St. Louis Catholic's Paris Guillory floats in the air while taking a shot during the first half of the Division II select state championship game against Lafayette Christian on Saturday at Southeastern Louisiana's University Center.

Record-breaking St. Louis Catholic star Paris Guillory and four-time was voted Outstanding Player on the Louisiana Sports Writers Association high school Class 3A All-State girls basketball team.

Iowa boys coach Rob Melanson was voted boys Coach of the Year.

Guillory, a Louisiana Tech signee, was her team’s lone returning starter from its 2022 championship run.

And she capped her decorated prep career with a 41-point semifinal to the single-game state tournament scoring record (Kim Mulkey, Hammond, 1980), then another 27 points in the final to break the two-game state tournament mark for Class 3A/Division II (Brenda Porter, Amite, 1970).

St. Louis finished 27-7 as state runner-up in the Division II select bracket.

Melanson coached Iowa to a 29-6 record, including a 14-game winning streak, an 11-1 record and co-championship in a challenging District 3-3A, and the first state tournament appearance in program history.

The Yellow Jackets had won two playoff games from 2011 to 2020 — first-round games in 2016 and 2017 — and missed the postseason entirely twice in that span.

But Melanson and company have built from a 2018 playoff absence to a second-round appearance in 2021 and runs to the 2022 quarterfinals and 2023 semis.

Class 3A

Boys

First Team

Player, School Ht. Cl. Avg.

Rictavion Johnson, Carroll 5-11 Sr. 12.5

Courtney McCarthy, Richwood 6-5 Sr. 28.8

Josh Smith, Madison Prep 6-2 Jr. 13.0

Elliot McQuillan, Port Allen 6-3 Sr. 20.0

Isaiah Howard, Port Allen 6-3 Sr. 16.0

Second Team

Player, School Ht. Cl. Avg.

Jordan Comanche, Wossman 6-6 Jr. 14.1

Jaylen Welch, Bolton 6-1 Sr. 24.0

Demond Davis, Patterson 6-4 Jr. 15.0

Dylan Dominique, Madison Prep 6-0 Sr. 12.0

Dashawn Ceasar, Iowa 6-2 Jr. 21.6

OUTSTANDING PLAYER— Elliot Mcquillan, Port Allen

COACH OF THE YEAR— Rob Melanson, Iowa

HONORABLE MENTION— Jae’Kwon Gulley, Caldwell Parish; Blane Parish, Buckeye; Kendall Francois, Patterson; Cornelius Brown, Kennedy; Desamonte Gradney, Iowa; Cooper Nelson, Sterlington; Damien Walters, Union; Xzander Washington, Richwood; Ryan Batiste, Lake Charles College Prep; Elijah Garrick, Lake Charles College Prep; M.J. Sternfels, E.D. White; Kobe Brown, St. James; Chase Schonberg, Donaldsonville; Jayvyn Duncan, St. Martinville, Lavion Owens, Carroll; Antron Mason II, Wossman; Cardez Norman, Sterlington; Seth Mays, University; Jayce Depron, Madison Prep; Davante Landry, Sophie B. Wright.

Girls

First Team

Player, School Ht. Cl. Avg.

Anyra Wilson, Wossman 5-7 So. 13.1

DaNaya Ross, Wossman 5-8 Jr. 14.6

Paris Guillory, St. Louis Catholic 5-9 Sr. 27.1

Haley Brumfield, Amite 5-8 Jr. 19.0

Aubrey Hoyt, Albany 5-10 Jr. 15.0

Second Team

Player, School Ht. Cl. Avg.

Sky Montgomery, Bolton 5-9 Sr. 24.6

Carlesia Fields, Bunkie 5-7 Jr. 24.7

Caroline Adams, E.D. White 5-8 Jr. 21.3

Addyson Bernhard, Parkview 5-4 Jr. 13.6

D’Jaiyah Levy, Abbeville 5-8 So. 20.0

OUTSTANDING PLAYER — Paris Guillory, St. Louis Catholic

COACH OF THE YEAR — Brett Shelton, Parkview Baptist

HONORABLE MENTION — Ramiah Augurson, Wossman; Mariah Heard, Bastrop; Hope Tucker, Sterlington; Shelbi Moses, Buckeye; Raelyn Gunter, South Beauregard; Leah Varisco, Sacred Heart-New Orleans; Ava Shields, Albany; Lybi Cross, Buckeye; Kylee Savant, Doyle; Kennedy Aldridge, University; Anna Richardson, Parkview Baptist; Shaine Parker, Church Point; Jalyn Williams, South Beauregard.