{"id":271655,"date":"2026-04-29T18:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/271655\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T18:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:17:40","slug":"uta-womens-basketball-adds-katelyn-brinkley-for-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/271655\/","title":{"rendered":"UTA Women\u2019s Basketball Adds Katelyn Brinkley for 2026-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     ARLINGTON, Texas \u2013 Katelyn Brinkley has signed a grant-in-aid agreement to play for UT Arlington in 2026-27, head women&#8217;s basketball coach <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/shereka-wright\/6917\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6917\" target=\"_blank\">Shereka Wright<\/a> announced today.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;Katelyn is a 6-foot-1 athletic forward whose motor and versatility will help us on both ends of the floor,&#8221; Wright said. &#8220;She can guard multiple positions, push the pace in transition, and present mismatches with her ability to shoot the ball from the outside. We&#8217;re excited to have her a part of our family!&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBrinkley, a 6-foot-1 forward, played two seasons at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College and was named to the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) All-Region 23 team and was an All-Mississippi Association of Community Colleges Conference (MACCC) First Team selection in 2025-26.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nShe averaged 13.1 points and 7.0 rebounds per game as a sophomore and had five 20-point performances. As a freshman, she averaged 10.0 points, 6.9 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per contest while collecting five double-doubles.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA native of Ridgeland, Miss., she originally signed with Jackson State following her graduation from Ridgeland High School but redshirted the 2023-24 season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs a high school senior, Brinkley averaged 12.4 points, 6.7 rebounds, 1.5 steals and 1.0 assists and was named to the Capital Sports All-State Third Team. She also was selected for the Mississippi-Alabama All-Star Game and nominated for the McDonald&#8217;s All-American Game.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs a prep junior, she tallied 15.6 points and 6.7 rebounds per game after averaging 12.0 points and 6.5 rebounds her sophomore year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;www.UTAMavs.com&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; ARLINGTON, Texas \u2013 Katelyn Brinkley has signed a grant-in-aid agreement to play for UT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-271655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271655","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=271655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}