The finest received even higher on Thursday.
Hailey Van Lith, a two-time First-Team All-ACC choice as a member of the Louisville Cardinals, introduced she is going to switch to the defending nationwide champion LSU Tigers for the 2023-24 season.
Louisville Cardinal guard Hailey Van Lith throughout a press convention at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle on March 25, 2023. (Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)
“Eleven,” Van Lith wrote on Twitter dribbling a basketball in entrance of the Tigers emblem.
Her new teammate, Angel Reese, celebrated the choice as effectively.
“Oh it’s UP,” Reese wrote.
Van Lith entered the switch portal on the finish of the ladies’s faculty basketball season. She’s set to graduate from Louisville in May, incomes her diploma in finance in three years. She has two extra years of eligibility left due to the COVID yr.
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“It’s been an honor during the last three years to have had the chance to pour my ardour and coronary heart into Louisville,” she wrote on Instagram. “This metropolis has impacted my life in so some ways and helped form me into the particular person I’m immediately. The Louisville neighborhood has given to me selflessly. I’ll always remember your unwavering help.”
Louisville Cardinals guard Hailey Van Lith celebrates on the finish of the sport in opposition to the Ole Miss Rebels on March 24, 2023, in Seattle. (Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)
Louisville’s Hailey Van Lith drives round Ole Miss’ Tyia Singleton in the course of the Sweet 16 match on the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle on March 24, 2023. (Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal/USA Today Network)
She averaged a career-high 19.7 factors per recreation in the course of the 2022-23 season. She averaged 4.5 rebounds and three.2 assists.
She scored a complete of 1,553 factors within the three years.
“We thank Hailey for her contributions to this program, this faculty and this neighborhood,” Louisville coach Jeff Walz stated. “She has accomplished every part we’ve requested of her over the previous three years, and we want her the easiest in her ultimate collegiate season and past.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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