2025-26 5Star Preps Girls Basketball Player of the Year: Meeyah Green, Webb School of Knoxville

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BY DAVE LINK

Meeyah Green has been attending Webb School of Knoxville since the fifth grade, and she graduates high school on May 17.

The Clemson basketball signee has learned all about time management at Webb, spending countless hours in the gym and classroom while becoming an NCAA Division I student athlete.

Green won’t have time to take a breather after graduating. Her time management skills will be put to the test again.

Two days after Webb’s graduation, Green will have her wisdom teeth pulled. A couple days later, she goes on vacation with her family.

They return to Knoxville on May 30.

Green moves into her Clemson dorm May 31.

“It’s going to be a pretty hectic month, but I’m ready for it,” said Green, the 5Star Preps Girls Player of the Year.

Green was ready for everything that came with being at Webb. Challenging academics. Being pushed athletically. A coaching change.

Green’s varsity basketball career at Webb began when she was in the eighth grade — she was a starting guard for the 2022 team that reached the Division II-AA Final Four — playing her first two seasons under coach Shelley Collier.

After Collier resigned from Webb in summer of 2023, Green played her last three seasons under coach Greg Hernandez.

Green helped the Lady Spartans to a state runner-up finish in 2024 and led them to state titles the past two seasons.

“Webb’s known as a pretty high culture of winning championships,” Green said on May 4. “I think with coach (Hernandez) coming on a couple of years ago, he held up to those expectations as well. He’s a great coach. So is coach Collier.

“They’ve just pushed all the teams that have been through Webb, whether they’ve been to the finals or not, there’s been expectations of being able to put in the work and being tough mentally and being strong teams physically and being able to push ourselves. That helped us get to the finals and win two championships.”

CAREER AT WEBB

Meeyah was the second of the Green siblings attending Webb, following her brother Jaylon, a 2023 graduate who primarily played basketball for the Spartans. Jaylon was a senior guard on Maryville College’s basketball team this past season.

The Green’s parents, Sean and Lindsay, liked what they saw when Jaylon went to Webb, so they sent Meeyah there.

“Webb’s just a great community,” Meeyah said. “Also, basketball wise, pretty early on, I was practicing with some of the middle schoolers like in the fifth grade, and then eventually got connected with the high school and coach Collier, and she pushed me and helped me a lot. I’ve been pretty connected with basketball ever since I came in fifth grade, and it’s helped a lot.”

Meeyah’s basketball talents were evident from the get-go. She flourished under Collier and Hernandez, committing to Clemson in November of 2024.

Green was the state’s Miss Basketball Award winner for Division II-AA the past two seasons.

“She’s the ultimate team player, one of the most unselfish superstars that you’ll ever come across,” Hernandez said. “I think she did more to make sure her teammates got involved and made sure her teammates were a part of the success as much as she was concerned about trying to get her own stats. She’s one of those kids as a coach you dream of coaching one day. She’s a special kid.”

Green can play any backcourt position – point guard, shooting guard, or wing – and can defend all positions as well.

As a senior, Green averaged 14.2 points per game, 6.2 rebounds, 4.5 assists, and 2.1 steals. She made 47.8 percent of her two-point shots, 37.1 percent from 3-point range, and 62.5 percent from the free-throw line.

She earned 2025 and 2026 Division II State Tournament MVPs, even getting the game-winning bucket with 8 seconds left to win the state title game on March 7.

“She was the engine (of the team),” Hernandez said. “She was the main driver in everything that we did. But her ability to do multiple things at different times offensively and defensively is what makes her truly so special. She could knock down the 3 when she had to. She can get to the free-throw line. She can score around the rim.

“But her greatest ability was her ability to pass and find her teammates. She probably made some of the best passes I’ve ever seen over the past couple of years. It was because she never missed her target. She always found her teammates when they were open, at the right time, in their hands, ready to shoot. You can’t teach that kind of stuff, and she’s had that stuff since she was little.”

HEADING TO CLEMSON

Since the Lady Spartans won the 2026 state title, Green has focused on finishing high school and getting ready for Clemson.

She got her workout plans from Clemson on May 4 and has an app on her phone for how to implement the workouts. Webb’s Director of Sports Performance, Lexus McDaniel, has been helping Green with her strength and conditioning.

“She’s great,” Green said. “I’ve been in the gym with Coach G (Hernandez) a lot. I’ve been in the gym with my dad, just finding places to play. I’ve been playing with some of the boys at Webb, just trying to get ready, staying in condition. And on the weekends, me and my mom go running.”

Hernandez believes Green is ready for Clemson and college ball.

“I think her ability to play with the ball in her hands and her ability to play without it is going to suit her for the next level,” Hernandez said. “(Clemson) Coach (Shawn) Poppie and their staff do such a good job in what they do offensively, I think it’s going to be a seamless transition for her. And too, I think her being physically ready is what’s going to help her with that.

“Her body is what is needed for that next level and what’s needed for her size-wise, strength-wise, speed-wise, I think it suits her really well. I think she has all the skillsets needed to be a point guard at the next level and I think she’s going to have a good transition.”

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2020 — Denae Fritz, Maryville
2019 — Jada Guinn, Oak Ridge