Choctaw senior Nadia Fingall goes up for a shot challenged by Fort Myers' player during the 6A Girls state semifinals game in Lakeland.
Seth Stringer, nwfdailynews.com, March 4, 2016
Nadia Fingall carries a lot of monikers.
McDonald’s All-American is one.
All Sports Association Scholastic Female is another.
How about Back-to-back Daily News Basketball Player of the Year, an honor preceding this year's Athlete of the Week honor?
Oh, yeah, don’t forget blue-chipper, a label earned by her five-star, 97 scout grade on ESPN that has her ranked as the seventh best forward in the nation.
Of course that beget her label as a Stanford signee.
On Friday the 6-foot-4 Choctaw senior added another sobriquet to the mix: Florida’s Miss Basketball.
“It’s truly an honor to represent my family, school and state as Miss Basketball,” Fingall said. “I had some stiff competition from some equally amazing young women, all of whom I’ve played with or against.”
Stiff competition, indeed.
Fingall, on the heels of a campaign where she averaged 18.3 points, 11.4 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 3.0 blocks per game in leading the Indians to a 26-6 record and a spot in the 6A final four, totaled 115 points to finish just ahead of 2A POY and University of Louisville signee from Florida A&M (111) and 8A POY and Yale University signee of Vero Beach (108).
It was the closest vote in the 24-year history of the Miss Basketball award, and Fingall’s 21-point, 15-rebound, five-assist effort in a final four loss likely left an indelible last impression on The Florida Dairy Farmers High School Sports Awards program voting panel.
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