Desi-Rae Yvonne Young (born January 8, 2002) is an American professional basketball player who is a free agent.
[3] Young attended Desert Oasis High School (Diamondbacks), where she played on the girls basketball team, in Las Vegas.
[4] Young led the 2017-2018 Diamondbacks to a 21-5 record, the #4 team ranking in Nevada, the championship game of the Nike Interstate Shootout in Oregon, and to the semifinals of the Sunset Region tournament.
[10] Prior to the start of her junior season, Young had already received a scholarship offer from UNLV to play basketball.
[16] As a senior, Young led the Diamondbacks to a 24-3 record, a Desert Region Championship, a runner up finish in Desert Oasis’ first-ever program trip to the 4A state finals (79-51 championship game loss to Centennial High School), #2 Nevada state ranking, and #219 national ranking.
[20][21] Young finished her Desert Oasis High School career with per game averages of 11.4 points, 6.8 rebounds and 2.5 steals.
[1] As a high school prospect, Young was lightly recruited, only receiving two Division I college scholarship offers, from which she committed to UNLV over Pepperdine.
[27][32] In the classroom, Young earned Spring 2021 Academic All-Mountain West Team honors with a 3.12 GPA in her Social Work studies (after changing her major from Journalism and Media).