{"id":266547,"date":"2026-04-26T02:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266547\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T02:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:32:09","slug":"aaliyah-moore-commits-to-lady-vols-basketball-as-texas-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266547\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaliyah Moore commits to Lady Vols basketball as Texas transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lady Vols basketball<\/a>\u00a0is adding some size as Texas transfer forward Aaliyah Moore<\/a> is transferring into the program.<\/p>\n

Moore visited Tennessee on Friday and admitted the visit exceeded her expectations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be completely honest with you, they did a heck of a job on my visit,\u201d Moore said. \u201cIt exceeded my expectations, and the number one thing that I told coach on the phone before I even went to the school was that I just wanted to feel wanted by everyone. The minute I got on campus, that\u2019s all I felt from coach Kim all the way down to the managers.\u201d <\/p>\n

The 6-foot-1 forward is averaging 8.9 points and 4.7 rebounds in 89 career games in four seasons at Texas. She had surgeries on both knees, ending her season in the 2024-25 campaign and did not play last season while recovering.<\/p>\n

Moore started all 19 games in the 2024-25 season before her season ended due to injuries. She averaged a career-high 11.3 points and 6.1 rebounds in the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n

Moore was a McDonald\u2019s All-American in 2021. She is from Moore, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

The Lady Vols and coach\u00a0Kim Caldwell\u00a0have now added 11 transfers and currently have 13 players on the roster.<\/p>\n

Tennessee has added six guards in\u00a0Harissoum Coulibaly<\/a>\u00a0(Auburn),\u00a0Avery Mills<\/a>\u00a0(Liberty),\u00a0Kaylene Smikle<\/a>\u00a0(Maryland),\u00a0Rylie Theuerkauf<\/a>\u00a0(Georgia),\u00a0Naomi White<\/a>\u00a0(Northern Arizona), Shaelyn Steele<\/a>\u00a0(Penn State) and Jada Eads<\/a> (Seton Hall). The Lady Vols added\u00a0Zhen Craft<\/a>\u00a0(Georgia),\u00a0Harper Peterson<\/a>\u00a0(Stanford) Fatmata Janneh<\/a>\u00a0(Texas A&M).<\/p>\n

Caldwell also has signed two high school players in Georgia forward\u00a0Gabby Minus<\/a>\u00a0and guard\u00a0Irene Oboavwoduo<\/a>, who is from England.<\/p>\n

The 5-10 Coulibaly started 18 of 31 games at Auburn, averaging 10.4 points and 3.0 rebounds per game as a freshman.<\/p>\n

The 5-9 Mills where she averaged 15.3 points this season as a sophomore at Liberty, while shooting 42.7% on 3-pointers. She earned First Team All-Conference honors. She was also named to the Conference USA All-Freshman Team in 2024.<\/p>\n

Smikle is averaging 17.2 points per game and is shooting 34.9% on 3-pointers in four seasons. The 6-foot guard played two seasons at Rutgers and two at Maryland. Smikle played in only seven games as a senior at Maryland last season before having season-ending surgery, which led to her having another year of eligibility.<\/p>\n

Theuerkauf was Georgia\u2019s best 3-point shooter, hitting 71 3-pointers at a 40.6% clip. The 5-9 guard averaged 11.9 points and ended the season on a hot streak. She scored in double-figures in nine of her final 12 games. She had two games with five 3-pointers and at least 20 points in that span.<\/p>\n

The 5-9 White was the highest-scoring freshman in Division I last season. She averaged 20.8 points at Northern Arizona. She set school records for single-season scoring with 667 points and 92 3-pointers.<\/p>\n

The 5-6 Steele played in 27 games last season starting 8. She averaged 2 points a game and 3 rebounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Steele also had 31 assists. In two seasons with the Nittany Lions, Steele had 39 steals.<\/p>\n

Craft is a 6-2 forward who was one of Georgia\u2019s top reserves as a freshman. She played in 27 games with four starts, averaging 15.8 minutes per game. She averaged 5.7 points and 4.2 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Janneh, a 6-2 forward from England, averaged just shy of a double-double last season at Texas A&M.<\/p>\n

Janneh spent one season at Texas A&M after starting her career at Saint Peter\u2019s. She was a superstar for the Peacocks. She averaged 18.2 points and 11.6 rebounds per game as a sophomore. Janneh led Division I in defensive rebounds that season.<\/p>\n

Peterson played in 10 games logging a total of 37 minutes on the floor last season and she scored a total of 11 points.\u00a0She was returning from a season-ending injury as a freshman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lady Vols basketball\u00a0is adding some size as Texas transfer forward Aaliyah Moore is transferring into the program. Moore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[585,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-266547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-regwall","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266547","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=266547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}