KU guard transfers to Lady Bears
I'm Dan Lucy on the Ozarks First digital desk.
Beth Cunningham has a new shooting guard.
In our Bear Nation update.
The Lady Bears coach has signed transfer Zoe Canfield.
Canfield spent her freshman year at Kansas where she appeared in 15 games with one start.
Her best outing was a 12 point performance at K-State.
Canfield is from Topeka, and won state championships for Washburn Rural high school in both basketball and volleyball.
Her brother Jett played hoops at Creighton.
And both her mother and father were collegiate athletes at Washburn in the mid-90's.
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