Jhaliana "Juice" Guy Adds CHAPY Offensive Player of the Year to a Record-Setting Sophomore Season
Some awards recognize a great stretch of basketball. For Jhaliana “Juice” Guy, her latest honor puts a stamp on an entire season of rewriting the record book.
Guy, a 5-foot-10 Class of 2028 guard at Clinton High School in Iowa, has been named CHAPY Offensive Player of the Year following a sophomore season in which she established herself as one of the most productive young scorers in the country.
She averaged a school-record 24.4 points per game while knocking down 87 three-pointers, another Clinton single-season record. Guy also shot 90 percent from the free-throw line and averaged 3.3 steals per game.
Those numbers tell plenty of the story, but what Guy accomplished in her first season at Clinton carries additional meaning.
Guy returned home to Clinton after spending her freshman season at Bettendorf High School. In her first year wearing a River Queens uniform, she helped push the program forward while putting together a season that earned recognition well beyond her hometown.
Along with being named CHAPY Offensive Player of the Year, Guy earned First Team All-Conference and IBCA All-District honors. She also became Clinton’s first First Team All-State selection in more than 20 years.
Her production earned national recognition as well. MaxPreps selected Guy to its Sophomore All-America Team following the 2025-26 season, placing her among some of the country’s best players in the Class of 2028.
For those who have followed Guy’s development, the scoring is only part of what has made her one of the more heavily recruited guards in her class.
She has built her game around the ability to create offense with the ball in her hands, particularly from beyond the arc. She can get into her shot off the dribble, punish defenders who give her space and stretch a defense well beyond the three-point line. Her ability to generate points in bunches has already made her a difficult assignment at the high school level.
Guy has also spent considerable time competing outside of the high school season. She plays grassroots basketball with Mac Irvin Lady Fire and has been part of the USA Basketball pipeline in consecutive years.
In 2025, she reached the finalist stage for the USA Women’s U16 National Team. She returned to Colorado Springs in 2026 and was again among the final group, this time being named one of 22 finalists for the USA Basketball Women’s U17 National Team. She also participated in the Women’s Junior National Team minicamp in Phoenix.
That experience has placed Guy in gyms alongside many of the country’s best young players, something that has continued to test her game beyond what she sees during the high school season.
Her recruitment now reflects that trajectory.
Guy originally committed to Stanford in March 2025, unusually early in her high school career, before reopening her recruitment at the end of May 2026. She immediately became one of the most sought-after available prospects in the 2028 class.
Iowa quickly re-entered the picture, and Guy returned to Iowa City for an unofficial visit in June. Her recruitment also includes interest and offers from a long list of Power Four programs across the country.
There is still plenty of time before Guy has to determine where basketball will take her after high school. For now, the focus returns to the work that created those opportunities in the first place.
Guy once described her game in three words: “poised, present and prepared.”
Her sophomore season at Clinton provided plenty of evidence for all three.
The CHAPY Offensive Player of the Year award is another addition to an already growing résumé, but for a player who still has two full high school seasons remaining, it may ultimately be remembered less as a culmination and more as an early marker of how far her game can go.
