Rapid City Stevens’ Taaliyah Porter is the 2025 South Dakota Miss Basketball. Porter received the honor at Sunday’s Hansen & Anderson Basketball Banquet in Sioux Falls. Porter is the second Rapid City Stevens girls basketball player to receive Miss Basketball, joining South Dakota legend Becky Hammon (1994). 

A 5-foot-8 senior guard, Porter averaged 22.1 points, 7.2 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game for the Raiders this season. Porter scored 1,667 career points, the most in Rapid City Stevens basketball history and sixth all-time on the Class AA girls basketball scoring list. She added 632 rebounds, 205 assists and 201 steals during her career. 

Porter was a three-time all-state selection, including a first-team honoree in 2024 and ‘25. She guided Stevens to a fourth-place finish at the Class AA girls basketball tournament this season. Porter is undecided about her college basketball destination. 

The other Miss Basketball finalists were Althea Gust, Centerville; Emma Marshall, Centerville; Grace Peterson, Sioux Falls Washington; Jenna VandeWeerd, Canton; Jodene Big Crow-Hunter, Mahpiya Luta; Krista Langager, Sisseton; Lennix DuPris, Pierre; Madala Hanson, Dell Rapids St. Mary; Mya Kochuten, Spearfish; Reagan Rus, Mount Vernon/Plankinton.