It’s official this time.
After entering the transfer portal, former LSU and Louisville star Hailey Van Lith has officially committed to TCU, she announced Friday on her social media.
“The pen has officially dropped into the paper,” she wrote on X and Instagram along with a video of herself in a TCU jersey.
This concludes a confusing period in the portal where it appeared Van Lith was headed to TCU last week, which took a slight turn a few days later, but she now officially becomes a member of the Horned Frogs.
LSU head coach Kim Mulkey recently discussed Van Lith’s departure from the team after an up-and-down season, which ended against Iowa in the Elite Eight, where the guard fifth-grader received 41 points and 12 assists from Caitlin Clark. .
While Van Lith was at Louisville in 2022-23, this season ended the same way — in the Elite Eight against the Hawkeyes, where Clark erupted for 41 points and 12 assists.
“She wanted to improve her strengths by coming to LSU with the goal of expanding her game by learning a position I’ve played my whole life,” Mulkey said of Van Lith. “Because she knows that at the next level, that’s her only chance: to be able to kind of tell them, ‘I can handle the ball if you need me to.'”
Van Lith was part of a 2020 high school recruiting class ranked No. 7 in the country in ESPN’s rankings among Clarke, Paige Bueckers, Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso.
Van Lith was a two-time first-team All-ACC honoree in 2022 and 2023 at Louisville.
During her junior campaign, she averaged 19.7 points per game.
In Van Lith’s lone season at LSU, she posted 11.6 points and a career-high 3.6 assists per contest.
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