Originally Laramie didn’t intend on playing basketball, instead playing soccer during her younger years. She picked up basketball later in her life, after sprouting up and growing taller than her peers.
“I played soccer since preschool,” Laramie said. “My soccer coach started a soccer team, and I have always been really tall, so he asked me if I wanted to come play for his team, and that was around third grade.”
Laramie improved her basketball skills through the years and was the standout player of Fort Zumwalt West High School in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri.