2023-24 JUNIOR SEASON
Season: Played in all 35 games… Averaged 5.6 points and 15.3 minutes per game… Shot 42.9% from the field and 37.5% from three-point range… Season and career high 18 points against St. Francis (12/17)… Season and career high four three-point field goals made against Kansas (11/13).
Bucknell (11/7): Went a perfect 5-5 from the field in Lady Lion debut…Tallied 10 points and four rebounds. Navy (11/10): Recorded four points, four rebounds and three assists. Kansas (11/13): Drained all four three-point attempts en route to 14-point performance. vs Oklahoma State (11/20): Scored 10 points…Added four assists and three rebounds. vs USC (11/22): Notched six points and four rebounds. Radford (11/29): Scored nine points. St. Francis (12/17): Dropped 18 points to go along with three assists, three rebounds and two steals. Michigan State (12/30): Recorded eight points and five boards. Maryland (1/28): Made both of her threes in six-point outing…Added four assists, two rebounds and two assists. at Purdue (2/28): Dropped 15 points on an efficient 6-8 from the field (3-4 from beyond the arc). Big Ten Tournament vs. Wisconsin (3/7): Notched eight points, three rebounds and two assists…Recorded three steals and a block on the defensive end. WBIT vs. Belmont (3/25): Tallied 10 points, three assists and two steals.
BEFORE PENN STATE
2021-23 – AT ILLINOIS
Played in 50 games and started 18 for the Fighting Illini…Averaged 5.2 points per game and made 19 three-pointers in her two seasons…Accumulated 11 double-digit scoring performances over the two seasons…Started 13 games during her sophomore season...Averaged 4.5 points in 16.2 minutes per game…Tallied 6.0 points, and 2.3 rebounds during her freshman year...Finished with 55 assists and a 1.2 assists-to-turnover ratio, both team-highs…Served with the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
HIGH SCHOOL
Rated as a three-star recruit and the 33rd best guard in the 2021 recruiting class by ESPN…Was as the No. 6 recruit in the state of Maryland, including the state's top guard prospect by PrepGirlHoops.com…Averaged 15.3 points, 3.3 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 2.1 steals per game…Earned the USA Today High School Sports Award as the 2021 Maryland Girls Basketball Player of the Year…Nominated as a McDonald's All-American and Gatorade Maryland Player of the Year award…Earned first-team IAAM All-Conference honors in 2019-20…IAAM conference scoring champion in 2019-20…Three-year team captain starting as a sophomore...Played one season with Team Takeover out of Washington, D.C., in the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League (EYBL) in 2020 and four with the Maryland Belles…Named to the McDonogh Honor Roll…Also lettered in track and field.
PERSONAL
Daughter of Steven and Rosa Oden…Has an older sister, Charmaine…Majoring in Kinesiology…Volunteered with Feed My Starving Children, Meals on Wheels, Salvation Army and Roots Farm.
Jayla Oden Season 2024-25
#12PositionG
Height5-8
ClassSenior
HometownBaltimore, Md.
Previous SchoolIllinois
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