GamecockScoop – WBB signs center Sakima Walker in transfer portal

Daybreak Staley has her newest addition within the switch portal and it is the most important one but — actually.

Former Rutgers and Northwest Florida State School heart Sakima Walker dedicated to the Gamecocks, taking her 6-foot-5 dimension right down to Columbia to hitch forces with 6-foot-7 Kamilla Cardoso as a formidable paint tandem for South Carolina.

Walker began her profession by taking part in in 32 video games throughout her two seasons with the Scarlet Knights and averaged 4 factors per sport, solely getting her work performed across the basket with all two-point discipline objectives and free throws in a mean of 10.8 minutes per sport with Rutgers.

After her sophomore yr in Piscataway she transferred to JUCO Northwest Florida State for a season, the place she averaged 16.7 factors per sport in 32 video games and shot only a tick beneath 60 p.c from the ground whereas serving to the Raiders win the NJCAA Championship. She logged 41 factors within the time beyond regulation championship victory, scoring 23 factors and grabbing 12 rebounds.

Though she has by no means performed towards South Carolina or within the SEC, Walker does haves one South Carolina connection from her highschool days. The Columbus, Ohio native performed towards Zia Cooke in highschool, herself only one yr youthful than Cooke.

South Carolina’s frontcourt for the 2023-24 season now contains Walker, Cardoso, junior Sania Feagin and sophomores Ashlyn Watkins and Chloe Kitts. Walker will be part of former Oregon guard Te-hina Paopao as transfers coming into this system.

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