An intersection in Savannah, Ga., will soon bear the name of Louisiana State University basketball champion Flau’jae Johnson.
She and her teammates on the Tigers – lead by coach Kim Mulkey – recently won the NCAA Championship against the University of Iowa Hawkeyes.
Johnson was born in Savannah on Nov. 3, 2003 and attended Sprayberry High School before enrolling at LSU. While at Sprayberry, she has a top-10 ranking as a women’s high school All-American basketball player, among other honors.
Her father is a well-known rapper in Savannah who went by Camoflauge.
He was killed in 2003, per WTOC.
According to a resolution calling for the intersection of State Route 204 at West Montgomery 18 Cross Road in Chatham County dedicated to her, she is also “one of the nation’s youngest female hip-hop and athletic ambassadors.”
In addition to her basketball career, Johnson appeared on the third season of the Lifetime Network reality show “The Rap Game” and season 13 of NBC's “America’s Got Talent.”
“It is abundantly fitting and proper that this remarkable and distinguished Georgian be appropriately recognized by dedicating an intersection in her honor,” said the resolution, sponsored by State Rep. Carl Gilliard.
“I’ve watched her give back into her community from every element of going to talk to kids in schools when she was in school,” he said, according to WTOC, which reported that there will be a celebration for the official naming of the intersection this summer. “I’ve watched her run the Keep Savannah Beautiful campaign. I’ve watched her giving to the Frank Callen Boys Club.”
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