Lady Vols forward Favor Ayodele enters transfer portal after Kim Caldwell's first season
Lady Vols basketball forward Favor Ayodele has entered the transfer portal, a source told Knox News on Wednesday.
The source requested anonymity because there hasn't been a public announcement.
Ayodele spent one season at Tennessee and was part of the five-player transfer class Lady Vols coach Kim Caldwell and her staff brought in last spring. Ayodele, who transferred from Pitt, had a limited role this season.
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Ayodele averaged 5.7 minutes and only appeared in 15 games. The 6-foot-1 forward averaged one point and 1.7 rebounds.
She's the second player to enter the transfer portal following Caldwell's first season leading the Lady Vols. Junior guard Avery Strickland entered the transfer portal on April third as a grad transfer after two seasons at Tennessee. Strickland also had a limited role this season.
The fifth-year senior has one year of eligibility left due to the waiver approved by the NCAA Division I Board of the Directors in December after Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia sued the NCAA. The waiver gives athletes an extra year of eligibility in 2025-26 if they previously competed at non-NCAA schools for one or more years and would have exhausted NCAA eligibility after 2024-25.
Ayodele, who's from Móstoles, Spain, has only played two seasons in NCAA Division I. She played three seasons at different junior colleges before playing at Pitt in 2023-24. Ayodele played at Indian River State College, Eastern Florida State College and Independence Community College. She was a second team NJCAA All-American as a junior and a first team NJCAA All-American as a sophomore.
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