Jordan Speiser named Gatorade Missouri Girls Basketball Player of the Year

Junior standout led Lutheran St. Charles to second-place finish

Nate Latsch, SBLive Sports | Mar 21, 2024

Jordan Speiser named Gatorade Missouri Girls Basketball Player of the Year /

Lutheran St. Charles junior guard Jordan Speiser was announced as the 2024 Gatorade Missouri Girls Basketball Player of the Year on Thursday morning.

The 6-foot-1 Speiser, who led Lutheran to the Missouri Class 5 championship as a sophomore, averaged 22.9 points, 9.6 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.8 steals per game as the Cougars went 26-5 and finished second in Class 5 this winter.

The first Gatorade Missouri Girls Basketball Player of the Year from Lutheran High School, Speiser follows Grain Valley's Grace Slaughter (2023), Kickapoo's Bella Fontleroy and Incarnate Word Academy's Natalie Poots (2021) in winning the state's Gatorade POY honor.

Lutheran St. Charles junior Jordan Speiser / Photo by Nate Latsch, SBLive Sports

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Published Mar 21, 2024

NATE LATSCH, SBLIVE SPORTS

Nate Latsch is a Regional Editor at SBLive Sports overseeing high school coverage for Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. A veteran sportswriter and multimedia content creator, Latsch has covered high school sports in the St. Louis area and Missouri for 20 years, with a focus on high school football, basketball, baseball and football and basketball recruiting. He has worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, STLhighschoolsports.com, the Associated Press, FOX Sports Midwest, MLB.com and Scout.com. In addition to covering high school sports, Latsch has covered youth, college and professional sports, including covering the St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Blues and St. Louis Rams, the University of Missouri and Saint Louis University.