Reniya Kelly

Reniya Kelly is an American college basketball player for the North Carolina Tar Heels of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).

Early life and high school career

Kelly grew up in Hoover, Alabama, the daughter of Keri and Ural "U.J." Mitchell. Kelly played multiple sports growing up, including swimming, soccer, and basketball. She attended Hoover High School, where she won four Class 7A state championships in five seasons starting in eighth grade, being named tournament MVP each of her last three seasons. She set her school scoring record with 2,272 career points as she helped the team go 168–10 over her five years. In her senior season, she averaged 14.7 points, 5 assists, 4.9 rebounds, and 2.4 steals per game on 47 percent three-point shooting, being named the Alabama Miss Basketball and the Alabama Gatorade Player of the Year. Hoover retired her jersey in December 2023. Rated the sixth-best point guard and 30th-best player overall in the 2023 class by ESPN, she committed to North Carolina over offers from Alabama and Baylor. She came out of the starting rotation later that month and missed three games due to a head injury before working her way back into the lineup. On January 28, 2024, she scored a season-high 20 points in an 81–66 loss to Virginia. She missed the last stretch of the season due to a lower body injury, finishing her freshman season with 4.6 points per game in 20 games (10 starts).

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