Fort Worth made her.
Amayah Garcia is a 5'11" combo guard from Fort Worth, Texas. Two seasons at DeSoto, two at Faith Family, summers on the adidas 3SSB circuit, and one thing that never changed along the way. She competes, and she lights up the people she plays with.
The nickname travels ahead of her. Sunshine. The game underneath it was built in Texas.
Amayah played her first two high school seasons at DeSoto, from 2022 to 2024. As a freshman she started for a team that reached the Texas 6A state final and finished as state runner-up. She scored 14 points in that final and made the Texas All-State Tournament Team in the same run.
By her sophomore year she was a four-star recruit and a TABC All-Region pick in the state’s largest classification. Fort Worth is still the answer when anyone asks where she is from.
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In July 2024 she followed her coach to Faith Family Academy of Oak Cliff.
Andrea Robinson had coached her at DeSoto. When Robinson moved to Faith Family, Amayah went with her, and she has played her junior and senior seasons there.
Faith Family plays a national schedule, and it put her on national floors. Fifteen points and three assists against Montverde Academy at Chipotle Nationals. MVP of the She Got Game Classic in Hawaii. Forty points on Montverde in a win that November.
Her summers belong to Southwest Select on the adidas 3SSB circuit, and in 2025 the game took her to Italy for the Adidas Eurocamp. She was also called up to Mexico’s U17 National Team pool for the 2024 FIBA U17 World Cup.
“Garcia, aka Sunshine, is a ray of light on the court for her teammates!”
What the record says.
Ranked inside the top 40 nationally in the class of 2026 by every major recruiting service.
- McDonald's All-American Nominee, January 2026
- She Got Game Classic MVP
- Adidas All-American
- Adidas Eurocamp, Italy
- Texas All-State Tournament Team
- Texas 6A state runner-up with DeSoto
- Called up to Mexico's U17 National Team pool for the 2024 FIBA U17 World Cup
On November 12, 2025 she signed with the University of Washington.
She committed in October and signed in November, choosing the Huskies over a long list that included Baylor, Indiana, Louisville, North Carolina and TCU. Washington is a Big Ten program, and Seattle is a long way from Fort Worth.
The school is the stage. It is not the identity. The player who shows up in Seattle is the same one Texas has been watching since she was a freshman, and the standard travels with her.
Her freshman year has not been played yet. That is the part she is most interested in.
