Camdyn Nelson Named Gatorade Player of the Year in Connecticut
3/13/2025 12:29:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Syracuse commit Camdyn Nelson of New Canaan, Conn., was named the Gatorade Connecticut Girls Basketball Player of the Year in Connecticut on Thursday. Nelson, a senior standout at St. Luke's School helped the Storm (15-11) to an appearance in the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council Class B championship game this past season. She averaged 17.2 points, 5.0 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 2.7 steals per game while shooting 39 percent from three-point range.
A 5-foot-8 guard, Nelson was named NEPSAC Class B Player of the Year is the No. 91 ranked player in the Class of 2025 by 247Sports. She spends time volunteering locally organizing clothing and food drives fro local homeless shelters and launched a youth training program for aspiring basketball players in her community.Â
Nelson joins her older sister Mackenzie Nelson (2022-23, 2021-22) as a Gatorade State Player of the Year. The two Nelsons will face off in the ACC next year as Mackenzie will be a redshirt sophomore at Virginia Tech when Camdyn enrolls at Syracuse.
Nelson is the first Syracuse commit of the Felisha Legette-Jack era to earn Gatorade Player of the Year honors for their respective state. She's the first SU commit to earn the honor since Emily Engstler (NY) in 2017-18. The last player to don the Orange uniform and have a Gatorade State Player of the Year banner in their name was Eboni Walker (NV) who signed with Arizona State out of high school before transferring to Syracuse later in her career for the 2021-22 season.Â
The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states across 12 different high school sports – 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 the Gatorade Player of the Year Selection Committee, which leverages experts including coaches, scouts, media and others as sources to help evaluate and determine the state winners in each sport.
As part of Gatorade's commitment to breaking down barriers in sport, every Player of the Year also receives a grant to donate to a social impact partner. To date, the Gatorade Player of the Year program has provided more than $5.6 million in grants to winners across more than 2,000 organizations. To learn more about the Gatorade Player of the Year program, check out past winners or to nominate student - athletes, visit playeroftheyear.gatorade.com.
A 5-foot-8 guard, Nelson was named NEPSAC Class B Player of the Year is the No. 91 ranked player in the Class of 2025 by 247Sports. She spends time volunteering locally organizing clothing and food drives fro local homeless shelters and launched a youth training program for aspiring basketball players in her community.Â
Nelson joins her older sister Mackenzie Nelson (2022-23, 2021-22) as a Gatorade State Player of the Year. The two Nelsons will face off in the ACC next year as Mackenzie will be a redshirt sophomore at Virginia Tech when Camdyn enrolls at Syracuse.
Nelson is the first Syracuse commit of the Felisha Legette-Jack era to earn Gatorade Player of the Year honors for their respective state. She's the first SU commit to earn the honor since Emily Engstler (NY) in 2017-18. The last player to don the Orange uniform and have a Gatorade State Player of the Year banner in their name was Eboni Walker (NV) who signed with Arizona State out of high school before transferring to Syracuse later in her career for the 2021-22 season.Â
The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states across 12 different high school sports – 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 the Gatorade Player of the Year Selection Committee, which leverages experts including coaches, scouts, media and others as sources to help evaluate and determine the state winners in each sport.
As part of Gatorade's commitment to breaking down barriers in sport, every Player of the Year also receives a grant to donate to a social impact partner. To date, the Gatorade Player of the Year program has provided more than $5.6 million in grants to winners across more than 2,000 organizations. To learn more about the Gatorade Player of the Year program, check out past winners or to nominate student - athletes, visit playeroftheyear.gatorade.com.
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