South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets freshman Ja’Niya Broome was selected to the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) All-American First Team for her performance on the court for the 2025 – 2026 season. She is only the 16th female player to receive the All-American designation in the college’s 21-year history of women’s basketball.
Broome was also selected to the 2026 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Two-Year Coaches’ All-American team. She was the first SGTC player under third-year head coach Jason Carpenter to be named to the WBCA All-American team and only the third in three years to be included on the NJCAA Division 1 All-American first, second, or honorable mention list.
The 5’ 9” former Harris County High School player helped lead the Lady Jets to the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) regular season championship with a 14 – 1 record. She was also selected as the GCAA Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year. She was listed as a GCAA First Team All-Region selection and was named to the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCCAA) Region XVII All-Tournament team. The Lady Jets finished second in the NJCAA Region XVII end of the season tournament and were 21 – 11 overall on the season.
Broome set the school record and led the nation for total field goals made in a single season with 269. She also broke the Lady Jets single season points record and led the nation with a total of 722 points for the 2025 – 2026 season. She tied the Lady Jets single season record for three pointers made with 94 this season, which also led the NJCAA nationally. She averaged 22.6 points per game, which was a single season Lady Jets record, and was also second in the nation in the two-year college league.
She was one of only two freshmen to be named to the NJCAA Division I Women’s Basketball All-America first team and one of only four freshman players to be listed among the first and second place All-Americans.
“I am happy for and proud of Ja’Niya Broome for being recognized by the NJCAA for her play this season,” said SGTC Athletic Director and Lady Jets head coach Jason Carpenter. “Being an All-American is a tremendous honor for her as well as for her teammates who all played a part in this. This is a hard earned and very much deserved honor for a remarkable player and person. She is truly only getting started. I am excited to watch her continue to grow!”
Sophomore point guard Mio Sakano from Yamanashi, Japan, and freshman guard Jamiah Gregory from Marietta, Georgia, earned NJCAA All-American honorable mention honors in 2024 – 2025. And this was only the third time in the history of the Lady Jets basketball program that two players had been recognized in a single season. The Lady Jets finished that season ranked 22nd in the NJCAA Division I women’s basketball league with a 27 – 5 overall record. They won the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) regular season title and the NJCAA Region XVII tournament to advance to the NJCAA National Tournament in Casper, Wyoming.
In addition to Broome, Jamiah Gregory and Mio Sakano, Alexia Dizeko and Fanta Gassama earned the NJCAA and WBCA honors in 2021 – 2023, Moe Shida who played here in 2019 – 2021 earned both NJCAA and WBCA honors and then Yasriyyah Wazeerud-Din (2018 – 2020), Shamari Tyson (2019-2020) and Alyssa Nieves (2017 – 2019) were recognized by the NJCAA as All-Americans. Esther Adenike (2016 – 2018) was both an NJCAA and WBCA All-American and then Desire Corbin (2016 – 2017), Angela Tompkins (2015 – 2016) Taquandra Mike (2013 – 2015), Shameekia Murray (2013 – 2014), Shontae Mc Call (2010 – 2012), Opelia McMath (2009 – 2011), and Alice Holmes (2006 – 2008) were the other players named by the NJCAA to the All-American teams.
The SGTC Lady Jets have been to the NJCAA National Tournament 11 times in their 21-year history. Current Athletic Director and Lady Jets head coach Jason Carpenter took the Lady Jets once in 2024 – 2025. He has a 66 – 30 record as a head coach at SGTC. Former head coach James Frey took the team to the NJCAA National Tournament nine times and Brandon Harrell who helped start the program in 2004 took the team once.