{"id":169525,"date":"2026-03-20T19:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169525\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:28:06","slug":"stepinacs-jasiah-jervis-named-new-york-gatorade-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169525\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepinac&#8217;s Jasiah Jervis Named New York Gatorade Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trophy cabinet in the Jervis household is getting crowded.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Stepinac High School senior guard Jasiah Jervis just added New York <a href=\"https:\/\/playeroftheyear.gatorade.com\/winner\/jasiah-jervis\/41512\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gatorade Player of the Year<\/a> for basketball to a list of accolades that has\u00a0established\u00a0him as one of the country\u2019s\u00a0elite\u00a0prospects.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Only one player per state receives the annual honor presented by the beverage company. \u201cAt the time of his\u00a0selection, the 6-foot-5, 190-pound senior guard had led the Crusaders to a 25-4 record and a berth in the PSAL vs. CHSAA Champions Challenge. Jervis averaged 17.6 points, 5.8 rebounds, 4.8 assists, and 2.0 steals through 29 games,\u201d Gatorade said on its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/playeroftheyear.gatorade.com\/winner\/jasiah-jervis\/41512\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The award also cited Jervis\u2019 \u201cexemplary character,\u201d\u00a0stating, \u201cA Westchester Con Edison Scholar Athlete of the Week, Jervis has volunteered locally with Meals on Main Street and as a youth basketball coach. He has also donated his time as an Archbishop Stepinac school ambassador and with the Crusader Cares program.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riverjournalonline.com\/around-town\/sports\/stepinac-makes-history-with-three-2026-mcdonalds-all-americans\/292087\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">READ: Three Stepinac Basketball Stars Named to 2026 McDonald\u2019s\u00a0All-American\u00a0Team<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a tremendous honor for a great young man who has worked so hard on and off the court! His development has been a credit to him and his family and the time he has put into his game,\u201d Stepinac Head Basketball Coach Patrick Massaroni told\u00a0The Good\u00a0Newsroom\u00a0by\u00a0email. \u201cA true team player with a high awarding individual honor in Gatorade Player of the Year!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this season, after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thegoodnewsroom.org\/archbishop-stepinac-high-school-shooting-guard-jasiah-jervis-commits-to-michigan-state-university\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">committing<\/a>\u00a0to play for the Michigan State Spartans at the college level in October, Jervis was named a McDonald\u2019s All-American, along with Stepinac teammates Adonis and Darius Ratliff, and was then recognized as the Catholic High School Athletic League\u2019s most valuable player for the \u201cAA\u201d boys\u2019 basketball division.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jervis will play his final game in a Crusaders uniform on Sunday, March 22, when Stepinac takes on Public School Athletic League champions Eagle Academy for the all-city championship, at Long Island University\u2019s Brooklyn campus Steinberg Wellness Center, at 5 p.m. He will then join the Ratliff brothers in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 31 for the McDonald\u2019s All-American Game.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trophy cabinet in the Jervis household is getting crowded.\u00a0\u00a0 Archbishop Stepinac High School senior guard Jasiah Jervis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69452,41172,69453,6300,4840,69454,69455,69456,69457,69458,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-169525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-adonis-ratliff","tag-archbishop-stepinac","tag-archbishop-stepinac-high-school","tag-catholic","tag-catholic-church","tag-coach-patrick-massaroni","tag-jasiah-jervis","tag-michigan-state","tag-michigan-state-university","tag-michigan-state-university-spartans","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}