Aaliyah Chavez, No. 1 recruit in 2025 class, commits to Oklahoma over South Carolina, UCLA
Aaliyah Chavez, the nation's No. 1 recruit in the 2025 class and the sole uncommitted player left in ESPN's HoopGurlz top-100 ranking, announced her commitment to Oklahoma on Tuesday afternoon. Her six finalists had been Texas Tech, Texas, LSU, Oklahoma, South Carolina and UCLA.
'I'm not just joining a program, I'm joining a family,' Chavez said. 'I'm ready to give my all to make this my home and bring a national championship to the city of Norman.'
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Chavez, the Gatorade national player of the year, joins a Sooners recruiting class that already includes guard Keziah Lofton and forward Brooklyn Stewart, the 50th and 62nd-ranked players, respectively, in 2025. The group was ranked No. 25 in ESPN's most recent ranking of the top-25 recruiting classes at the beginning of March, but Chavez's commitment should vault them into at least the top 20.
The 5-foot-11 point guard who hails from Lubbock, Texas won the 5A Texas state championship earlier this month with her Monterey High School team. She scored 19 points in the title game en route to being named MVP. With that win, she capped her high school career by totaling 4,796 points, 1,279 rebounds and 771 assists.
Chavez, who also won a 2024 national championship with Cyfair Elite on the EYBL circuit, is a three-level scorer who can finish through contact at the rim. She has good size to defend on the perimeter, and during her high school career, she averaged nearly three steals per game through four seasons.
At Oklahoma, Chavez could see immediate playing time, as the Sooners are graduating Payton Verhulst, Skylar Vann, Lexy Keys and Nevaeh Tot. Chavez will get to play with center Raegan Beers in the post and bolster a perimeter group of Sahara Williams and Zya Vann, who are playing in the Sweet 16 this Saturday against UConn.
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