South Carolina star Aliyah Boston honored with ‘Aliyah Boston Day’

South Carolina girls’s basketball star Aliyah Boston was honored with “Aliyah Boston Day” by her hometown within the U.S. Virgin Islands Saturday, presided by Gov. Albert Bryan Jr.

The St. Thomas native can have a parade by downtown Charlotte Amalie earlier than officers will honor her with a particular ceremony. An indication noting all of her accolades was unveiled Saturday morning at Cyril E. King Airport in St. Thomas.

Boston helped lead the Gamecocks to the 2022 nationwide championship, incomes a number of nationwide participant of the 12 months awards and being named essentially the most excellent participant within the NCAA girls’s event. The group was ranked No. 1 all season.

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In her junior 12 months, the 6-foot-5 ahead averaged a double-double, posting 16.8 factors and 12.6 rebounds per recreation. Most notably, Boston set the SEC report for consecutive double-doubles with 27 video games, shattering former LSU nice Sylvia Fowles report of 19.

No different lady from the U.S. Virgin Islands has gone on to gather nationwide participant of the 12 months distinction in faculty basketball. She’s the second ever native of the Virgin Islands to win the award, following St. Croix native Tim Duncan who was the male recipient in 1997 at Wake Forest.

In April, Boston introduced she signed a cope with Below Armour with hopes of rising the game of ladies’s basketball. As a part of that deal, she’s going to maintain a primary of its form Below Armour Subsequent girls’s basketball camp in St. Thomas this summer season.

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