One more award for Goodyear Millennium senior guard Destiny “Ky’She” Lunan.

Lunan was named the 2024-25 Arizona Gatorade Girls Basketball Player of the Year . This past season, Lunan was tied for No. 1 in scoring in the 6A conference at 20.1 points per game. She also averaged 4.6 rebounds, 4.2 steals and 3.1 assists per game as Lunan helped lead the Tigers to the Arizona Interscholastic Association Open Division state championship.

In the title game, Lunan had one of the all-time performances in state history, personally outscoring Surprise Valley Vista with a 37-point effort as Millennium won 57-31.

“In my eyes, Destiny is the clear-cut best player in Arizona this year,” Andrew Curtis, head coach at Gilbert Perry, said in a press release. “When preparing to play against her, you have to spend just as much time worrying about her at both the offensive and defensive ends of the floor. Very few players in the country are elite on both ends of the floor, and she’s one of them.”

It is the second time a Millennium athlete has won the award, joining guard Dominique Phillips, who did so in 2018-19. With Lunan, that means three athletes from the West Valley have been named Gatorade Player of the Year since 2020 with Valley Vista’s Jennah Isai and Marisa Davis.

Lunan is a four-star prospect ranked as the nation’s No. 60 recruit in the Class of 2025 by espnW who has signed with North Carolina State and is widely viewed as the best player in the state. Every season that Lunan played in high school ended with a championship.

She started her career at Valley Vista, winning a state title as a freshman. Lunan then transferred to Scottsdale Bella Vista Prep, where she helped guide the Bears to the EYBL World Grind Session championship and was named MVP. After her time with Bella Vista, Lunan returned to the prep school scene, where she had to sit out her junior season because of the transfer.

After winning the Open, Lunan was asked what she hoped her high school legacy would be.

"When you hear Ky'She, you think of me. You think of what I did to this game. I just wanted to make a mark, make a stand for all the little people who want to do this thing. I'm just here to tell if you keep God first, you can do anything.''

This past season, Millennium finished 25-6 on the season and earned the No. 2 seed in the playoffs on the way to the Open state title.

After winning the Open, Millennium coach Danny Solimon was effusive in talking about Lunan.

"She's a winner,'' he said. "She's competitive. She's a leader. Those are three words I use to describe her.''

Logan Stanley is a sports reporter with The Arizona Republic who primarily focuses on high school, ASU and Olympic sports. To suggest ideas for human-interest stories and other news, reach out to Stanley at [email protected] or 707-293-7650. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter: @LSscribe .