{"id":246159,"date":"2026-04-12T09:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/246159\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T09:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:09:08","slug":"tcu-womens-basketball-adds-utah-freshman-avery-hjelmstad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/246159\/","title":{"rendered":"TCU women\u2019s basketball adds Utah freshman Avery Hjelmstad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/sports\/college\/big-12\/texas-christian-university\/article315370671.html\">TCU women\u2019s basketball<\/a> has landed another transfer-portal commitment.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/sports\/college\/big-12\/texas-christian-university\/article315355473.html\">The Horned Frogs<\/a> on Saturday landed their fourth transfer with the addition of Utah freshman guard Avery Hjelmstad.<\/p>\n<p>Hjelmstad announced her commitment on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-1 freshman averaged 5.3 points and 1.7 rebounds per game for the Utes this past season. Hjelmstad averaged 14.1 minutes in 31 games and also started once for Utah. She scored three points and grabbed three rebounds in Utah\u2019s 87-77 overtime win against TCU on Jan. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Hjelmstad was a four-star recruit out of Tulsa and was ranked No. 49 by ESPN in her high school recruiting class. She joins a transfer class that includes Oklahoma State point guard Jadyn Wooten, North Carolina shooting guard Lanie Grant and Stanford power forward <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/sports\/college\/big-12\/texas-christian-university\/article315339837.html\">Lara Somfai<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hjelmstad gives the Horned Frogs a bigger guard able to play either shooting guard or small forward. Along with the four transfers, TCU is expecting to retain centers Clara Silva and Sarah Portlock and freshman wing Clara Bielefeld.<\/p>\n<p>Expect the Horned Frogs to continue to be active with more transfer commitments in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TCU women\u2019s basketball has landed another transfer-portal commitment. The Horned Frogs on Saturday landed their fourth transfer with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-246159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}