LSU Basketball Star Angel Reese Is All Smiles Back on the Court in Her Purple Jersey

The NCAA athlete is clearly in her happy place.

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LSU basketball star Angel Reese is back in her happy place. The NCAA star athlete, who was named a 2023 First Team All-America, shared an adorable duo of photos with her 2.5 million Instagram followers. She donned her signature purple-and-white No. 10 jersey and basketball shorts on top of a casual white T-shirt and simply couldn’t wipe the sweet smile off her face.

The SI Swimsuit model, who was photographed by Yu Tsai in Los Angeles for this year’s issue, was clearly elated to return to the court for her senior year at LSU.

“⏳,” the 21-year-old, who is known as Bayou Barbie, captioned the Sept. 25 carousel.

“I love happy Barbie 😍💕😘,” her boyfriend, Florida State basketball guard Cam’ron Fletcher, commented. “Dat smile contagious.”

Angel Reese.

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The Baltimore native lead LSU to its first women’s basketball championship and was named Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four earlier this year.

“My biggest priority right now is just being me. My goal is to play in the WNBA, but I also have aspirations to be a model, just being able to tap into both sides. A lot of people don’t see women’s basketball players being able to do both. I want to push that new narrative of being able to be cute off court but when you get on the court, just being able to ball,” Reese told Harper’s Bazaar. “I’ve always been confident. I am unapologetic. I stay firm on what I believe in, and, being a Black woman, I can do whatever I put my mind to. When I was younger, I knew basketball was going to be my avenue of getting through life and getting to college.”

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