{"id":266721,"date":"2026-04-14T04:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266721\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T04:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:37:12","slug":"yelena-savic-commits-to-sacramento-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266721\/","title":{"rendered":"Yelena Savic commits to Sacramento State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON, Ky (WEHT) \u2013\u00a0Yelena Savic becomes the first former University of Evansville women\u2019s basketball player to find a new home from the transfer portal.<\/p>\n<p>The freshman wing has committed to continue her collegiate career at Sacramento State.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The 5\u201911 Australia native appeared in all 35 games for the Purple Aces this past season while making two starts. She averaged about 5.2 points and 3.1 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>Savic is one of many UE players to enter the portal following the departure of head coach Robyn Scherr.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tristatehomepage.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to Eyewitness News (WEHT\/WTVW).;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to Eyewitness News (WEHT\/WTVW).&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to Eyewitness News (WEHT\/WTVW). <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HENDERSON, Ky (WEHT) \u2013\u00a0Yelena Savic becomes the first former University of Evansville women\u2019s basketball player to find a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[116547,11141,116548,116546,121,123,122,5481,116544,116545],"class_list":{"0":"post-266721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-collegiate-career","9":"tag-henderson","10":"tag-ky","11":"tag-purple-aces","12":"tag-sacramento","13":"tag-sacramento-headlines","14":"tag-sacramento-news","15":"tag-sacramento-state","16":"tag-university-of-evansville","17":"tag-yelena-savic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}