NIL Opportunities

2022-23 - SOPHOMORE

• Academic All-Big Ten
• Played in 27 games with 13 starts
• Averaged 4.5 points/game, 1.7 rebounds/game and 1.0 assists/game
• Scored season-high 14 points against Florida Atlantic (12/21/22)
• Shot 38-percent from the field, 20.5-percent from deep and 68.8-percent from the free throw line

2021-22 - FRESHMAN

• Played in 23 games, with five starts
• Averaged 6.0 points and 2.3 rebounds over 18.8 minutes per contest
• Missed four games between Nov. 21 and Dec. 2  due to injury
• Dished out a team-most 55 assists, an average of 2.4 per game
• Ranked first on the team with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.20 (55-46)
• Tallied five games in double-digits scoring
• Posted a career-high in rebounds (6), to go along with 11 points vs. Purdue (1/20/22)
• Finished as the only Illini in double-figures with a career-high 16 points at No. 25 Iowa (1/23/22)
• Played a career-high 30 minutes in first-career start at Wisconsin (2/6/22) tallying eight points, including a career-high six free throws, and a team-leading five assists.
• Recorded a career-high four steals vs. Northwestern (2/20/22)
• Recorded a season-high seven assists in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament vs. Nebraska (3/3/22)

HIGH SCHOOL

• Two-sport athlete at the McDonogh School in Baltimore, Md.
• Lettered in three years in basketball (2018-21) and once in track & field (2019)
• Averaged 15.3 points, 3.3 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 2.1 steals per game during her prep career
• Rated as a three-star recruit by ESPN
• ESPN ranked as the No. 33 point guard in the class of 2021
• PrepGirlHoops.com rated as the No. 6 recruit in the state of Maryland, including the state's top point guard prospect
• Earned the USA Today High School Sports Award as the 2021 Maryland Girls Basketball Player of the Year 
• Nominated as a 2021 McDonald's All-American
• Nominated for the 2021 Gatorade Maryland Player of the Year award
• Three-year team captain as a sophomore (2018-19), junior (2019-20) and senior (2020-21)
• Earned first-team IAAM All-Conference honors in 2019-20
• IAAM conference scoring champion in 2019-20
• Named to the McDonogh Honor Roll
• Played one season with Team Takeover out of Washington, D.C., in the NIke Elite Youth Basketball League (EYBL) in 2020 

Personal

• Full name is Jayla Shanell Oden
• Daughter of Steven and Rosa Oden
• Born Sept. 23, 2002 in Towson, Md.
• Has one older sister, Charmaine
• Lists her hobbies as shopping, track & field, dancing, painting and drawing
• Plans to major in Kinesiology