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Girls' basketball: Best of the best 2020

By Tim Kolehmainen, Breakdown Sports Media, 03/26/20, 5:00PM CDT

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Bueckers named 2020 Breakdown girls' basketball player of the year

The Breakdown is pleased to announce its 2019-20 Minnesota high school girls' basketball players and coaches of the year. After leading her team to a second straight undefeated season (stopped one game shy of another title) in Class AAAA, Hopkins' Paige Bueckers was honored as the overall Breakdown player of the year. The full list of honorees is below:

Overall

  • POY — Paige Bueckers, Hopkins
  • COY — Liz Carpentier, Farmington

Class AAAA

  • POY — Paige Bueckers, Hopkins
  • COY — Liz Carpentier, Farmington and Brian Cosgriff, Hopkins

Class AAA

  • POY — Nurjei Weems, DeLaSalle
  • COY — Tanysha Scott, DeLaSalle and Dustin Niebauer, Waconia

Class AA

  • POY — Alyssa Ustby, Rochester Lourdes
  • COY — Aaron Berg, Rochester Lourdes and Tiffany Stubbs, Concordia Academy

Class A

  • POY — Taya Hakamaki, Cromwell-Wright
  • COY — Mike Hepola, Henning and Jeff Gronner, Cromwell-Wright

Congratulations to our postseason players and coaches of the year for the Minnesota high school girls' basketball season!

Since 2001, the Breakdown has covered the high school sports scene in Minnesota, naming both a preseason and postseason player of the year in each sport covered for each year (since 2001 for girls' and boys' basketball, since 2008 for boys' hockey and girls' volleyball, since 2014 for boys' baseball, and since 2018 for girls' softball and  girls' hockey).

We've complied that full list of players through the years, which is peppered with recognizable names from Minnesota's high school sports history. The full list may be found at: http://www.breakdownsportsusa.com/page/show/336134