Amari Whiting Season 2023-2024
#1PositionGuard
Height5-10
ClassFreshman
HometownBoise, Idaho
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BYU Highlights
- Big 12 Freshman of the Week (Feb. 12, 2024)
- Flirted with the first triple-double in BYU women's basketball history with 14 points on 5-of-8 shooting with a career-high nine assists and eight rebounds in win over No. 18 Baylor
- Started all 63 games for BYU during her two seasons in Provo
- Scored a career-high 24 points on 10-of-11 shooting with seven rebounds and five assists against Kansas on Feb. 25, 2025
- Grabbed a career-high 12 rebounds on Dec. 16, 2023 against Idaho State
- Named to the 2024 Cancun Challenge Mayan Division All-Tournament Team
- Recorded two career double-doubles while playing for the Cougars
Before BYU
- 2022 Idaho Gatorade Player of the Year
- 4A All-Idaho Player of the Year (2021 & 2022)
- GB7 Conference Player of the Year (2021 & 2022)
- Times News Player of the Year (2020, 2021, 2022)
- 2022 4A Idaho State Champions
- 2022 SBlive Idaho Player of the Year
- 2022 IdahoSports 4A Tournament Player of the Year
- 2020 GB10 All-Conference First Team
- 2x WBCA Player of the Week
- 4x SBlive ID Player of the Week
- IHSAA Athlete of the Week
- 4.0 High School GPA; High Honors Society
- Also enjoys reading and dancing
- Lived in Italy for nine years while her father, Trent played professional basketball
Personal
- Born in Boise, Idaho
- Daughter of Trent and Amber Whiting
- Her older brother Jace plays basketball at Boise State University
- Father Trent (2000-01) and her mother Amber (2000-01) played basketball at BYU
- Also recruited by Oregon, Arizona, Stanford, UCLA and Utah
- Committed to Oregon in 2021, but flipped her commitment to BYU during the summer of 2022