Menominee Indian guard Ayanna Smith transfers to College of Lake County
Ayanna Smith’s move from Danville to College of Lake County keeps a Keshena guard in NJCAA basketball and extends a Menominee Indian path beyond high school.
Ayanna Smith is moving from Danville Area Community College to College of Lake County, carrying a Menominee Indian High School basketball résumé and a backcourt skill set into another NJCAA program in Illinois. The Keshena native gives local players a current example of a college route that starts in Menominee County and continues beyond high school.
Smith, a 5-foot-7 guard from Keshena, Wisconsin, played her high school basketball at Menominee Indian High School and earned second-team all-conference honors. Danville listed her as a 5-6 freshman guard born March 8, 2006, the daughter of Greg Smith, who graduated from Menominee High School in 2024. Danville also listed her as an exercise science major.
Her season at Danville showed she could score from the perimeter. Smith opened the 2024-25 season on Nov. 2, 2024, with 12 points and four 3-pointers in a win for the Lady Jaguars. Two weeks later, she added 10 points in Danville’s 59-54 victory over Lincoln Trail at the Lincoln Land Classic on Nov. 15, 2024.
College of Lake County’s women’s basketball program gives Smith another place to compete in the NJCAA, with the Lancers playing in Region 4 and the Illinois Skyway Collegiate Conference out of Grayslake, Illinois. The school’s official 2025-26 women’s basketball roster page does not yet list Smith by name, but the program’s staff and roster structure confirm the college is building around an established junior-college basketball setup.
For Menominee Indian students and younger players in Keshena, Smith’s path matters because it shows how a guard from a small-school program can keep advancing. Her recruiting profile had already viewed her as a point guard and shooting guard, and her DACC statistics backed up that reputation with scoring bursts from behind the arc. Now her next stop places another Menominee County athlete in front of a new conference schedule, with Grayslake the latest stage in a career that has already stretched from Menominee Indian High School to junior college basketball.
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