Camdyn Nelson, a Greenwich resident and St. Luke’s School senior, was recently chosen as the 2024-25 Gatorade Connecticut Girls Basketball Player of the Year, Gatorade announced.

Nelson is the second Gatorade Connecticut Girls Basketball Player of the Year to be chosen from St. Luke’s School. Her older sister Mackenzie Nelson, who is a member of the Virginia Tech women’s basketball team, was named the Gatorade Connecticut Girls Basketball Player of the Year Gatorade Player of the Year in 2021-2022 and 2022-2023. The honor celebrates the nation’s best high school athletes for their success on the court, in the classroom and in the community.

The award distinguishes Nelson as Connecticut’s best high school girls basketball player, and Camdyn Nelson joins an impressive group of alumni that spans CEOs, coaches and star athletes such as Candace Parker (2002-03 & 2003-04, Naperville Central High School, Illinois), Paige Bueckers (2019-20, Hopkins High School, Minnesota) and Joyce Edwards (2023-24, Camden High School, South Carolina). The 5-foot-8 senior guard led the Storm (15-11) to the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council Class B championship game this past season. Nelson averaged 17.2 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 2.7 steals, shooting 39 percent from 3-point range. The 2023-24 NEPSAC Class B Player of the Year, Nelson is ranked as the No. 91 player in the Class of 2025 by 247Sports.

Nelson has volunteered locally by helping organize both clothing and food drives for local homeless shelters. She has also launched her own basketball training program for youth players.

“She gets it done on both ends of the floor,” said Scotty Nails, head basketball coach at Hopkins School. “There are games where she’s out there running the team and getting everybody involved, and there are games where she can score 30 points.”

Nelson has maintained a B-plus average in the classroom. She has signed a written letter of athletic aid to play basketball at Syracuse University this fall. 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.

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.