its 38th year, the prestigious award was first given by the Associated Press in 1988. It has been voted by the Ohio Prep Sports Media Association since 2017.

Elise Bender and Bryn Martin

Alexander picked up 104 points from the statewide panel. Anthony Wayne senior Elise Bender was the runner-up with 58 points and Springboro senior Bryn Martin finished third with 57 points.

Other finalists included Streetsboro senior Naomi Benson, Westerville South junior Ariyana Cradle, Lyndhurst Brush sophomore Tatiana Mason, Strasburg-Franklin senior Riley Thomas and Berlin Hiland senior Joplin Yoder.

Past Ohio Ms. Basketball Ohio winners

  • 2025 – Dee Alexander, Cincinnati Purcell Marian, senior
  • 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, Tol. Waite, senior
  • 2009 – Kendall Hackney, Cin. 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 Hts. Trinity, senior
  • 1996 – Semeka Randall, Garfield Hts. Trinity, junior
  • 1995 – Beth Ostendorf, Pickerington, senior
  • 1994 – Na’Sheema Hillmon, Garfield Hts. Trinity, senior
  • 1993 – Marlene Stollings, Beaver Eastern, senior
  • 1992 – Katie Smith, Logan, senior
  • 1991 – Vonda Ward, Garfield Hts. Trinity, senior
  • 1990 – Vonda Ward, Garfield Hts. Trinity, junior
  • 1989 – Carol Madsen, Reading, senior
  • 1988 – Janet Haneberg, Cincinnati Seton, senior