Jordan Horston

Jordan Horston: A Brief Biography

Jordan Horston is a basketball player who plays for the Seattle Storm in the WNBA and she was born on the 21st of May in the year 2001 in Dallas, Texas. Horston, who stands 6 feet 2 inches tall, began her professional basketball career at Columbus Africentric High School in Ohio and has been a two-time state champion. In high school, she was granted a scholarship to attend the University of Tennessee and play for the Lady Volunteers team. During her college, Horston was a very versatile player and a team captain, she scored 1,445 points, 731 rebounds and 455 assists and emerged as a promising candidate for the 2023 WNBA Draft. She was a two-time First-team All-SEC selection and was named to the SEC All-Freshman Team in 2020.

Horston was drafted in the WNBA draft in 2023 and was picked ninth by the Seattle Storm. In her first season, she demonstrated the propensity of a guard who can input change to points, rebounds, and also assists.

Jordan Horston Early Life

Jordan Horston was born on 21st May 2001 in Dallas, Texas but she grew up in Columbus Ohio. Growing up, she was surrounded by basketball, thanks to her father who played at Capital University and coached her according to The Columbus Dispatch. She played four varsity seasons at Columbus Africentric High School. In her high school years, she was able to lead her team to 2 straight championships at the state level. Her tenacity is demonstrated by the fact that she continued to play during the senior year state championship game in 2019 even when she was down with a high fever and assisted her team win the game by scoring 15 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists as per the University of Tennessee Athletics page.

Horston was a national achiever in high school due to her excellent performance. She was rated as the second-best overall prospect and the best guard in the country. She was also able to enter the McDonald’s All-American Game and scored 14 points taking home the McDonald’s All-American game MVP in 2019.

Jordan Horston Personal Life

Jordan Horston was born to parents Leigh and Malika Horston in Dallas, Texas. She has one sister, Jazmin, who also played basketball. Horston has been vocal about the rights of the LGBTQ+ especially in sports, as per PinkNews. She embraced Pride events while playing the first season at Seattle Storm; she even wore rainbow jerseys and shared messages of support on her social media pages.

Jordan Horston Family Background

Jordan Horston has always been in a family that had something to do with sports. Her father, Leigh, was a college basketball player at Capital University and a high school basketball coach at Northland High School, which won the state championship in 2009. Her mother, Malika, is employed at JPMorgan Chase as a Risk Operations Analyst in Columbus, Ohio, according to her LinkedIn profile. Horston also has a sister, Jazmin, who used to play basketball and has been her role model. Her cousin, Sylvia Crawley, is a former WNBA player and has also coached at the college and professional level. Her great uncle, Joe Gilliam Jr., was an NFL quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the early 1970s, one of the first African American quarterbacks in the league.

Jordan Horston girlfriend

Jordan Horston is dating Tamari Jeneva Key. Tamari Key was born to parents Tammy Brown and Marcus Key. She has one sister named Teonni Key. Tamari was a student at the University of Tennessee and she completed her bachelor’s degree in communication studies in December 2023. In her college, she was part of the Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team. She also inked a NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) agreement with AT&T Fiber in 2022.

Jordan Horston Social Media

Jordan Horston is seen fairly often on social media where she likes to post her daily life updates, along with her newest fits. She is also an active advocate for LGBTQ rights as she posts about it on social media. Her Instagram account has the handle @ladylynn22_. She also has an X (Formerly Twitter) account with the handle @ladylynn22_.

Jordan Horston Career Stats

Jordan Horston was drafted with the 9th overall pick in the first round of the 2023 WNBA Draft by the Seattle Storm. In the 2023 season, Horston played 36 games, starting in 17 of them and averaged 6.9 points, 1.6 assists and 5.1 rebounds per game. Prior to that she played for the University of Tennessee women’s basketball team and amassed a total of 1,445 points, 731 rebounds, 455 assists, 163 steals and 109 blocks.

