The Gatorade Company announced Jared Ridder of Kickapoo High School as its 2016-17 Gatorade Missouri Boys Basketball Player of the Year.
Ridder is the second Gatorade Missouri Boys Basketball Player of the Year to be chosen from Kickapoo High School after Spencer Laurie in 2003. The award, given for outstanding athletic excellence, high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the court, distinguishes Ridder as Missouri’s best high school boys basketball player. Ridder becomes a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year award to be announced later in March.