2024-25 Women's Basketball Roster
Petty, Ajae

Jersey Number 1
Ajae Petty
- Height:
- 6-3
- Year:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Baltimore, Md.
- Last School:
- LSU / Kentucky
- High School:
- Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
Bio
Career Honors at Ohio State
- 2024-25 Wooden Award Preseason Watch List
- 2025 CSC Academic All-District
- OSU Scholar Athlete (2025)
- Big Ten Player of the Week (Dec. 2, 2024)
- NCAA Weekly Starting Five (Dec. 2, 2024)
- 2024 Daytona Beach Classic MVP
- Career totals: 975 points (310 at Ohio State), 761 rebounds (238 at Ohio State)
- Started in all 33 games
- Averaged 9.4 points, 7.2 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 0.9 steals per game, while shooting .588 from the floor
- Led the team in rebounding (7.2 rpg) and field goal percentage (.588), third in assists (54), third in blocks (14)
- Shot 11-of-11 from the floor against Michigan State (2/26), becoming the first Buckeye since 2016 to be perfect from the floor with at least 10 field goal attempts
- Her seven double-doubles were the most by a Buckeye since the 2020-21 season and bring her career total to 27 double-doubles
- Her season-high 15 rebounds against Michigan State was a team-high for the season and was the first time in five seasons that a Buckeye had 15 rebounds in a game
- Double-doubles this season: vs. Old Dominion (season-high 24p/11r), Youngstown State (19p/12r), Rutgers (16p/10r), Oregon (13p/14r), Purdue (12p/14r), Michigan State (23p/season-high 15r), Maryland (12p/10r)
- Had a career-high six assists against Michigan State (2/26)
- Scored her 700th career point at Ohio (11/20), 800th career point against Stanford (12/20) and 900th career point against Purdue (2/23)
- Grabbed her 600th career rebound against Youngstown State (12/14) and 700th career rebound against Purdue (2/23)
- Scored 10 or more points in 14 games and 20 or more points twice this season, had nine games with 10 or more rebounds
- Played ball for LSU as a freshman and sophomore before transferring to Kentucky for her junior and senior seasons
- Made all 32 starts as a senior, averaging 14.2 points and 10.6 rebounds per game in 31.1 minutes per game
- Had 25 10+ point games, 14 15+ point games, seven 20+ point games, two 25+ point games and one 30+ point game in 2023-24
- Reached 500 career rebounds in the first round of the SEC Tournament in 2024
- One of only two players to record a 20-20 game, accomplished as a senior
- Played in 29 games as a junior, averaging 5.7 points and 4.7 rebounds per game
- Played in 12 games as a sophomore
- Played in 19 games as a freshman, finishing the year with 17 points and 18 rebounds
- Named to the 2023-24 CSC Academic All-District Team
- Named to the SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll in 2021-22 and 2023-24
- Named to the SEC First Year Academic Honor Roll in 2020-21 and 2022-23
- Played ball at New Town High School as a freshman and sophomore, transferring to the Institute of Notre Dame as a junior and Baltimore Polytechnic Institute as a senior
- Helped lead her team to their third straight Baltimore City title in 2020
- Was a top stock riser in Summer 2019 on the AAU circuit playing for Power Move
- Was No. 1 post player and No. 16 overall in Next Sports Phenom Class of 2020 Top 100 ranking
- Averaged 15 points and 11 rebounds per game as a junior
- Averaged 14.8 points and 11.1 rebounds per game as a sophomore
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