Glenn Twins Enjoying Experience with “Second Family”
Feb 07, 2022 | Women's Basketball, Sports Extra
By: D. Scott Fritchen
After No. 25 Kansas State defeated feisty Texas Tech 82-75 in front of 5,588 fans at Bramlage Coliseum on Saturday, freshmen twin sisters Brylee and Jaelyn Glenn joined their teammates in signing autographs for children around the arena. They smiled. They looked at home.
In an edge-of-your-bleacher-seat game, K-State saw the Lady Raiders creep to within four points three different times down the stretch, but time and time again the Wildcats fought them off. It was the latest impressive victory for K-State, 17-6 overall and 7-4 in the Big 12 Conference, which remains fourth in the league standings — two games back of No. 11 Iowa State (9-2) and No. 18 Oklahoma (9-2).
It was also the latest impressive performance by Brylee and Jaelyn, a pair of 6-foot-1 Kansas City, Missouri natives, who have not only fit in well with Jeff Mittie's program, but take turns, sometimes one possession after another, in helping junior All-American candidate Ayoka Lee and freshman Serena Sundell to pick apart opponents.
Jaelyn finished with 16 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and a career-high 6 steals in 36 minutes against Texas Tech. Brylee had 14 points, 1 rebound, a career-high 4 assists and 2 steals in 24 minutes. They combined to score 11 of the first 15 points. Brylee opened the fourth quarter with the first seven points for K-State. Down the stretch, Jaelyn stole a pass and made a fastbreak layup.
We are witnessing what might be the best freshman twin-sister duo in women's college basketball.
"They're just really competitive and really good players," Mittie says. "They're talented on both ends of the floor. When I watched them in AAU, they played every game hard. You don't always see that in AAU. What impressed me the most is if the ball was in play, they were playing hard and doing all the things necessary and fighting to the end. We've seen that here.
"They've been a huge asset to our team on both ends of the floor."
Brylee averages 8.5 points, 2.6 rebounds, 1.5 assists, and 1.2 steals in 24.4 minutes. She is third on the team in scoring, third in steals (26), and fourth in blocks (10). Jaelyn averages 7.7 points, 4.1 rebounds, 2.4 assists, and 1.7 steals in 29.3 minutes. Jaelyn is fourth in scoring, second in 3-pointers (34), rebounds (90) and leads the team in steals (37).
"They're tough," Texas Tech head coach Krista Gerlich says. "They're good players. I think the fact that they both can shoot it really well is great. They're aggressive with their drives. They're really good guards along with perimeter with lots of length and can shoot the basketball. They're a nice complement to Lee."
They don't answer each other's questions, and, no, they can't look at each other and think of the same food. Heck, Jaelyn aspires to get into baking and Brylee could care less about honing her culinary skills. But since they were in kindergarten, they've been in lock step on the basketball court.
"It's my twin sister, my other half, so she knows how I play," Jaelyn says. "We've played together all our lives. We know each other's styles and can feed off each other and make plays off each other."
Jaelyn finished her senior season at The Barstow School averaging 15 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals and nearly 2 blocks en route to becoming a 2021 McDonald's All-American Game nominee. Jaelyn was the nation's 54th ranked player by ESPNW Hoopgurlz. Brylee averaged 17 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals and was the 75th ranked player by ProspectsNation.com. She set the school record with more than 1,000 career points and was the first player in school history to score at least 40 points in three different games.
From playing together on Little Ballers for Raymore-Peculiar, and then onto ABA Supreme, to Future, to Missouri Phenom Pheesa, and to Lady Run GMC, the Glenn's lived in the gym for eight years under the tutelage of AAU head coach Rodney Gilyard, who they call one of the most impactful people in their lives. Their team went 25-2 during the summer of 2018 and won the Prague 17-and-under division of the 2018 Nike Tournament of Champions in Chicago.
Now they're interested in helping K-State to the NCAA Tournament.
"I'm so excited," Brylee says. "I look forward to playing the rest of the teams and going to the tournament in March. I can't wait. It's going to be such a great experience. It's especially cool doing all this as freshmen."
