Hooks grew up in Dayton, Ohio, where she attended and played basketball at Thurgood Marshall High School.
[3] She scored 406 points which was the second most for a freshman in Ohio history and her 100 steals were a program record at the time.
[7] During a senior season shortened by the COVID-19 pandemic, she averaged 25.1 points per game, good for third in the country, and was an honorable-mention All-American.
[2] In the second game of the season she led Ohio with 32 points in an upset of national power Notre Dame.
[12] However, she removed her name and returned to the Bobcats for a fifth season as allowed by a temporary rule change as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
[15][16] On January 30, in a win at Central Michigan, she scored 30 points and surpassed Caroline Mast as the leading scorer in Ohio basketball history.
[17] Two games later, against Bowling Green, she passed Toledo's Kim Knuth as the leading scorer in MAC basketball history.