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2025-26 Women's Basketball Roster

4 Jaila Harding

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  • Height 5-8
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Highschool Wichita Southeast HS
  • Hometown Wichita, Kan.

Biography

Wichita State All-Time Single-Season Threes Record
2025-26 - 82
Academic Accolades
AD Honor Roll - Fall 2025

2025-26 (Graduate): Started all 31 games for the Shockers, averaging 11.3 points per game...Was the Shockers' second leading scorer and best three-point shooter, averaging 2.7 threes per game...Finished the season ranked third in the conference and 36th in the nation in threes per game, shooting 33.3 percent from the beyond the arc...Finished in double figures 18 times, scoring 20 or more points four times...Led the Shockers in scoring 10 times, hitting two or more threes in 21 games...Set a new Wichita State program record for single-season threes with 82...Led all scoring with 17 points, shooting 5-for-9 from three in the season-opening win over Lincoln...Finished in double figures with 10 against Northwestern State...Put up a team-high 19 points, hitting five threes in the overtime loss to Western Kentucky...Finished in double figures against Missouri State...Had 11 points and four rebounds against Southeast Missouri State, hitting three three pointers...Scored a season-high 21 points, shooting 5-for-10 from three at UC Irvine...Recorded 11 points, shooting a perfect 3-for-3 from three, and a tied for a team-high three assists against Idaho...Led the team in scoring with 11 points at Texas Tech...Hit four threes in the win over Loyola Marymount, finishing with 13 points...Hit four threes again on her way to 17 points in the Kids Day win over Oral Roberts...Led the Shockers in scoring with 11 against Middle Tennessee...Hit six threes in the second half at Tulsa, finishing with a career high tying 22 points...Hit four threes on her way to 18 points against Tulane, tying for eighth all-time in Wichita State history for single-season threes with 49...Finished with 11 points, hitting two threes and shooting a perfect 5-for-5 from the free throw line, a career high...Scored a career-high 24 points, shooting 6-for-12 from three and grabbing six rebounds against Tulsa...Hit five threes on her way to a game-high 21 points at Charlotte...Broke Wichita State's single-season threes record, hitting four on her way to 19 points in the win over UTSA to bring her season total to 75...Hit two threes on senior night in the win over North Texas...Finished in double figures, hitting two threes in the season finale at Memphis, bring her final made threes total to 82.

2024-25 (Senior at New Mexico State): Appeared in 33 games and started in 15 this season… Scored 252 field goals, 61 of them coming from behind the arc…Led the Aggies in 3PT% after finishing 35.7 percent from outside the perimeter…Finished the Aggies regular season in third in CUSA in 3PTA…Scored in double figures 11 times, including her highest mark of 18 points against FIU on Jan. 16…Ranked fourth in the conference in three pointers per game…Led the team in assist/turnover ratio (1.45)


2023-24 (Junior at New Mexico State): Named Honorable Mention All-CUSA…Averaged 9.3 points and 2.5 rebounds per game…Led the Aggies in three-point shooting, hitting 61 threes.

2021-23 (Freshman/Sophomore at Butler CC): Appeared in 62 games for the Grizzlies (59 starts), averaging 9.2 points and 4.1 rebounds per contest…Named to the 2022 All-KJCCC Honorable Mention team…Shot 80 percent from the free-throw line, while pouring in 80 threes over two seasons…Scored a career-high 19 points while tying her career-best in three-pointers made (4) in a win over Colby CC.
 
High School: Attended Wichita Southeast HS…Named a Third Team All-State selection in her senior season…Valedictorian of her high school class…Also played volleyball for 11 years.
 
Personal: Daughter of Jacqueline and Eric Harding…Dad played basketball at Labette CC…Has one brother, Jerrick, who played basketball at Weber State and currently plays oversees for MoraBanc Andorra…Outside of basketball, enjoys shopping and traveling…Favorite place she has traveled to is Spain…Wants to be a physician assistant.
 
“My brother has been my biggest inspiration,” Harding said. “I watched him work extremely hard throughout his life to get to where he is at now. It’s been an honor to follow in his footsteps.”
 
What Jaila wants fans to know about her: “I’m so excited to be back in front of my own community. I’m super bubbly and will always bring energy!”

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