Adds Jaelyn: "I'm excited to see how we play against the teams we've lost to, and I'm excited to go to the tournament, and maybe get a couple wins. It's really exciting, especially with the success we've had. Hopefully we can just feed off that and get down to it, and get down to business."
Brylee earned Big 12 Freshman of the Week honors twice on December 6 and December 20 over the course of a nine-game stretch in which she averaged 10.6 points, 2.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists. She's scored a career-high 19 points twice (at Oklahoma State and at Iowa State) and has eight double-digit scoring performances.
Jaelyn had 13 points, 4 rebounds, 8 assists and 5 steals against Abilene Christian, becoming the first K-State freshman in at least 20 years to record at least 10 points, 8 assists and 5 steals in the same game. She also drained 6 3-pointers at West Virginia, becoming the first freshman to achieve the feat since Rachel Ranke in 2018. She scored a career-high 20 points against the Mountaineers and has six double-digit scoring games this season.
"I love having them on the team," Lee says. "Off the court, their personalities bring so much life to our culture and everything about it. On the court, Brylee, I know she's going to lock up on defense. It's so much fun to play defense with Brylee. And I know Jaelyn is going to hit the 3 on offense and do her job on defense, too. The way they play and how hard they play, you know you can trust them to do their job. You know it means a lot to them. It's just so much fun."
Along the way, they've learned much about themselves their freshmen seasons.
"I'm stronger than I give myself credit for," Jaelyn says. "My shot has gotten a lot better from past years. Just knowing I can play with people who've been playing in the Big 12 for four and five seasons really raises my confidence."
Is there fatigue? Sure. The team works out virtually every day and then there's practice. There are two or three days between games. There's travel. And there's schoolwork.
"It's rewarding because of the success we've been experiencing," Brylee says. "I'm a lot better at defense than I thought I was. In high school, I was never a big defensive person, but when I came here, I felt like that was my role, then I started scoring more. I didn't think I'd come here and people would look at me like a go-to person and also put me on the opponent's best scorer, so that's been interesting."
One thing is undeniable: The Glenn sisters have found a home.
"Everyone of us are friends and we laugh with each other," Jaelyn says. "Our relationship just gets better every day. That's really important. It's awesome coming into a family, like a second family.
"And K-State is like a second family."
After No. 25 Kansas State defeated feisty Texas Tech 82-75 in front of 5,588 fans at Bramlage Coliseum on Saturday, freshmen twin sisters Brylee and Jaelyn Glenn joined their teammates in signing autographs for children around the arena. They smiled. They looked at home.
In an edge-of-your-bleacher-seat game, K-State saw the Lady Raiders creep to within four points three different times down the stretch, but time and time again the Wildcats fought them off. It was the latest impressive victory for K-State, 17-6 overall and 7-4 in the Big 12 Conference, which remains fourth in the league standings — two games back of No. 11 Iowa State (9-2) and No. 18 Oklahoma (9-2).
It was also the latest impressive performance by Brylee and Jaelyn, a pair of 6-foot-1 Kansas City, Missouri natives, who have not only fit in well with Jeff Mittie's program, but take turns, sometimes one possession after another, in helping junior All-American candidate Ayoka Lee and freshman Serena Sundell to pick apart opponents.
Jaelyn finished with 16 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and a career-high 6 steals in 36 minutes against Texas Tech. Brylee had 14 points, 1 rebound, a career-high 4 assists and 2 steals in 24 minutes. They combined to score 11 of the first 15 points. Brylee opened the fourth quarter with the first seven points for K-State. Down the stretch, Jaelyn stole a pass and made a fastbreak layup.
We are witnessing what might be the best freshman twin-sister duo in women's college basketball.
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"They're just really competitive and really good players," Mittie says. "They're talented on both ends of the floor. When I watched them in AAU, they played every game hard. You don't always see that in AAU. What impressed me the most is if the ball was in play, they were playing hard and doing all the things necessary and fighting to the end. We've seen that here.
"They've been a huge asset to our team on both ends of the floor."
Brylee averages 8.5 points, 2.6 rebounds, 1.5 assists, and 1.2 steals in 24.4 minutes. She is third on the team in scoring, third in steals (26), and fourth in blocks (10). Jaelyn averages 7.7 points, 4.1 rebounds, 2.4 assists, and 1.7 steals in 29.3 minutes. Jaelyn is fourth in scoring, second in 3-pointers (34), rebounds (90) and leads the team in steals (37).
