The Gatorade Player of The Year Award recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the court. Since the program’s inception in 1985, Gatorade Player of the Year award recipients have won hundreds of professional and college championships, and many have also turned into pillars in their communities, becoming coaches, business owners, and educators.

For the fifth consecutive year, the Lady Raider volleyball program boasts the top player in the state. Senior Kaylee Lowther was named the 2023-2024 Gatorade Mississippi Volleyball Player of the Year. This is the tenth time in the last 11 years a Jackson Academy athlete has received a Gatorade Mississippi Player of The Year distinction. Kaylee is also the first Libero to ever win the coveted award in the state of Mississippi. The Lady Raiders have now received the coveted Gatorade State Award for volleyball a staggering six times.

This season JA also continued their dominant run in the MAIS and took home their fifth straight MAIS State Volleyball Championship as they finished 35-13. JA has now won nine state titles since volleyball began at Jackson Academy in the 2011-12 school year and in the current five year title run the Lady Raiders have amassed a record of 185-33.

Kaylee was named a 2023 Maxpreps Preseason 2nd Team All-American, 2023 Maxpreps Best Player in the state. 2023 SBLive Top Libero in the Nation, 2023 All-Star, AVCA Best and Brightest 1st Team, 2023 & 2021 Under Armour Next Camp. She was also named the Scorebook Live National Libero of the Year, named an American Volleyball Coaches Association First Team All-American and a MaxPreps Second Team All-American. This season she finished with a new school season record as she logged 719 Digs. She also recorded 86 aces, 122 assists, and 605 receptions this year. The MAIS Division I Player of the Year, she concluded her prep volleyball career with 1,642 digs.” In the classroom she made 2023 Academy Honor roll 1st quarter, 2022 Honor roll 1st-3rd quarters, 2022 Academy Honor roll 4th quarter, 2022 & 2023 AAU Academic All American. She will be continuing her academic and athletic career in volleyball with the University of Southern Mississippi in the fall.