The Ultimate Warrior?

Wasilla senior girls basketball standout Jenna Johnson just earned her second player of the year award in about a week.

Just a few days after she was named the Gatorade Alaska Girls Basketball Player of the Year, Johnson has been tabbed the 4A girls player of the year by the Alaska media.

Johnson will obviously go down as one of the top players to ever wear a Wasilla uniform, certainly during the tremendous career of longtime Wasilla head coach Jeannie Hebert-Truax.

But is Johnson the best?

She averaged 21 points, seven rebounds and seven steals during her senior year. She’s a three-time all-state selection, a four-time all-state tournament selection and the two-time Northern Lights Conference player of the year.

Plus, she helped lead Wasilla to a state title and two conference championships.

But there’s some stiff competition.

Let me throw out a couple of names of players who have hit the court for Hebert-Truax.

There’s Chandice Cronk.

The 2004 Wasilla grad also won the Gatorade Alaska Player of the Year award. She was named first-team all-state three times and a conference MVP.

Cronk went on to enjoy quite the career at Division I Santa Clara. She was named first-team All-West Coast Conference twice, and broke team and conference records for three-pointers in a season.

Then there’s Brittney Kroon.

The 2002 Wasilla grad helped lead the Warriors to the 2002 title game and was named all-state tournament twice. After high school, she became one of the top post players at the Division II level. At Seattle Pacific University, she broke about every school and Great Northwest Athletic Conference record for blocks. And she also helped lead SPU to the Division II national championship game as a senior.

“It’s a little hard to compare,” Hebert-Truax said recently. “Brittney was dominate inside and Chandice was dominating shooting the ball. One thing Jenna has is she can shoot the ball and play inside.”

So maybe Johnson, who will play ball at Division I Utah State next fall, is the most versatile Warrior during Hebert-Truax’s time with the program.

Dare I say ultimate Warrior?

— Jeremiah Bartz