Colorado forward to transfer to Missouri State

Kennedy Taylor, a 6-foot-3 switch ahead from Colorado, introduced her dedication to the Missouri State Woman Bears on Monday evening.

Taylor is coming off her freshman yr with the Buffaloes. She performed 19 whole minutes in eight appearances.

She turns into the third recruit for this upcoming season to decide to new head coach Beth Cunningham together with Kansas switch Aniya Thomas and Moberly Space Neighborhood School switch Indya Inexperienced.

Out of highschool, Taylor was a saught-after recruit because the No. 2 participant popping out of Kansas, as ranked by Prepgirlshoops.com and was a multi-time First Staff All-State choice.

Taylor was the 2021 Sports activities in Kansas 6A Participant of the Yr as a senior and averaged 14.9 factors and 11 rebounds per sport. She helped lead Shawnee Mission Northwest Excessive to the varsity’s first state basketball title with an ideal 23-0 report.

This is not the primary time Taylor has been related to Missouri State as she was provided by former head coach Amaka Agugua-Hamilton earlier than she selected to play at Colorado. She additionally held presents from Memphis, Temple and George Washington.

Taylor’s addition offers the Woman Bears 12 gamers on the roster for the upcoming season. Cunningham has teased she might probably fill your entire roster to the utmost allotted 15 scholarships which might be allowed by ladies’s basketball versus 13 allowed in males’s hoops. 

Wyatt D. Wheeler is a reporter and columnist with the Springfield Information-Chief. You possibly can contact him at 417-371-6987, by electronic mail at wwheeler@news-leader.com or Twitter at @WyattWheeler_NL. He is additionally the co-host of Sports activities Speak on Jock Radio weekdays from 4-6 p.m.