Wing Ayla McDowell is officially a Gamecocks. She signed her financial aid agreement during a signing ceremony Wednesday morning. McDowell committed to South Carolina on October 24, giving the Gamecocks their first commitment of the 2025 class.<\/p>\n
McDowell\u2019s other finalists were Georgia Tech, Florida, LSU, TCU, and Mississippi State.\u00a0<\/p>\n
McDowell visited Columbia on October 5 and attended South Carolina\u2019s football game against Ole Miss. She announced following the visit that she was shutting down her recruitment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Following the visit, McDowell described her visit to On3\u2019s Talia Goodman.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just a great environment,\u201d she said. \u201cI felt loved by the coaches, loved by the players. I got to see everything. I didn\u2019t expect it to be as good as I thought it was going to be, but it\u2019s pretty chill. South Carolina is a good place to be. Everything is very close by and engineering is amazing as well. So, I mean, I just felt loved. I\u2019ve been talking to Dawn [Staley] for some time now, and it\u2019s always a good conversation when we\u2019re on the phone.\u201d<\/p>\n
[STOP! Don\u2019t rely on search engines and social media for YOUR South Carolina WBB info. Sign up for the free GamecocksW newsletter.]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n McDowell is a 6-2 wing from Cypress, TX. She plays for Cy-Fair, who won the Nike national championship in 2024. She is ranked 24th in the class by On3 and 22nd by ESPN HoopGurlz.<\/p>\n McDowell competes internationally for Brazil and had a strong showing at the U18 AmeriCup over the summer. She averaged 14.8 points and 7.7 rebounds and finished as the second-leading scorer and ninth-leading rebounder in the tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n McDowell is a versatile player with a nice mid-range jump shot who finishes well at the rim. McDowell has three-point range, although she needs to get more consistent from behind the arc. She scored her 2,000th career point in her last game. Her size and athleticism make McDowell a good defender.\u00a0<\/p>\n The post South Carolina women\u2019s basketball: Ayla McDowell signs with the Gamecocks<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wing Ayla McDowell is officially a Gamecocks. She signed her financial aid agreement during a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Discuss South Carolina women\u2019s basketball on The Insiders Forum!<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n