More awards pile up for three Springfield area basketball players, including Kickapoo senior Jared Ridder.
USA TODAY High School Sports announced the American Family Insurance ALL-USA Missouri Boys Basketball Team. Players were selected based on their athletic achievements from the 2016-17 season. Ridder was named Player of the Year.
A Xavier basketball signee and the all-time leading scorer at Kickapoo, Ridder had previously been named Mr. Show-Me Basketball, the Missouri Gatorade Player of the Year and the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Class 5 Player of the Year.
Ridder scored 1,628 points in his high school career, and 745 of those fell his senior season.