LSU women’s basketball adds three guards from the transfer portal

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - In a press release, LSU Coach Kim Mulkey announced the addition of Shayeann Day-Wilson, Kailyn Gilbert, and Mjracle Sheppard, three guards who the team hope will bolster the Tigers’ perimeter depth.

They will join transfer forward Jersey Wolfenbarger and Jada Richard, Louisiana’s high school player of the year, as the five new additions on LSU’s roster heading into the 2024-25 season.

“We could not be more excited to add Shayeann, Kailyn, and Mjracle to the LSU family,” Coach Kim Mulkey said. “The three of them will add a combination of experience and depth on the perimeter for us and will bolster our roster to continue to compete at an elite level.”

Coach Mulkey shared her excitement for the new additions on social media ahead of the announcement.

Sheppard, a native of Kent, Washington, will join the Tigers after spending her freshman season in Starkville at Mississippi State.

During her time there, Sheppard averaged 5.1 points and 2.1 assists per game with 48 total steals. She scored in double figures in three games with a career high of 14 against Jacksonville State. She also had 3+ steals in six games, including a career high of 7 against Kennesaw State.

Gilbert will come to LSU after spending the previous two seasons at Arizona. During her sophomore season, she averaged 15.1 points per game. She had a total of 88 assists during her two seasons in Tucson.

She scored over 20 points in six games during her sophomore season and earned one Pac 12 Player of the Week honor. Her assists went from 1.1 per game as a freshman to 2.3 during this past season.

Day-Wilson, the 2022 ACC Freshman of the Year, comes to LSU after spending a season at Miami and before that, two seasons at Duke. In three seasons, Day-Wilson has averaged 10.8 points per game with 300 assists and 79 steals. She has started 71 games and played in a total of 93 games throughout her college career.

The Toronto, Ontario native was the top-rated Canadian guard in the class of 2021, ranked No. 41 overall in the class according to ESPN HoopGurlz. She played on numerous Canadian national teams, including on the U23 Canada team that won the gold medal at the inaugural GLOBLJAM International Basketball Showcase in 2022 and with the U19 Canada team the 2021 FIBA World Cup in Hungary.

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