BATON ROUGE — RaShonta LeBlanc, a 5-7 guard from Port Arthur, Texas, signed a National Letter of Intent to play basketball for the LSU Lady Tigers, it was announced by head coach Sue Gunter on Wednesday.
LeBlanc will be a senior for coach Joseph Fonteneaux at Memorial High School this season and averaged 16.0 points, 5.0 assists and 3.0 steals per game as a junior last year, helping her team to a 25-8 record. As three-year starter, she was named first-team all-district three straight years and earned first-team all- state last year as a junior.
“Rashonta is one of those gifted combination guards that can play the one or the two,” LSU associate coach Pokey Chatman said. “She has tremendous ability and is a student of the game. One of the most impressive things about Tae-Tae is her commitment to the defensive end of the floor.”
LeBlanc, who is currently in the top 10 percent of her class, is a consensus top 100 prospect in the nation and was named the No. 1 player in the state of Texas by Gordon Loucks-Texas Hoops Newsletter.
LeBlanc is the younger sister of LSU track and field star, RaNysha, a junior sprinter and hurdler on the defending indoor and outdoor defending National Championship teams.