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Five Iowa girls earn nominations for McDonald’s All-American

Divine Bourrage, Journey Houston, Libby Fandel, Amani Jenkins, Ava Zediker all nominated

Dana Becker

Divine Bourrage was one of four players from Iowa nominated as McDonald's All-Americans.
Divine Bourrage was one of four players from Iowa nominated as McDonald's All-Americans. / Nirmalendu Majumdar/Ames Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK

Five Iowa girls basketball players have been nominated to be McDonald’s All-Americans.

Davenport North teammates Divine Bourrage and Journey Houston were named alongside Libby Fandel of Cedar Rapids Xavier, Amani Jenkins from Johnston and Ava Zediker of West Des Moines Dowling.

Bourrage is averaging just under 20 points per game with nine assists, five rebounds and three steals. She is shooting 46 percent from the field, 32 percent from the 3-point line and nearly 80 percent at the free throw stripe.

Houston is shooting 58 percent from the field, averaging 18 points, seven rebounds, four steals and three assists a night. She is also an 80 percent free throw shooter.

Fandel scores 24 points a night with almost 10 rebounds, four steals and three assists. She is shooting 45 percent from the floor and 78 percent at the free throw line.

Jenkins averages just under 15 points with 8.6 rebounds, two assists, a steal and a block a night for the Dragons, all while shooting 57 percent from the floor and 82 percent at the free throw line.

Zediker is posting 17 points with five rebounds, three assists and two steals per night.

All five are Div. I basketball commits. Bourrage has commited to LSU, Houston to in-state Iowa, Fandel to Kansas, Jenkins to Virginia Tech and Zediker to Creighton.

Two boys, Jack McCaffery and Mason Watkins, were also nominated for the honor.

McDonald’s All-American designation began in 1977 and has continued each season outside of 2020 and ‘21 due to COVID. There is both a boys and a girls game, along with skills competitions held. The game is televised nationally and was even held in Ames, Iowa at Hilton Coliseum back in 1999. 

The girls game was first played in 2002. 

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Dana Becker
DANA BECKER

Dana Becker has been a sports writer in Iowa since 2000, writing for The Fort Dodge Messenger, Mason City Globe-Gazette, Cedar Rapids Gazette and others. Dana resides in northcentral Iowa and started as a writer with SB Live Sports in 2022 focused on the state of Iowa. Along with providing coverage of football and wrestling, Dana also spotlights cross country, swimming, basketball, track and field, soccer, tennis, golf, baseball and softball. He began writing for High School on SI in 2023.

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