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Jessie Moses (above, left) poses with her future college coach, Tina Langley. (Photo courtesy Jessie Moses)<\/p>\n
Moses had long been a name to watch on the local and national scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The daughter of Sharif Bray, who starred at Cheyney University and was a longtime standout at the Rumph Classic, Moses picked up her first Division I offer as a seventh grader after she joined the Philly Rise program, teaming up with future Westtown School classmate Jordyn Palmer to play on the Nike EYBL circuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A longtime hoops fan \u2014 Bray and Moses and her mom, Diane, are frequent spectators at games and events all over the region \u2014 she said it was during and then after the COVID pandemic that she really started taking the sport seriously, using the time off to work out three times a day at a neighbor\u2019s house, and that drive hasn\u2019t stopped since.<\/p>\n
\u00a0A strong two-way guard, Moses is a skilled offensive player with shooting range, the ability to create off the bounce and quality finishing abilities at the rim.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust working her out, I just saw the way she moved, the way she played, I just saw she had good potential,\u201d Bray said. \u201cHer work ethic, her loving the game of basketball, being a sponge to it, I believe that\u2019s her biggest skill.\u201d<\/p>\n
After her sophomore year at Westtown, she transferred down to IMG Academy, an elite academic and athletic institution on a 600-acre campus in Bradenton, Fla. But she suffered her first major injury last spring, tearing her ACL at the first EYBL stop of 2025, costing her the entire summer and her junior year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Moses was cleared in March and saw her first game action in May, joining Southwest All-Stars (Ga.) on the Adidas circuit for her final year of grassroots basketball. It was playing with Southeast All-Stars that she first caught the eye of Washington coach Tina Langley and staff, who followed her throughout the May and July live periods.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Moses took her official visit to UW after one to Rutgers, then called off future visits to Michigan State and Central Florida to make her decision. She called Langley the day after her return to commit, then had to get through the paperwork.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d never been to Washington before and I feel like it would have been a great thing to just try and try something new,\u201d she said. \u201cI just took my chance with it and I loved it when I took my visit there, so I was happy that I decided to try new things.\u201d<\/p>\n
She\u2019s certainly joining a program on the upswing.<\/p>\n
The Huskies\u2019 coach since 2021 after six years at Rice, Langley has an 83-71 (.539) record at Washington, including appearances in the last two NCAA Tournaments. Last year was her best yet at the Big Ten institution, going 22-11 (10-8 Big Ten) and reaching a high of No. 20 in the AP rankings and making the second round of the NCAA Tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With Sayvia Sellers (18.0 ppg) and Avery Howell (14.2 ppg, 8.3 rpg) leading a strong returning group, the Huskies were picked No. 16 in this year\u2019s AP Preseason Poll. Thanks to the NCAA\u2019s new five-in-five scholarship model, they both have at least one year of eligibility remaining, if they choose to utilize the fifth season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have two good guards in front of me right now,\u201d Moses said. \u201c(Sellers is) a senior and (Howell is) a junior, they don\u2019t know if one\u2019s going to take the fifth year or not. It\u2019s really just coming in, working hard, seeing where I fit in, and she plays freshmen, so that was another big thing for me, an opportunity is there if I work up to it and deserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessie Moses (above, left) poses with her future college coach, Tina Langley. (Photo courtesy Jessie Moses) Moses had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-311641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}