VYPE Magazine Announces the Shelter Insurance Mr. & Miss Basketball Oklahoma Award Winners: Jalen Montonati from Owasso and Caya Smith from Putnam City West
Tulsa, OK (April, 2024) – VYPE Magazine and Shelter Insurance are proud to announce the 2023-24 Mr. and Miss Basketball Oklahoma Award winners are Jalen Montonati from Owasso High School and Caya Smith from Putnam City West High School.
The Shelter Insurance Mr. and Miss Basketball award recognizes the outstanding efforts Montonati, and Smith gave this season as they both led their teams to a state championship. Montonati and Smith join a distinguished list of players named to the top honor in the state of Oklahoma.
During the 2023-24 season, Montonati averaged 25 points, 5.0 rebounds, and 2.5 assists per game and shot 86 percent from the free throw line. Montonati helped the Rams to a 57-53 win over Edmond North in the state finals. Montonati is nationally ranked in the top 10 for the class of 2026. Montonati is the second player from Owasso High School to win the award.
The five finalists for the 2023-24 Shelter Insurance Mr. Basketball Oklahoma award were Jalen Montonati – Owasso, Dylan Warlick – Edmond North, Dayton Forsythe – Dale, Luke Gray – OCS, and Zac Brown – Collinsville.
“Oklahoma is home to a deep pool of talented basketball players, and several of those players have gone on to win Mr. Basketball and later play in the NBA. Jalen Montonati is cut from that same cloth, and we get to watch him for two more seasons!” VYPE Publisher Austin Chadwick.
Previous Shelter Insurance Mr. and Miss Basketball Oklahoma winners include;
Boys – Stevie Clark – Douglass (2012-13), Chauncey Collins – OKC Storm (2013-14), Shake Milton – Owasso (2014-15), Trae Young – Norman North (2015-16), Trae Young – Norman North (2016-17), Kalib Boone – Tulsa Memorial (2017-18), Jett Sternberger – Kingfisher (2018-19), Bryce Thompson – Booker T. Washington (2019-20), Bijan Cortes – Kingfisher (2020-21), Jai’Von “JV” Seat – Edmond Memorial (2021-22), and Dayton Forsythe – Dale (2022-23).
