See who readers chose as the Morning News Preseason Girls Basketball Player of the Year

The high school basketball season is off and running and there are several Savannah area girls teams looking to make their mark this season.

Calvary Day and Woodville-Tompkins are both coming off state semifinal berths last season, and are looking to have successful runs again, despite losing key players to graduation.

Savannah Morning News readers weighed in and selected the Preseason Girls Player of the Year in an open poll.

Kaiya Bryant of Jenkins was the winner, taking home 22.95 % of the vote. Lyric McIver of Liberty County (21.35 %) was second and Aniyah Browner of Jenkins was third with 9.44 %.

Here were the nominees.

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Destini Gooddine, Calvary Day, jr., G

Kayley Wedlow, Bryan County, sr., G

Brianna Pelote, Woodville-Tompkins, sr., C

Parris Parham, Bradwell Institute, jr., F

Elena Hairston, South Effingham, sr., G

Ashanti Brown, Bryan County, jr., F

Stella Oleschig, Savannah Country Day, sr., G

May Inyang, Richmond Hill, jr., G/F

Amayah Hamilton, Johnson, sr., F

Bre Jones, Calvary Day, jr., G/F

Destiny Washington, Johnson, sr., G/F

Kyjana Jordan, Effingham County, jr. G

Tatyana Anderson, Bradwell Institute, jr., G

Aziyria Phillips, Beach, sr., G

Mary Brit Tallevast, Savannah Christian, sr., G

Jada Brown, Richmond Hill, jr. F

Hayden Johanson, South Effingham, jr, G

MaKiyah Matthews, Richmond Hill, sr., PG

Ja’Nya Bush, Bradwell Institute, soph., G/F

Kaiya Bryant, Jenkins, sr., G

Aniyah Browner, Jenkins, soph., G

Leila Williams, New Hampstead, jr., G

Mia Beranger, Groves, sr., G

Lyric McIver, Liberty County, jr., F/C

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Alexis Ghaleb, St. Vincent’s, sr., G

Molly Smith, Calvary Day, soph., G

A.C. Davis, Savannah Country Day, sr., G

Trinity Meyers, Windsor Forest, sr., G

Rian Bailey, Woodville-Tompkins, sr., G

Ernajah Mallard, Savannah High, sr., G

Gray Holmes, St. Andrew's, jr., G

Anna Cadle, Habersham School, sr., G

Dennis Knight covers sports for the Savannah Morning News. Contact him at Dknight@savannahnow.com. Twitter: @DennisKnightSMN

This article originally appeared on Savannah Morning News: Bryant of Jenkins picked as Preseason Girls Hoops POY in readers' poll