NC State signee Destiny Lunan named Arizona Girls Basketball Gatorade Player of the Year
NC State signee Destiny “Ky’she” Lunan needs to make room in her trophy case. The future Wolfpack guard was named Arizona’s Gatorade Player of the Year on Thursday.
Lunan averaged 21.7 points, 4.7 rebounds, 4.7 steals and 3.2 assists per game during her senior campaign at Goodyear (Ariz.) Millennium High. She dazzled on both ends of the floor during her final high school campaign, which garnered one of the top prep awards in the nation.
“In my eyes, Destiny is the clear-cut best player in Arizona this year,” Gilbert (Ariz.) Perry High coach Andrew Curtis told Gatorade. “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.”
Lunan was also named the MaxPreps Arizona Player of the Year this week.
The 5-foot-11 guard helped pace Millennium to its first Open State Tournament state title this season after she dropped 37 points in the championship game. In addition to Lunan’s state title performance, she was named the EYBL World Grind Session Championship MVP as a sophomore and was on the 2025 All-Tournament team at the Nike Tournament of Champions in Chicago.
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While her play on the court was impressive, the Gatorade Player of the Year award takes the classroom and off the court work into account, too. Lunan earned a 3.67 GPA in high school, while she volunteered her time as a youth basketball coach at the Christ’s Church of the Valley Exceptional Stars program, as well as with Unified Sports, which teams those with and without intellectual disabilities on the same sports team.
Lunan, a four-star recruit, is the No. 60 prospect in the 2025 cycle in ESPN’s HoopGurlz Top 100 rankings.
