OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – The Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference announced the results of the 2023-24 Women's Basketball All-Conference Team for Division II and the individual award winner recently. These awards and teams were voted on by the league's head coaches.
Four members of the conference champion Johnson County Community College women's program earned all-conference recognition. Sophomore guards Saige Grampsas and Jazzy Klinge were selected as first-team performers. Freshman guard Taliyah Scott was a second-team selection, and freshman forward Amani Henry was named to the third-team and was selected the Defensive Player of the Year, the third in team history.
These four players helped lead JCCC to a perfect regular season mark of 29-0, a No. 1 national ranking and win a conference title. The team went on to win the Region/District Championship and finish as the NJCAA D-II National Runner-up with a record of 34-1, tying the school record for wins in a season.
In addition, head coach Ben Conrad was selected as the Coach of the Year. It is the ninth time in his 16 year-career at JCCC to be named Coach of the Year.
Grampsas, who last week was named WBCA All-America honorable mention, led the team in scoring averaging 13.3 points per and in games scoring in double figures with 25, highlighted by a career 43-point effort in a win over Neosho County on sophomore night. Grampsas set a single game record draining 13 3-point baskets. She would go on to finish the season making 120 total treys which led the conference and NJCAA and set a new standard at Johnson County. She also made 43.2 percent of her attempts which ties for fifth on JCCC's season chart. For her career, Grampsas made 156 total 3-pointers and shot 40.6 percent, ranking her fifth all-time in both categories.
Klinge finished second in scoring and was team's top rebounder averaging 11.6 points and 9.7 rebounds per game. Her 9.7 rebound average and 341 total rebounds led the conference, were 12th most in the NJCAA and rank her ninth on JCCC's season chart. She also led both the conference and NJCAA in field goal accuracy with a new program mark of 62.1 percent. Klinge scored in double figures in 21 games, topped double digits in rebound 17 times and recorded 10 double-doubles. She was the team's top rebounder in 20 games which ties her for eight on JCCC's season chart.
For her career, Klinge connected on 59.6 percent of her field goal attempts, setting a new career standard at JCCC. She also grabbed 561 total rebounds which ranks her 12th all-time. She averaged 8.5 points and 8.0 rebounds over 70 career games. She was the team's top rebounder 30 times over her two season, seventh most all-time.
Scott averaged 10.6 points, 5.0 assists and 4.7 rebounds in her first season with the program. She led the conference and ranked tied for sixth in the NJCAA with 176 total assists. That total also places her eighth on JCCC's season chart. Her 5.0 assist average was second in the conference and ranks fifth for a career at JCCC. Scott scored in double digits in 21 games, had three games with 10+ rebounds and two double digit assist games, dishing out 10 in both victories over Neosho County. Scott led the team in assists in 24 of 35 games.
Henry finished her freshman campaign averaging 7.7 points and 7.8 rebounds while connecting on 60 percent of her field goal tries, which ranks third for a season and second-best by a freshman in program history. She scored in double figures eight times, grabbed 10+ rebounds 10 times and posted three double-doubles. She was the team's top rebounder in 12 games, second only to Klinge. Henry was also help anchor JCCC's defense which held opponents to just 47.2 points per game, tops in the country.