{"id":256188,"date":"2026-04-18T22:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256188\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:36:12","slug":"topeka-native-kiki-smith-signs-with-texas-tech-womens-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256188\/","title":{"rendered":"Topeka native Kiki Smith signs with Texas Tech women\u2019s basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Tex. (WIBW) &#8211; A Topeka native will spend her senior season of college basketball in the Big 12 conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kiki Smith, who was a 4-time 6A All-State selection at Topeka High, announced her commitment to Texas Tech on social media on Friday. The Lady Raiders announced Smith\u2019s signing on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Smith began her college career at Hutchinson CC, where she won a JUCO National Championship. She then transferred to Arkansas before spending the 2025-26 season at Purdue. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Tex. (WIBW) &#8211; A Topeka native will spend her senior season of college basketball in the Big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[96509,96505,168,170,169,96506,34112,96507,96508,55007],"class_list":{"0":"post-256188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-13-sports","9":"tag-kiki-smith","10":"tag-lubbock","11":"tag-lubbock-headlines","12":"tag-lubbock-news","13":"tag-texas-tech-wbb","14":"tag-texas-tech-womens-basketball","15":"tag-topeka-high","16":"tag-topeka-high-girls-basketball","17":"tag-wibw-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}