Women’s basketball: Gophers get commitment from Wisconsin wing Grace Grocholski

The Minnesota’s girls’s basketball program simply nabbed considered one of Wisconsin’s prime recruits, courtesy of latest coach Daybreak Plitzuweit: Kettle Moraine’s Grace “G.G.” Grocholski.

A 5-foot-10 wing, Grocholski was headed for West Virginia earlier than the Plitzuweit, then the Mountaineers coach, left to succeed Lindsay Whalen at Minnesota final week. Grocholski was launched from her Nationwide Letter of Intent and on Sunday declared on Twitter that she had dedicated to the Gophers.

“I’m pleased to announce that I can be attending the College of Minnesota to proceed my tutorial and athletic profession,” she wrote. “As soon as once more I wish to thank my household, my highschool and AAU coaches, and my teammates. After a protracted recruiting journey, Go Gophers.”

She initially dedicated to Arizona State however was launched from her NIL when coach Charli Turner Thorne retired. ESPN ranked her the 98th general recruit within the 2023 class.

Grocholski averaged 24.7 factors, 9.4 rebounds, 4.1 assists, and a couple of.8 steals a sport and led Kettle Moraine to a 28-1 file and a second straight Division I state championship as a senior.

She was named the Wisconsin Sports activities Community 2023 wing of the yr and was thrice chosen to the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Affiliation all-state first group. Throughout her 4 seasons at Kettle Moraine, the Lasers went 91-18.

Minnesota has misplaced two returners since Whalen formally stepped down as coach on March 2.

Publish Alanna Rose Micheaux declared she would enter the NCAA switch portal after averaging a team-high eight rebounds and 13.8 factors a sport as a sophomore and was honorable point out all-Large Ten. Katie Borowicz, a 5-7 level guard from Roseau, introduced final week she is retiring from basketball for medical causes. She averaged 8.5 factors and three.0 assists a sport and shot 37 p.c from 3-point vary for the Gophers, who completed 11-19 general, 4-14 after dropping to Penn State within the first spherical of the Large Ten convention event on March 1.

However the Gophers have three gifted freshmen returning — main scorer Mara Braun, assists chief Amaya Battle and Mallory Heyer, a 6-1 wing who averaged 10.4 factors and seven.1 rebounds — and a giant recruiting class that features Sophie Hart, a 6-5 middle who left N.C. State in January.

Niamaya Holloway, a 5-11 wing from Eden Prairie and a part of a High Ten recruiting class in 2022, is predicted to return from a knee damage this fall, as effectively.