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. – Even before her senior season at St. John’s Country Day School in Winter Park, Taliah Scott has a new title.
She is, by all accounts, the best girls high school basketball player ever to come out of Northeast Florida.
That’s a lofty accomplishment because the greater Jacksonville area has produced some quality players through the years. There was Ribault High’s Kayla Brewer (Class of 2011), who played for South Carolina and Texas on the collegiate level. In that same class was Potter House High’s Loliya Briggs, who went on to play for Pitt.
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Is Arkansas commit Taliah Scott northeast Florida’s best high school girls basketball player ever?
St. John’s Country Day’s star class of 2023 point guard can score 50 while outplaying everyone on defense
MICHAEL T. WHITEUPDATED:OCT 27, 2022 2:19 PM EDTORIGINAL:OCT 27, 2022
WINTER PARK, Fla. – Even before her senior season at St. John’s Country Day School in Winter Park, Taliah Scott has a new title.
She is, by all accounts, the best girls high school basketball player ever to come out of Northeast Florida.
That’s a lofty accomplishment because the greater Jacksonville area has produced some quality players through the years. There was Ribault High’s Kayla Brewer (Class of 2011), who played for South Carolina and Texas on the collegiate level. In that same class was Potter House High’s Loliya Briggs, who went on to play for Pitt.
Is Taliah Scott of St. John’s Country Day the best girls basketball player ever in Northeast Florida? Yes, according to many scouts, long time observers and rival coaches.
Is Taliah Scott of St. John’s Country Day the best girls basketball player ever in Northeast Florida? Yes, according to many scouts, long time observers and rival coaches.
Photo courtesy of John Cavrera, St. John’s Country Day)
At the time, either one of them could have been called the best player ever out of Northeast Florida. But it would not have lasted long. A new gold standard was set by Ribault’s Rennia Davis, who graduated high school in 2017. She was a McDonald’s All-American and a Jordan Brand Classic All-American.
In four college seasons at Tennessee, Davis averaged 15.4 points and eight rebounds while starting 116 games out of a possible 118. Davis was drafted by the Minnesota Lynx and is now with the Indiana Fever.
Then, along came a 5-foot-9 point guard, with a great jump shot, a ridiculous scoring average and an all-around game. No one wants to slight Brewer, Briggs and Davis. They are just being honest because they believe the torch already has been passed. In Scott, they see a player who could have a major impact for Arkansas and go on to an outstanding career in the WNBA.
