OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Johnson County sophomore guards Jazzy Klinge and Saige Grampsas were recently named to the 2024 World Exposure Report All-America teams. Klinge was named to the first-team, and Grampsas was a second-team selection. They become the ninth and 10th players to be selected All-America by WER, all under the direction of head coach Ben Conrad. Klinge is just the second player to be named to the first-team.
Earlier this season both players were selected as first-team All-Region 6/Plains District and All-Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) D-II performers and were selected to the NJCAA D-II All-Tournament Team. Grampsas was also named as an honorable mention All-American by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
These two 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. They are also a part of the most successful two-year runs in program history with a record of 67-4 (.944), two conference and district titles, two national tournament berths and a runner-up national finish.
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 rebounds 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.
Grampsas, who also 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.