Key­la Snow­den, a for­mer Uni­ver­si­ty of Ken­tucky bas­ket­ball stand­out of T&T parent­age re­cent­ly re­turned to her roots when she judged on a pan­el at the All-Star fix­ture in the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed ex­hi­bi­tion tour be­tween T&T's schools' bas­ket­ball stand­outs and the vis­it­ing Top Achiev­ers Foun­da­tion (TAF), from Texas, USA.She ar­rived on the same flight TAF team on Au­gust 1 and al­so toured To­ba­go with the Texas team. Key­la, who grad­u­at­ed from UK with a de­gree in com­mu­ni­ca­tions, per­formed in a men­tor­ing role for both the TAF boys' Un­der-17 team and the T&T Schools Bas­ket­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTS­BA) All-Star teams.

A na­tive of Lex­ing­ton, Ken­tucky, Snow­den is the daugh­ter of Sharadon Bartholomew Jack who is orig­i­nal­ly from Bel­mont, Trinidad. Whilst on tour, Snow­den met with sev­er­al of­fi­cials from the Min­istry of Sport and TTS­BA re­gard­ing a fu­ture role in the de­vel­op­ment of bas­ket­ball through­out the twin is­lands. Snow­den has stat­ed her in­ten­tions of re­turn­ing to T&T to ex­plore pos­si­ble avail­able op­por­tu­ni­ties.At school lev­el, Snow­den was an All-State guard at Lex­ing­ton Catholic High School where she won two Ken­tucky State Cham­pi­onships and was named Sweet Six­teen MVP in 2006. She led Lex­ing­ton Catholic to a 130-14 record over her four-year ca­reer and three con­sec­u­tive state ti­tle game ap­pear­ances. For her ca­reer, she to­taled 1,908 ca­reer points while set­ting state records for sin­gle-sea­son free throw per­cent­age (91.0 per cent as a se­nior) and ca­reer free throw per­cent­age (84.7 per cent).

At col­lege as a ju­nior, she start­ed in 18 match­es in­clud­ing the last sev­en of the sea­son. She played her best in Ken­tucky's biggest games, which in­clud­ed five 3-point­ers and 17 points in a win over num­ber 12 Notre Dame and a team-high 15 points against num­ber three Duke. She was named SEC Play­er of the Week in De­cem­ber, 2010, af­ter scor­ing a ca­reer-high 28 points in on­ly 19 min­utes against Arkansas-Pine Bluff.Dur­ing her se­nior sea­son, Snow­den was third on the team in scor­ing as Ken­tucky spent most of the year ranked among the na­tion's Top Ten. She led UK to the school's first SEC Cham­pi­onship in three decades and an­oth­er Elite Eight ap­pear­ance in the 2012 NCAA Tour­na­ment. Her hon­ors in­clud­ed be­ing named the SEC Co-6 ti­tle for all of UK Ath­let­ics for the 2011-12 school year.

Fol­low­ing the All-Star game on Au­gust 9, Snow­den so­cialised with mem­bers of both teams be­fore at­tend­ing a prac­tice game be­tween T&T Se­nior Women Net­ball team against their ju­nior coun­ter­parts.Or­ga­niz­ers of the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed tour said, hope­ful­ly, with such ex­cel­lent all-round achieve­ments, Snow­den will be able at some stage to make a valu­able con­tri­bu­tion to not on­ly bas­ket­ball but more so the so­cial de­vel­op­ment of T&T young ath­letes.