Rutgers-Camden Athletics

A transfer who has played at the University of Hartford and at Crowder College, Lanae Johnson-Kleinpeter joined the Rutgers-Camden women’s basketball program for her final year of eligibility during the 2024-25 season. She also added academic honors at Rutgers-Camden.
 
Academics: Member of the Rutgers-Camden Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the 2024 Fall and 2025 Spring semesters…Dean’s List student.
 
Basketball 2024-25: Played in all 25 games, starting 16…Averaged 2.9 points and 3.2 rebounds…Third on the team with 39 assists…Third on the team with 24 steals…Added four blocked shots…Shot 23-for-93 (.247) from the floor, including 13-for-58 (.224) from three-point range…Shot 13-for-28 (.464) from the foul line…Notched 80 rebounds and scored 72 points…Made her Rutgers-Camden debut against Penn State-Lehigh Valley (Nov. 9), collecting four points, two rebounds and one steal…Started her first Raptor game against Valley Forge (Nov. 12), notching eight points, three rebounds and one steal…Established her season high of five assists against Cairn (Nov. 15) and later tied that high with five assists against Kean (Feb. 8)…Scored her high of 12 points against Stockton (Jan. 8)…Had her high of seven rebounds against Rutgers-Newark (Jan. 22) and later had a six-rebound game against Stockton (Feb. 13)…Blocked one shot in four consecutive games from Jan. 29-Feb. 8.
 
Pre-Rutgers: Played her first two seasons at Crowder College (Neosho, Missouri) in 2020-21 and 2021-22…Led the team in assists both seasons, with 69 as a freshman and 56 as a sophomore…Averaged 3.9 pints and 1.7 rebounds during her freshman year and 5.2 points and 1.8 rebounds as a sophomore…During the 2022-23 season at the University of Hartford, played in 27 games, starting seven…Averaged 2.2 points and 2.2 rebounds, while adding 28 assists and 18 steals…Had highs of eight points and eight rebounds against Chicago State (Feb. 26) and five assists against Villa Maria (Feb. 12)…Dean’s List at Crowder from 2020-2022…Academic All-American for two years.
 
High School: Four-year basketball letterwinner at Timber Creek High School in Fort Worth…Four-year Academic All-American…Graduated in 2020.
 
Club Teams: ProSkills, Texas Lonestar
 
Personal:  Born November 19, 2001…Nicknamed “Nae”…Hobby is art, both drawing and painting… Member of the Rutgers-Camden Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC)…Biology major with a Physiology minor at Rutgers-Camden…Plans to attend medical school…Lanae is the daughter of Lovie and Carolyn Johnson-Kleinpeter of Fort Worth, Texas.