Former Waverly, Michigan State basketball player among eight individuals and two teams in Greater Lansing Sports Hall of Fame's 2025 class.
Lauren Aitch-Guerrant tried a lot of sports during her childhood.
Volleyball, softball, gymnastics and soccer, among others.
But nothing resonated for Aitch-Guerrant like basketball.
"One of the things I loved about the game is that it came very natural and it wasn't something that was really difficult," Aitch-Guerrant said.
Trips to IM West on Michigan State's campus with her father, Matthew Aitch, who played basketball at MSU and professionally for the Indiana Pacers, helped foster that passion. And those hoops sessions served as the early stages in a special journey that has resulted in Aitch-Guerrant earning a spot in the Greater Lansing Sports Hall of Fame.
Aitch-Guerrant is part of a class that will be inducted on Aug. 7 during a ceremony at the Lansing Center.
"I'm very humbled and just very grateful," Aitch-Guerrant said. "It definitely made me reminisce on my team as a student-athlete, both in high school and in college. I got to reflect on some of those great opportunities that I had and reflect on a lot of the wins that we had with my teams and my teammates and coaches and all that."
Aitch-Guerrant found success at all levels in her basketball career, first at Waverly where she helped the Warriors finish 26-1 and win a Class A state championship in 2004 while finishing fifth in the state's Miss Basketball voting. She followed her father's footsteps by playing collegiately at MSU and made her mark off the bench in the program for squads that made runs in the NCAA and WNIT tournaments.
And Aitch-Guerrant ended her basketball career with a successful year professionally in Copenhagen, Denmark, where she won a championship in 2011.
As she looks back on it now, Aitch-Guerrant reached a lot of the goals she wrote out with a gel pen on a red sheet of paper as a high school freshman.
"I wrote out five or six goals and one of those was to have a state championship, another one was to get great grades all throughout high school," Aitch-Guerrant said. "And then another one was to come to college and play basketball and win some championships and then also to play professionally and I was able to achieve all those things.
"Looking back on that, I definitely feel like God really made a path and he allowed me to do the things that I needed to do."
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49th Greater Lansing Sports Hall of Fame
When: Aug. 7; 4:30 — Welcome; 5:30 — Dinner; 6:30 — Induction ceremony
Where: Lansing Center
Tickets: $40 per person, call (517) 484-0677 or email [email protected] for information.
2025 inductees: Lauren Aitch, Jack Anderson, Casey Cunningham, Steve Maidlow, Phil Magsig, Casey Rost, Beth Swears, Carlton Valentine, 1981 Okemos girls basketball, 1999 Williamston wrestling
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This article originally appeared on Lansing State Journal: GL Sports Hall inductee Lauren Aitch-Guerrant achieved hoop dreams
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