The UConn girls’s basketball staff is including the Ivy League Participant of the 12 months from the switch portal.
Kaitlyn Chen has dedicated to the Huskies after enjoying the former 3 years at Princeton. below former UConn ahead Carla Berube. She introduced her switch on Sunday morning by way of social media.
The 5-foot-9 senior was once Princeton’s main scorer for the previous two seasons. Closing season, she gained Ivy League Participant of the 12 months honors through averaging 15.8 issues, 4.9 assists, 3.5 rebounds and 1.3 steals in line with recreation.
Chen has been even higher within the postseason, averaging 20.3 issues in 8 video games and profitable Ivy League match Maximum Remarkable Participant honors right through the previous two seasons. Princeton made the NCAA girls’s match right through every of Chen’s 3 seasons. This 12 months, the Tigers misplaced to West Virginia within the first spherical.
In opposition to most sensible pageant, Chen excelled in matchups as opposed to UCLA (24 issues), Oklahoma (20 issues) and Villanova (31 issues). She additionally scored 18 issues towards UConn in a 2024 recreation.
“In any large scenario she rises to the instance and the problem,” Berube informed CT Insider’s Carl Adamec in February. “She does not backtrack within the vibrant lighting and he or she’s in a position to do what her staff wishes for us to achieve success. She did that towards UCLA this 12 months and the Ivy League match closing 12 months and the 12 months sooner than. She’s difficult, gritty.”
The 5-foot-9 senior is predicted to begin at level guard, changing Nika Muhl, who left for the WNBA after this previous season. She and Paige Bueckers (who averaged 21 issues in line with recreation closing season) must give the Huskies an impressive backcourt in conjunction with Azzi Fudd and KK Arnold as they pursue every other Ladies’s Ultimate 4 and nationwide championship.
UConn additionally added the country’s No. 1 recruit, Sarah Sturdy, in a while after shedding to Iowa within the Ultimate 4.
Chen dedicated to UConn after visiting Storrs closing Tuesday. She’s going to switch as a graduate scholar, having one closing season of eligibility because of the NCAA’s COVID-19 waiver. The Ivy League does now not supply student-athletes with a 5th 12 months of eligibility, placing Chen ready the place she needed to switch to stay enjoying.