Transfer guard from ACC commits to Dawn Staley’s Gamecocks
Less than 72 hours after winning the national championship, Dawn Staley has already started reloading next year’s Gamecocks.
South Carolina women’s basketball secured a commitment from former Georgia Tech guard Kierra Fletcher, she announced in an Instagram post Wednesday. Fletcher posted a graphic with the caption “thankful.”
A 5-foot-9 guard from Warren, Michigan, Fletcher was the Yellow Jackets’ second-leading scorer in the 2020-21 season and helped Georgia Tech to the Sweet 16 that season, where they were — ironically — eliminated by South Carolina 76-65. She averaged 13 points and five rebounds in her most recent season and shot 35.9% (23 of 64) from behind the arc.
Fletcher did not play in the 2021-22 season, opting for a medical redshirt after a foot injury, Georgia Tech’s student newspaper The Technique reported last November. She entered the transfer portal last February.
Fletcher will be a sixth-year senior in Columbia after playing four seasons with Georgia Tech and taking a fifth year for a medical redshirt. She started all 34 games as a freshman in the 2017-18 season, earning a spot on the ACC All-Freshman team in 2018.
Staley used the transfer portal to get another ACC player last season, when the Gamecocks signed former Syracuse center Kamilla Cardoso for the 2021-22 season.
Fletcher will join Gamecock high school signees Ashlyn Watkins and Talaysia Cooper, both espnW top 20 commits, as new additions to South Carolina’s 2022-23 roster.
This story was originally published April 6, 2022 at 3:25 PM.
