![]() ![]() “She’s a great teammate and brings out the best in those around her. “Janae scored 30 points in her first ever varsity game as a freshman,” Kelly said. Her coach at Oak Forest raved about her attitude, leadership, and talent. Kent says she's spent plenty of time playing against the boys and it's helped her take her game to another level. Her father was a guard at Ohio during his playing days, while her mother was a guard at West Virginia, and her brother, Jayson, is a forward at Bradley. She was forced into a leadership role as a freshmen.”īorn and raised in a basketball family, Kent always had a basketball in her hands. “She has the ability to score from anywhere on the court, she’s a natural leader. She can play all of the positions at the high school level if we asked her to,” Oak Forest head coach Jeff Kelly said. “She’s a kid that only comes around once in a career for a coach and a program. Kent was lighting up scoreboards as a freshman, and now after her junior season, is one of the best players in her state and continues to improve. The Tigers were her most recent offer in January, then in February, Kent took an unofficial visit to watch LSU play Florida in the PMAC. Kent is rated a four-star caliber player out of Oak Forest high school in south Chicago and held a bevy of impressive offers, including Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, Alabama, Ohio State and many others. LSU women's basketball picked up its first 2023 commitment in 6-foot-1 wing Janae Kent on Friday morning, helping head coach Kim Mulkey and her staff begin to piece together the future coming off of the successful 2021-22 campaign.Īfter her junior season, Kent was named first-team All-State in Illinois. ![]()
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