“Everybody needs to have the pleasure of coaching a Flau’Jae Johnson. She makes our life so joyful,” Kim Mulkey said back in September. It’s not every day that you meet a player who is a modern real-life incarnation of Hannah Montana! She is a well-respected college basketball player for half of the day, then an aspiring music artist for the other half. Despite that, Johnson, now in her senior year, remains the most energetic on the court; in fact, she’s the most joyous player Mulkey claims to have seen in 40 years of coaching.

The LSU women’s basketball team will enter the 2025-26 season ranked No. 5 in this year’s preseason AP Poll. The expectations are sky-high, but Mulkey is confident that Johnson can handle it. “I just know how hard she works. You can’t imagine the hours she spends

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