Kris Jenkins Named Gatorade D.C. Boys Basketball Player of the Year

Kris Jenkins

 Named

 Gatorade D.C.

Boys Basketball Player of the Year

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In its 27th year of honoring the nation's best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPNHS, today announced Kris Jenkins of Gonzaga (Washington, District of Columbia) High School as its 2011-12 Gatorade District of Columbia Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Jenkins is the sixth Gatorade District of Columbia Boys Basketball Player of the Year to be chosen from Gonzaga College High School. The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the court, distinguishes Jenkins as District of Columbia's best high school boys basketball player. The 6-foot-6, 250-pound junior wing averaged 19.8 points, 10.6 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 3.9 steals and 1.2 blocks per game this past season, leading the Eagles (27-7) to the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference championship game and a fourth-place finish at the national Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament. Also the WCAC Player of the Year and a two-time First Team All-WCAC selection, he captured tournament Most Valuable Player honors at this winter's Cancer Research Classic in West Virginia, Basketball Hall of Fame Spalding Hoophall Classic in Massachusetts and the Piggly Wiggly Roundball Classic in South Carolina.
The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport. The selection process is administered by ESPNHS and the Gatorade high school sports leadership team, which work with top sport-specific experts and a media advisory board of accomplished, veteran prep sports journalists to determine the state winners in each sport.
Jenkins joins recent Gatorade District of Columbia Boys Basketball Players of the Year Nate Britt (2010-11, Gonzaga College High School), Tyler Thornton (2009-10, Gonzaga College), Ian Hummer (2008-09, Gonzaga College High School), Max Kenyi (2007-08, Gonzaga College High School), and Chris Wright (2006 07, St. John's College) among the state's list of former award winners.