Four Times-area girls basketball coaches, including Ottawa High School's Brent Moore and Seneca High School's Josh Myers, were recently recognized as Illinois Basketball Coaches Association District 12 Coaches of the Year.

Honoring 25 of the area's best high school girls basketball players as selected by The Times Sports staff, here is the 2024-25 Times All-Area Girls Basketball Team.

Ottawa senior Marlie Orlandi is the 2024-25 Times Girls Basketball Player of the Year.

The Interstate 8 announced its all-conference picks for basketball, dance, cheerleading, bowling and wrestling.

Plano senior guard Josie Larson repeated as the Kishwaukee River Conference Girls Basketball Player of the Year, while Marengo led the All-KRC team with three selections. Check out the full team here.

The Interstate Eight, Illinois Central Eight, Tri-County, Little Ten, Kishwaukee River and Heart of Illinois conferences have released their All-Conference girls basketball teams for 2024-25 season.

Bishop McNamara broke a tie at halftime with a second-half run to end Seneca's season in the 2A Herscher Sectional semifinals.

The Ottawa girls basketball team's season came to an end in Tuesday's Class 3A Ottawa Sectional semifinals as Morton scored the opening 13 points of the final quarter on the way to a 59-46 victory at Kingman Gym.

Cissna Park had an obvious size advantage Tuesday in its 1A sectional semifinal and used it to defeat Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland 42-30.