Megan Walker
Monacan High School
Impact Statement
Walker has impacted every team she’s been a part of from Monacan High School to UConn to the WNBA.
Biography
Walker, who will attend the University of Connecticut in the fall, averaged 26 points per game with eight rebounds per contest during her senior season.
Monacan was a perfect 30-0 this season, winning its third straight Virginia Class 4A state title. Walker finished her career with 2,067 points and was also named the 2017 Naismith Female Athlete of the Year. Walker is an excellent student with a 3.83 grade point average and also volunteers as a youth coach at a daycare center.
Walker is the second Virginia girls’ high school basketball player to win this award. Elisabeth Williams of Princess Anne High School won the NHSCA Girls’ Basketball Athlete of the Year award in 2011.
Despite the NCAA Tournament being canceled due do Covid, Walker earned AP First Team and WBCA All-America honors. She was named the American Athletic Conference Player of the Year.
Walker entered the 2020 draft and was the 9th overall pick by New York Liberty.
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