Conference: SEC

Head Coach: Kim Caldwell (1st season in 2024-25)

Official Lady Vols roster

Unofficial Tennessee Women’s Basketball
Scholarship Chart

Note: The NCAA granted an extra year of eligibility to 2020-21 D-I winter sports athletes (including women’s basketball players). Until there is definitive word that a player will be taking advantage of this extra year, the WBB Blog scholarship charts will not reflect this extra eligibility.

Personnel Notes:

• March 2023: Tamari Key, Rickea Jackson, and Jasmine Powell all announce that they’ll return to Tennessee for the 2023-24 season, using their extra COVID year
• March 2023: Marta Suárez enters her name into the transfer portal . . . and lands at Cal
• April 2023: Destinee Wells transfers in from Belmont (press release)
• April 2023 transfer portal entrants: Brooklynn Miles (to Kentucky) and Justine Pissott (to Vanderbilt)
• April 2023: Kaniya Boyd (2024) commits to Tennessee
• April 2023: Avery Strickland transfers in from Pitt (press release)
• May 2023: Wake Forest transfer Jewel Spear commits to Tennessee
• June 2023: Liza Fruendt is promoted from director of recruiting operations to assistant coach (press release)
• August 2023: South Carolina transfer Talaysia Cooper signs with Tennessee and will sit out the 2023-24 season (press release)
• December 2023: Destinee Wells is out for the season with a “lower leg injury”
• January 2024: 2024 signee Kaniya Boyd enrolls early
• March 2024: Jewel Spear announces she’ll return to Tennessee for the 2024-25 season, using her extra COVID year
• April 2024: Kellie Harper is out as head coach (press release)
• April 2024: Tennessee commits Nyla Brooks (2025) and Finley Chastain (2027) reopen their recruitment
• April 2024: Kim Caldwell is named the new head coach (press release)
• April 2024: Tess Darby announces she’ll return to Tennessee for the 2024-25 season, using her COVID extra year
• April 2024: Caldwell announces the hiring of four assistant coaches—Roman Tubner, Gabe Lazo, Jenna Burdette, and Angel Rizor (press release)
• April 2024: Karoline Striplin enters the transfer portal (and transfers to Indiana)
• April 2024 transfer additions: Alyssa Latham (Syracuse; press release) and Lazaria Spearman (Miami [FL]; press release)

2024 Recruiting Class

2024 Tennessee Women’s Basketball Commitments

Kaniya Boyd, 5-8 CG, Centennial HS (Las Vegas, NV) [committed 4/17/2023; signed 11/8/2023; enrolled early, in January 2024]

2024 Targets

[none known]

Former 2024 Targets

Imari Berry, 5-10 CG, Clarksville HS (TN) [offered February 2022; committed to Clemson, August 2023]

Mikayla Blakes, 6-0 CG, Rutgers Prep (Somerset, NJ) [offered May 2022; Tennessee among seven finalists announced in August 2023; committed to Vanderbilt, January 2024]

Tahj Bloom, 6-3 W/F, Grayslake Central HS (IL) [offered May 2021; committed to Mississippi State, June 2023]

Alexandra Blue, 6-2 W, Lake Highland Prep School (Orlando, FL) [offered December 2022; committed to Virginia Tech, July 2023]

Jaloni Cambridge, 5-7 PG, Enswoth HS (Nashville, TN) [Tennessee not among seven finalists announced in June 2023]

Justice Carlton, 6-2 F, Seven Lakes HS (Katy, TX) [Tennessee not among five finalists announced in May 2023]

Morgan Cheli, 6-0 CG, Archbishop Mitty HS (San Jose, CA) [offered June 2022; committed to UConn, April 2023]

Joyce Edwards, 6-2 F, Camden HS (SC) [offered May 2021; Tennessee not among three finalists]

Kayleigh Heckel, 5-9 PG, Long Island Lutheran HS (Brookville, NY) [Tennessee among four finalists announced in October 2023; committed to Southern Cal, November 2023]

Avery Howell, 6-0 SG/W, Boise HS (ID) [offered July 2023; Tennessee not among five finalists announced in August 2023]

Kate Koval, 6-5 C, Long Island Lutheran HS (Brookville, NY) [committed to Notre Dame, October 2023]

Jordan Lee, 6-0 W, St. Mary’s HS (Stockton, CA) [offered April 2022; Tennessee not among 11 finalists announced in July 2023]

Madisen McDaniel, 5-7 PG, Bishop McNamara (Forestville, MD) [Tennessee among four finalists; committed to South Carolina, August 2023]

Olivia Olson, 6-1 PG, Benilde St. Margaret’s HS (St. Louis Park, MN) [offered June 2021; Tennessee among ten finalists announced in August 2022; committed to Michigan, September 2022]

Me’Arah O’Neal, 6-3 F/C, Episcopal HS (Bellaire, TX) [offered April 2023; Tennessee among five finalists; committed to Florida, November 2023]

Taliyah Parker, 6-1 G, South Grand Prairie HS (TX) {previously attended Putnam City West HS (Oklahoma City, OK)} [offered June 2021; Tennessee not among eight finalists announced in August 2023]

Bryanna Preston, 5-8 PG, Lovejoy HS (Hampton, GA) [offered October 2022; Tennessee among seven finalists announced in June 2023; committed to Texas, October 2023]

Arianna Roberson, 6-4 F, Clark HS (San Antonio, TX) [offered October 2022; Tennessee not among five finalists announced in October 2023]

Clara Silva, 6-6 C, Portugal [committed to Virginia Tech, September 2023]

Zania Socka-Nguemen, 6-4 F/C, Sidwell Friends School (Washington, DC) [offered May 2023; Tennessee among four finalists; committed to UCLA, October 2023]

Blanca Thomas, 6-5 C, Charlotte Catholic HS (NC) [offered June 2021; Tennessee among ten finalists announced in August 2022; committed to North Carolina, May 2023]

Ava Watson, 5-8 PG, Buford HS (GA) [offered July 2021; committed to Ohio State, June 2023]

See next page for 2025 commitments and targets for Tennessee women’s basketball

Disclaimers: The roster information, offers, and commitments are all unofficial. Offers come and go, so some offers listed may no longer be on the table, and some offers are erroneously reported. In addition, the target lists are inevitably incomplete because offers are not publicly reported for many prospects.

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