Janelle Bailey
{{Short description|American basketball player}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| name = Janelle Bailey
| image =
| image_size =
| caption =
| number = 44, 30
| position = Center
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 4
| league = Atlantic Coast Conference
| team = North Carolina Tar Heels
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1999|5|4}}
| birth_place =
| nationality = American
| high_school = Providence Day
(Charlotte, North Carolina)
| college = North Carolina (2017–2021)
| highlights = * First-team All-ACC (2020)
- ACC Rookie of the Year (2018)
- ACC All-Freshman Team (2018)
- USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year (2017)
- McDonald's All-American (2017)
| medal_templates = {{MedalSport|Women's basketball}}
{{MedalCountry|the {{bkw|USA}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|FIBA Under-17 World Cup}}
{{MedalBronze|2016 Spain|Team}}
{{MedalSport|Women's 3x3 basketball}}
{{MedalCountry|the {{3x3w|USA}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|FIBA 3x3 Under-18 World Cup}}
{{MedalGold|2017 China||Team}}
}}
Janelle Bailey (born May 4, 1999) is an American women's basketball player. In 2016, she won a bronze medal as the starting center on Team USA at the FIBA Under-17 World Championship for Women.{{cite news |title=Bronze medalist Janelle Bailey steps up her game for big sister |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/bronze-medalist-janelle-bailey-steps-game-big-sister/story?id=40957249 |work=ABC News |language=en}} After playing at the University of North Carolina, Bailey went undrafted in the 2021 WNBA draft. On April 24, 2021, she signed a rookie-scale contract with the New York Liberty. However, a week prior to the start of the regular season, Bailey was waived by the team.
High school
Bailey won three state titles and scored more than 1,000 points while attending Providence Day School in Charlotte. In 2017, she was named a McDonald's All-American{{cite news |title=Janelle Bailey on McDonald's All American honor: 'It's something that I'll cherish' |url=https://usatodayhss.com/2017/janelle-bailey-on-mcdonalds-all-american-honor-its-something-that-ill-cherish |work=USA TODAY High School Sports |date=15 February 2017}} and USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year.
Career statistics
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= College =
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|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 2017–18
| style="text-align:left;" | UNC
|31||31||32.3||48.5||0.0||68.6||9.1||0.9||0.6||1.2||2.2||15.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 2018–19
| style="text-align:left;" | UNC
|32||31||33.1||47.1||26.1||75.2||8.7||1.1||0.7||0.7||1.7||16.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 2019–20
| style="text-align:left;" | UNC
|27||27||32.8||41.2||44.4||80.7||9.3||1.9||0.8||1.2||2.8||14.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 2020–21
| style="text-align:left;" | UNC
|24||24||28.7||48.1||13.3||71.1||8.2||1.1||0.7||0.5||1.7||13.6
|-
| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | Career
|114||113||31.9||46.3||23.5||74.4||8.9||1.2||0.7||0.9||2.1||15.1
|- class="sortbottom"
|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/janelle-bailey-1.html|title=Janelle Bailey College Stats|publisher=Sports-Reference|accessdate=April 11, 2024}}
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Personal
Bailey was born in New York City to Hessard and Kim Bailey. Hessard was born in Jamaica and had experience as an amateur boxer and Kim ran track in high school. At the age of 2, the family moved to Charlotte, North Carolina.
References
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{{USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year}}
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Category:American women's basketball players
Category:Basketball players from Charlotte, North Carolina
Category:North Carolina Tar Heels women's basketball players
Category:21st-century American sportswomen
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