Incoming Irish forward Kate Koval has earned one of the top honors a high school basketball player can. On Tuesday, Koval was one of 24 girls players to be named to the roster for the 2024 McDonald’s All American Games.
Koval, a 6-5 post who ranks as the No. 5 overall recruit in the 2024 class per the ESPN HoopGurlz Rankings, is originally from Ukraine but plays her high school basketball at Long Island Lutheran (Brookville, N.Y.). She was the 2022-23 Gatorade New York Girls Basketball Player of the Year after posting 15.1 points, 11.7 rebounds and 3.4 blocks per game. Koval had a 60.7 percent success rate from the floor.
Most recently, Koval was named First-Team All-Showcase at the HoopHall Classic in Springfield, Mass. She scored 32 points in her sole game, the most of any player at the mid-January event.
Notre Dame currently has six McDonald’s All Americans on its roster: KK Bransford, Sonia Citron, Hannah Hidalgo, Emma Risch, Kylee Watson, Maddy Westbeld. Hidalgo made noise last season with a 26-point performance at the game, breaking the scoring record and earning co-MVP honors.
The 2024 game will be played in Houston at the Toyota Center on April 2. It will be televised on ESPN2 at 6:30 p.m.
The full team can be found here.