{"id":210376,"date":"2025-10-13T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/210376\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:24:08","slug":"south-carolinas-chloe-kitts-torn-acl-to-miss-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/210376\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina’s Chloe Kitts (torn ACL) to miss 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael VoepelOct 13, 2025, 09:58 AM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Michael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.<\/p>\n

South Carolina<\/a> women’s basketball senior starting forward Chloe Kitts<\/a> will miss the 2025-2026 season with a torn ACL in her right knee, the school announced on Monday. She is expected to have surgery this week.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-2 Kitts started the past two seasons for the Gamecocks, who won the national championship in 2024 and fell in the NCAA final last year to UConn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kitts started 38 games last season, averaging 10.2 points and 7.7 rebounds. She was MVP of the SEC tournament and the Birmingham 2 Regional. As a sophomore, Kitts started 31 games, averaging 9.1 points and 5.9 rebounds.<\/p>\n

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“We hate this first for Chloe, who has worked incredibly hard to become the best version of herself on the court this season,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said in a statement. “Her teammates are capable of stepping up, and I know that her competitive fire and tenacity will be felt from the sidelines as she pours what she can into them to ensure our team’s success.”<\/p>\n

Kitts has been projected to be a first-round WNBA draft pick next spring. She could still enter the draft or opt to return for another college season.<\/p>\n

“Thank you to everyone who has reached out with love and support,” Kitts wrote on an Instagram post. “While this isn’t how I expected my senior season would go, I’m trusting God’s timing and purpose. I’ll continue to lead, support and push my team from the sidelines. We have big things ahead!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael VoepelOct 13, 2025, 09:58 AM ET CloseMichael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-210376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}