Guyanese National Miriam McKenzie is the All-Metro Player of the Year

Oakland Mills' Miriam McKenzie is the All-Metro Player of the Year for girls basketball. Averaging 27 points, guard Miriam McKenzie has managed a double double in all but three games this season.

Looking for the spectacular? McKenzie was a one-girl highlight reel. The senior guard seemed able to score any way she wanted.
'She can stick the three, she can handle the ball and she's a great rebounder,' Mount Hebron coach Scott Robinson said. 'She has unbelievable body control, she's so strong and she has great range.'

The Howard County Player of the Year did everything but dunk, although she could get up for being 5 feet 8.
'She was unstoppable,' Atholton coach Maureen Shacreaw said. 'I scouted them against Reservoir and Mount Hebron. At one point against Reservoir, she went through four bodies and scored and she didn't touch anybody. Against [Hebron], they threw an alley-oop to her and she got it and put it in. You don't see a girl do that.'
McKenzie was the main reason for the Scorpions' ascent over the past four years.
When she arrived, they were 5-15, but they steadily rose, finishing 18-5 this season with a No. 15 ranking.

She scored 634 points this season, averaging 28. She also averaged 13.6 rebounds, 4.4 steals and four assists. In 23 games, she posted 21 double doubles and four triple doubles. She scored 30 points or more nine times, and her 1,744 career points came within 35 of the Howard County record. She also had 981 career rebounds.
Perhaps her best performance came in her career finale, scoring 35 of her team's 53 points in the regional playoff loss to a tough Gwynn Park squad.
'She got our program back on the map, as far as us trying to get back to winning and get a little respect from some of the other teams in the county,' Oakland Mills coach Seth Willingham said. 'Every year, our wins have gone up and we've become very competitive. A lot of that is due to her not just scoring and what she does on the court, but she's a great kid.'

McKenzie, who has an academic average of 3.67, signed early to play at Loyola College in downtown Baltimore, Maryland.
McKenzie had represented Guyana at the 19th CBC Championship last August in Puerto Rico where she averaged 12.6 points, 5.4 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 3.8 steals and 36:35 minutes in 5 games.