Jordan Horston

Personal: She is the daughter of Leigh and Malika Horston and has one sister named Jazmin. Her father played basketball at Capital University. Her great uncle, Joe Gilliam, played football at Tennessee State before enjoying a professional career with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Her cousin, Sylvia Crawley, played basketball at North Carolina in addition to the United States National Team. She earned a degree in communication studies from Tennessee in May 2023. She can play the drums and cymbals and was born in Dallas, Texas.

Other Professional Experience: Jordan Horston is a two-year WNBA veteran after being selected with the No. 9 overall pick by Seattle in the 2023 WNBA Draft. She has appeared in 75 career games with 31 starts and owns a 6.9 career scoring average while grabbing 4.7 rebounds per contest. As a rookie, she saw action in 36 games with 17 starts. She was a member of the 2023 Associated Press All-Rookie Team and also collected WNBA All-Rookie Team plaudits. During her inaugural campaign with the Storm, she averaged 6.9 points and 5.1 rebounds per game. She recorded nine double-digit scoring efforts, including a career-high 23 points on 8-of-16 shooting from the field against Atlanta on July 12, 2023. As a rookie, she also fashioned three double-double performances. One notable game was when she registered 13 points with a career-high 14 rebounds against Phoenix on June 13, 2023. During the 2024 season, she earned a starting assignment in 14 of 39 games and averaged 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per contest. She reached double figures in scoring 11 times, including a 20-point performance against Chicago on July 5, 2024, where she made 8-of-11 shots from the field, including a 2-for-4 effort from three-point range. She also grabbed 11 rebounds in a game twice. Horston has also played overseas in New Zealand for the Tokomanawa Queens.

International Experience: Jordan Horston averaged 10.1 points and 7.0 rebounds per game while competing for the Gold medal-winning Team USA during the 2018 FIBA U-17 World Cup. She also contributed 5.6 points and 4.2 rebounds per outing at the 2017 FIBA U-16 Women’s Americas Championship while leading the United States to the Gold medal.

At Tennessee: Horston was a four-year letter winner at Tennessee, where she started 91 of 114 games from 2019-2023 and piloted the Lady Vols to three NCAA Tournament appearances. She earned a pair of Associated Press Honorable Mention All-America certificates and was a two-time All-Southeastern Conference First Team selection by the league’s coaches. She also received Second-Team All-SEC plaudits from USA Today in 2022 and was a member of the 2020 SEC All-Freshman Team after contributing 10.1 points and 5.5 rebounds per game during the 2019-20 campaign.

Horston compiled 1,445 points during her career to rank 29th on the Lady Vols’ all-time scoring list. She averaged 12.7 points and 6.4 rebounds per game during her career and ranks seventh in program history with 455 career assists and a 3.99 assist-per-game average. She stands as one of two players in Tennessee history to record 1,000 points, 700 rebounds, and 400 assists during a career, joining Alexis Hornbuckle. She tied for sixth on Tennessee’s single-season list by averaging 9.4 rebounds during the 2022-23 campaign and dished out 100 or more assists during each of her four seasons. She is one of two players in program history to lead the Lady Vols in assists per game average during all four years of their career.

Horston paced the Lady Vols in scoring as a junior with a 16.2 average and also led the team in rebounding as a junior and senior. She earned a starting assignment in 33 of 35 games as a senior and scored 15.6 points per game while grabbing 7.1 rebounds per contest. She shot a career-best 43.8 percent from the field and also set career highs with 38 blocks and 55 steals. She earned SEC All-Tournament Team honors for the first time in her career after averaging 19.0 points and 8.7 rebounds per game. She started 23 games during her junior campaign before missing the remainder of the season with an injury, but still notched 19 double-digit scoring outputs, including seven games with 20 or more points. She was the Lady Vols’ leading scorer with a 16.2 average while collecting a team-high 9.4 rebounds per outing, which ranked third in the SEC. She also tied for third in the SEC with 12 double-doubles.

Horston appeared in 25 games as a sophomore with 13 starts. She netted 8.6 points per game while adding 4.2 assists per contest and registered 14 double-digit scoring performances, including a season-high 14 points against Alabama.