{"id":67617,"date":"2024-01-20T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/kent-reporter-female-athlete-of-the-week-lajaya-brown\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T09:30:00","slug":"kent-reporter-female-athlete-of-the-week-lajaya-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/kent-reporter-female-athlete-of-the-week-lajaya-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Reporter Female Athlete of the Week: LaJaya Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent Reporter&rsquo;s female athlete of the week for the week of Jan. 13 is Kentridge High School sophomore LaJaya Brown, girls basketball.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your favorite subject\/class in school?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Human Geography<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name your Mount Rushmore (Top 4) favorite movies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Princess and the Frog, Last Chance U- Basketball, Poetic Justice, Mid 90&rsquo;s<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is the person in your life that has helped you succeed the most?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My Mom. She has supported me through everything throughout my whole career<\/p>\n<p><strong>You&rsquo;re on a long road trip, you stop at a gas station. You get one drink and one snack. What are you choosing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pink bag of Nerd Clusters and a peach Red Bull<\/p>\n<p><strong>Describe your pre-game ritual:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No social media an hour before game time. I listen to my gameday playlist and right before game time I pray.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Song you currently can&rsquo;t stop listening to?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Horsepower by danielle (feat. Ceasar)<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the sidelines:<\/strong> LaJaya has been working hard defensively and usually has to cover the other team&rsquo;s best player- game in and game out. She has really started to show improvement on her jump-shot, which means she has been putting some time and energy. She is also a very positive teammate and someone everyone seems to connect to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown covers the opposing teams best player in every game and has shown improvement on offense. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":67618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-67617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67617"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=67617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}