Kansas Athletics
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas men's basketball signee Darryn Peterson has been named the 2025 Jersey Mike's Naismith Boys High School Player of the Year, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced today.
Peterson is the third Jayhawk to win the Naismith Boys High School Player of the Year honor joining Andrew Wiggins in 2013 and Cliff Alexander in 2014. The award started in 1987.
A 6-foot-5 guard from Canton, Ohio, Peterson is nationally ranked No. 2 by ESPN.com and 247Sports.com, and No. 3 by Rivals.com and On3.com. A 2025 McDonald's All-American, Peterson is playing his senior prep season at Prolific Prep in Napa, California, where he averages 30.4 points, 6.8 rebounds, 7.4 assists and 2.2 steals per game. He shoots 52 percent from the field and 86 percent from the free throw line as Prolific Prep has posted a 28-5 record.
Peterson played his first two years of high school basketball at Cuyahoga Falls High School in Cuyahoga, Ohio, and then transferred to Huntington Prep in West Virginia in 2023-24 before moving on to Prolific Prep. He played club basketball for Phenom United where he averaged 28.2 points, 7.2 rebounds, 4.6 assists, 4.2 steals and 3.0 blocked shot per game this past summer in the Adidas 3Stripes Select league.
In 2023, Peterson won a gold medal with USA Basketball at the FIBA Under-16 Americas Championship in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. At the championship, Peterson averaged 16.8 points, 3.8 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 3.3 steals in earning all-tournament honors.