The top two teams in Class AA each receive two girls on the All-State First Team as O’Gorman and Brandon Valley showed why they were the best two teams in the state all season.
Both O’Gorman and Brandon Valley lost one game each. OG lost to Brandon Valley in the first game of the season and Brandon Valley lost the state championship game to O’Gorman as it was the Lynx and Lady Knights the entire year competing for the top spot. Brandon Valley had the player of the year in AA in Alyvia Padgett as the senior averaged 26 points per game while have 4.5 rebounds and 2.9 steals a game. It’s her second straight player of the year award. Gracie Satter joins her on the first team while Sydney Terveen and Ruby Moore each made the All-State first team and are joined by Jefferson’s Brinley Altenburg and Washington’s Dana Harpe. Four of the six members on the second team All-State are out of the ESD and another three on the honorable mention are from the ESD.
You can see a full list of the All-State teams below.
CLASS AA
First Team
Alyvia Padgett, Brandon Valley, 5-7, sr., G (26 points, 4.5 rebounds & 2.9 assists per game. 63 steals)
Sydney Terveen, O’Gorman, 5-11, sr., G (18.4 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 2.5 apg, 67 steals)
Brinley Altenburg, SF Jefferson, 5-10, jr., G (18.8 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 2 apg)
Dana Harpe, SF Washington, 6-0, sr., G (18.2 ppg, 6.8 rpg)
Ruby Moore, O’Gorman, 5-8, jr., G (15.3 ppg, 4.6 apg, 82 steals)
Gracie Salter, Brandon Valley, 5-11, sr., F (12.2 ppg, 8.3 rpg, 2.8 apg, 34 blocks)
Second Team
Addie Siemsen, Mitchell, 5-8, sr., G (18.4 ppg, 5.9 rpg, 2.8 apg)
Hylton Heinz, Huron, 5-8, sr., G (20.6 ppg, 5 rpg, 2.2 apg)
Leah Landry, RC Central, 5-9, jr., G-F (15.5 ppg, 10 rpg, 3.3 apg)
Taryn Hermansen, Aberdeen Central, 6-1, sr., C (12.3 ppg, 8.4 rpg)
Lauryn Burckhard, Aberdeen Central, 6-1, jr., F (12.7 ppg, 7.7 rpg, 2.4 apg)
Josie Biteler, Sioux Falls Washington, 5-10, so. G (13.5 ppg, 5 rpg, 4.5 apg, 60 steals)
Honorable Mention
Henlee Loof, Sioux Falls Roosevelt, 5-8, so., G (14 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 2 apg)
Jayna VanLaecken, Tea Area, 5-9, fr., G (11.2 ppg, 5.6 rpg, 41 steals)
Eden Wolfgram, Yankton, 5-5, jr., G (13.3 ppg, 4 rpg, 50 steals)
Kate Scharf, Spearfish, 5-7, sr., G (13.9 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 40 steals)
Ava Kellenberger, Brandon Valley, 5-8, sr., G (9.7 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 64 steals)
Sadie Mehrman, O’Gorman, 5-10, sr., G (8.3 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 3.6 apg)
Player of the Year — Padgett, also in 2025.
Repeat Selections — 2025 (Padgett, Terveen, Altenburg and Moore, first team; Harpe, Salter, Landry and Burckhard, second team; Siemsen, Heinz, Hermansen and Wolfgram, honorable mention); 2024 (Padgett and Altenburg, first team; Hermansen, second team; and Siemsen, honorable mention).
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