BEFORE TSU: Lettered four years at Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy...Helped lead CVCA to three consecutive Northeast (Ohio) District championship matches, with her team winning the championship in 2014... Named an MVP her senior year after tallying 35 pts. as a winger... Listed in the Lady Royals soccer records for garnering 17 career assists...
Played club soccer with Cleveland Internationals,  Liberty FC,  and Buxmont (PA) Torch,  the latter of which competes in the Women's Premier Soccer League... Played with the Buxmont Torch as a "rising junior" and is the youngest player to have started a match in the team's history...
Also lettered in track and cross country,  and was a three-time All-State honoree in track.
 
PERSONAL: Full name is Jaya-Naomi Wilson...Born in Providence, Rhode Island... Daughter of Theodore and Crystal Wilson... Has one brother, Theodore "Sachem" Wilson III... Involved in numerous clubs and organizations in high school including: Urban Vision Ministries, National Honor Society, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Ornithology Club,  and American Sign Language Club... Served as junior and senior class president... Was first runner-up in the 2016 Miss Teen Ohio pageant...Earned the highest honor in Girl Scouting: "The Gold Award"...Her brother Sachem was a four-year letterman at (Division 1) Liberty University, and became the first American to play with a club in Slovenia's top-flight league when he signed with ND Gorica in 2016; he currently plays for NK Krka in Slovenia.
 
FAVORITES
Team: Cleveland Cavaliers
Athlete: Sachem Wilson (NK Krka, Slovenia); Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United)
Food: Tacos, Indian food, salad
Movies: Collateral Beauty, Prince of Persia
Sports Movies: Remember the Titans
TV Shows: Downton Abbey
Actor: Hugh Jackman
Musical Artists: Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, One Republic, Arthur Rose
Book: Love Does by Bob Goff
Vacation Spot: Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Most Influential Person in Her Life: Her dad
Favorite Moments as an Athlete: Scoring a match-tying goal in the final in leading her high school team to a district championship as a sophomore