"They're tough," Texas Tech head coach Krista Gerlich says. "They're good players. I think the fact that they both can shoot it really well is great. They're aggressive with their drives. They're really good guards along with perimeter with lots of length and can shoot the basketball. They're a nice complement to Lee."
They don't answer each other's questions, and, no, they can't look at each other and think of the same food. Heck, Jaelyn aspires to get into baking and Brylee could care less about honing her culinary skills. But since they were in kindergarten, they've been in lock step on the basketball court.
"It's my twin sister, my other half, so she knows how I play," Jaelyn says. "We've played together all our lives. We know each other's styles and can feed off each other and make plays off each other."
Jaelyn finished her senior season at The Barstow School averaging 15 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals and nearly 2 blocks en route to becoming a 2021 McDonald's All-American Game nominee. Jaelyn was the nation's 54th ranked player by ESPNW Hoopgurlz. Brylee averaged 17 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals and was the 75th ranked player by ProspectsNation.com. She set the school record with more than 1,000 career points and was the first player in school history to score at least 40 points in three different games.
From playing together on Little Ballers for Raymore-Peculiar, and then onto ABA Supreme, to Future, to Missouri Phenom Pheesa, and to Lady Run GMC, the Glenn's lived in the gym for eight years under the tutelage of AAU head coach Rodney Gilyard, who they call one of the most impactful people in their lives. Their team went 25-2 during the summer of 2018 and won the Prague 17-and-under division of the 2018 Nike Tournament of Champions in Chicago.
Now they're interested in helping K-State to the NCAA Tournament.
"I'm so excited," Brylee says. "I look forward to playing the rest of the teams and going to the tournament in March. I can't wait. It's going to be such a great experience. It's especially cool doing all this as freshmen."
Adds Jaelyn: "I'm excited to see how we play against the teams we've lost to, and I'm excited to go to the tournament, and maybe get a couple wins. It's really exciting, especially with the success we've had. Hopefully we can just feed off that and get down to it, and get down to business."
Brylee earned Big 12 Freshman of the Week honors twice on December 6 and December 20 over the course of a nine-game stretch in which she averaged 10.6 points, 2.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists. She's scored a career-high 19 points twice (at Oklahoma State and at Iowa State) and has eight double-digit scoring performances.
Jaelyn had 13 points, 4 rebounds, 8 assists and 5 steals against Abilene Christian, becoming the first K-State freshman in at least 20 years to record at least 10 points, 8 assists and 5 steals in the same game. She also drained 6 3-pointers at West Virginia, becoming the first freshman to achieve the feat since Rachel Ranke in 2018. She scored a career-high 20 points against the Mountaineers and has six double-digit scoring games this season.
"I love having them on the team," Lee says. "Off the court, their personalities bring so much life to our culture and everything about it. On the court, Brylee, I know she's going to lock up on defense. It's so much fun to play defense with Brylee. And I know Jaelyn is going to hit the 3 on offense and do her job on defense, too. The way they play and how hard they play, you know you can trust them to do their job. You know it means a lot to them. It's just so much fun."
Along the way, they've learned much about themselves their freshmen seasons.
"I'm stronger than I give myself credit for," Jaelyn says. "My shot has gotten a lot better from past years. Just knowing I can play with people who've been playing in the Big 12 for four and five seasons really raises my confidence."
Is there fatigue? Sure. The team works out virtually every day and then there's practice. There are two or three days between games. There's travel. And there's schoolwork.
"It's rewarding because of the success we've been experiencing," Brylee says. "I'm a lot better at defense than I thought I was. In high school, I was never a big defensive person, but when I came here, I felt like that was my role, then I started scoring more. I didn't think I'd come here and people would look at me like a go-to person and also put me on the opponent's best scorer, so that's been interesting."
One thing is undeniable: The Glenn sisters have found a home.
"Everyone of us are friends and we laugh with each other," Jaelyn says. "Our relationship just gets better every day. That's really important. It's awesome coming into a family, like a second family.
"And K-State is like a second family."
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