Ex-Iowa St. guard Donarski transferring to UNC

Guard Lexi Donarski introduced on social media Monday that she is transferring to play for the North Carolina Tar Heels girls’s basketball staff. She has two seasons of eligibility left.

Donarski was a three-year starter for the Iowa State Cyclones, and was a part of their Huge 12 match championship staff this season, by which she averaged 12.1 factors and a couple of.9 rebounds. The Cyclones, 22-10, fell within the NCAA match first spherical to the Toledo Rockets.

Within the 2021-2022 season, Donarski helped Iowa State make the NCAA Candy 16 and was named Huge 12 defensive participant of the yr.

Donarski is one in every of two gamers in ESPN’s top-10 girls’s basketball transfers, as ranked by ESPN’s Charlie Creme, who’ve just lately joined ACC groups.

Donarski, ranked No. 3, leaves the Huge 12. Guard Shayeann Day-Wilson, ranked No. 9, is staying within the ACC as she transfers from Duke to the Miami Hurricanes. Miami, which superior to the NCAA Elite Eight for the primary time this season, introduced the addition of Day-Wilson on Monday after she posted her determination on social media Sunday.

The 6-foot Donarski, who’s from La Crosse, Wisconsin, dedicated to Iowa State earlier than she started highschool. Then she began all 95 video games she performed at Iowa State, averaging 13.2 factors and three.2 rebounds whereas making 196 3-pointers. She now joins a Tar Heels staff that went 22-11 and fell within the second spherical of the NCAA match to the Ohio State Buckeyes.

The Tar Heels misplaced second-leading scorer Kennedy Todd-Williams, a guard who transferred to the Ole Miss Rebels, and reserve wing Future Adams, who transferred to the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. However now North Carolina has added Donarski together with ahead/middle Maria Gakdeng, who transferred from the Boston Faculty Eagles.