Jordan Brent first played in the WNBA on 20th May, 2023 during a game against the Las Vegas Aces. She had 8 points, 5 rebounds, and 3 assists and so she made her statement from the outset. Horston put on a defensive masterclass during the match against the Phoenix Suns on 16th June 2024 and got 5 steals and 2 blocks which demonstrate her capability as a defender in the WNBA. Below mentioned are her stats yearly:

Jordan Horston Achievements

Jordan Horston has demonstrated her capabilities as a basketball player time and again throughout her career, making some memorable moments along the way. Below is a chronological breakdown of her career achievements:

International representation (2017 and 2018)

Jordan Horston was part of the FIBA U17 Women’s World Cup in 2018 and the FIBA Americas U16 Women’s Championship in 2017 as well and was able to win gold medals in each of the competitions. She showed her talent on the international stage by also winning the FIBA U17 Women’s World Cup MVP.

McDonald’s All-American (2019)

Jordan Horston was selected as a McDonald’s All-American in the year 2019 and was considered to be one of the best high school players in the United States of America. She proved that fact by also winning the McDonald’s All-American game MVP award as well.

Jordan Brand Classic (2019)

Jordan Horston was chosen to participate in the Jordan Brand Classic and Jump 25 Ohio All-Star Classic in 2019, showing her potential as a basketball player for the future.

WBCA All-American (2019)

Jordan Horston was selected as a WBCA All-American in 2019.

High School

Jordan Horston came out of high school with a good reputation and was named as a 5-star recruit by both ESPNW HoopGurlz and ProspectsNation.com. She was also named as a Top 2 overall player and No. 1 Guard by both the websites and also Dan Olson College Girls Basketball report.

Naismith First-Team All-American (2019)

Horston was also selected as a Naismith First Team All-American in 2019 and was also the Naismith Trophy finalist for that year.

USA Today All-USA First Team (2019)

Jordan Horston was selected by USA Today in the All-USA First Team in 2019, due to her solid performances as a high school basketball player.

SEC All-Freshman Team (2020)

Horston also made it to the SEC All-Freshman Team in 2020 following her solid freshman season in the University of Tennessee, wherein she averaged 10.1 points, 4.6 assists and 5.5 rebounds per game.

All-SEC Second Team (2021, 2022)

Horston was also selected in the All-SEC second team twice in a row in 2022 and 2023 due to her solid collegiate performances wherein she averaged 8.6 points, 4.2 assists and 3.9 rebounds per game while playing 25 games in the 2020-21 season and scored a career high 16.2 points, 4.0 assists and 9.4 rebounds per game with 1.4 steals per game.

USA Today All-SEC First Team (2021-22)

Horston was also named into the All-SEC First Team by USA Today in the 2021-22 season, marking her as one for the future.

Coaches All-SEC First Team (2021-22)

Horston received a Coaches All-SEC First Team nomination in the 2021-22 season following her junior year, due to a career-high season for her, where she was able to drastically improve her output on the offensive as well as the defensive end by averaging 16.2 points per game, a big step up from her 8.6 points per game from the previous season. She was also able to reach a new career-high average in steals per game which jumped from 1.4 to 1.6 and also improved her rebounding significantly by averaging 9.4 rebounds per game from her previous 3.9 rebounds per game.

WNBA All-Rookie Team (2023)

Upon entering the WNBA in 2023, Jordan Horston quickly showed her potential by making the WNBA All-Rookie team and averaged 6.9 points, 1.6 assists and 5.1 rebounds per game along with 1.2 steals per game while playing 36 games for the Seattle Storm in her Rookie season.

College Career

Horston finished her collegiate career with 1,445 points, 731 rebounds, assists, 163 steals and 109 blocks and started in 91 of her 114 games played. She is only one of two players in the college’s history to record 1000+ points, 700+ rebounds and 400+ assists career. She also had 21 career double-doubles and finished at no. 7 on the career assists list.

Jordan Horston contract

Jordan Horston is on a 3-year, $214,588 deal with the Seattle Storm which includes an average annual salary of $71,529, as per Spotrac. This is her rookie deal which she signed in 20323. In 2024, Horston earned a base salary of $69,663, while carrying a cap hit of $69,663.