Nation's No. 1 recruit Aaliyah Chavez scores nearly 100 points in back-to-back games

Lubbock (Texas) Monterey guard Aaliyah Chavez has proven time and time again why she is considered the nation’s No. 1 high schools girls basketball recruit in the 2025 class.

After the 2023-2024 season, Chavez was named the Texas Girls’ Basketball Gatorade Player of the Year. It was a season where she broke school records for points in a season, points in a career and most 3-pointers in a game. She also shattered the school record with 57 points in a game.

But she is still out to prove just how well she can fill up a score sheet. Over two games at the Caprock (Texas) Classic in Lubbock over the weekend, Chavez tallied nearly 100 combined points. In the first contest, an 89-53 win over Pampa, she poured in 27 points in the second quarter alone en route to 53 for the game.

That included six 3-pointers for one of the nation’s top sharpshooters.

A day later, she scored 44 of her team’s 77 points as they dominated El Paso Eastwood in a 48-point blowout victory. The first performance was the six 50-point game of her career, she has gone over 40 on 25 occasions. She broke onto the scene as a freshman in 2021-22 with 50 points in a contest and then topped that again last season with her record-breaking 57-point outburst.

Chavez chasing 5,000 points and a state title

As a junior, the 5-foot-9 Chavez averaged 35.6 points, 8.4 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game. She has improved slightly on those numbers as a senior, scoring 35.8 points, grabbing 9.1 rebounds, dishing out 3.9 assists and and totaling 3.9 steals per game.

She is less than 900 points shy of 5,000 for her high school career with 10 games to go before the state playoffs. The Lady Plainsmen are also in search of a state title this year after losing each of the last two seasons in the Class 5A regionals.

In her recruitment, Chavez is down to five schools: Texas, Texas Tech, UCLA, South Carolina and Oklahoma.

According to On3’s Talia Goodman, “sources involved in her recruitment believe that Texas, Texas Tech and Oklahoma are still the programs in the lead following her official visits.”