Best of A'ja Wilson: First Half of 2024 Season

Best of A’ja Wilson: First Half of 2024 Season

Wilson is in the middle of an amazing season right now. She enters the post-Olympic part of the schedule leading the league in scoring, rebounding, blocks, Player Efficiency Rating (PER) and win shares. The Aces have had bumps in the road and are in fifth place, but Wilson has been brilliant and is racing toward her third MVP award. — Michael Voepel

Wilson was born on August 8, 1996, to Roscoe Jr. and Eva Wilson.[3] She said on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! that she was named for her father’s favorite song, “Aja” by Steely Dan. Her middle name Riyadh came from the Saudi Arabian capital where Aja’s maternal aunt was deployed in Operation Desert Storm.

Wilson spent her grade school and high school years as one of the few black students in Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, a southern Columbia private school.

Wilson played a total of 119 high school games after making the varsity team as an eighth-grader. She averaged 24.7 points, 13.9 rebounds, and 4.3 blocks a game throughout her high school career. She was number 22 and played as a forward. After finishing as a runner-up in her junior year, Wilson led Heathwood Hall to the 2014 state championship as a senior. Her 35 points, 15 rebounds, and five blocks per game as a senior made her the National High School player of the year in 2014, a Parade and McDonald’s All-American, and the #1 rated ESPN HoopGurlz prospect in 2014. Wilson committed to play for Dawn Staley at the University of South Carolina.

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