Taliah Scott is ready to begin her next chapter of college basketball in the SEC.
Scott, the McDonald’s All-American guard who won Miss Basketball and Florida Dairy Farmers’ Gatorade Player of the Year honors at St. Johns Country Day and lit up the scoreboards in her first year from college at Arkansas, is transferring out of the conference to Auburn.
She announced her transfer in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday morning. She had declared her plans to leave Arkansas in March.
After averaging 22.1 points per game and earning a spot on the SEC All-Freshman team, Scott was among the most coveted transfers in the country.
She missed more than a half-dozen late-season conference games, first because of an injury and then because of a family emergency.
Taliah Scott: Achievements at St. Louis
Scott concluded his high school career with some of the most astonishing numbers in Northeast Florida sports history.
She averaged 36.2 points as a senior at St. Johns Country Day, leading the Spartans to the Florida High School Athletic Association Final Four for the first time in more than 30 years, and won the Times’ Player of the Year award. Union. award for 2021-22 and 2022-23.
In his high school career, Scott totaled 2,735 points, counting his previous stints at Bolles and Oakleaf. His career point tally is in the top five ever recorded in Northeast Florida.
She became just the fourth McDonald’s All-American in area women’s basketball history, joining the Ribault trio of Shante Williams, Erica White and Rennia Davis.
This article originally appeared in the Florida Times-Union: Taliah Scott: Former St. Johns Country Day star transfers to Auburn
