{"id":47156,"date":"2026-09-15T04:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/kate-koval-ukrainian-player-transfers-from-lsu-to-baylor-after-russia-controversy\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T04:51:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:51:29","slug":"kate-koval-ukrainian-player-transfers-from-lsu-to-baylor-after-russia-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/kate-koval-ukrainian-player-transfers-from-lsu-to-baylor-after-russia-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Koval: Ukrainian player transfers from LSU to Baylor after Russia controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ukrainian basketball player Kate Koval has joined a new college team after leaving Louisiana State University <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cgmr8ny1eeno\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">because they had signed a Russian player.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Koval, 20, was granted a transfer waiver by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the request of LSU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The waiver allowed Koval to join a new team despite the transfer window closing in April, and she has signed with Baylor University in Texas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Koval played in all 35 of LSU&#8217;s matches last season, averaging 8.3 points and 6.3 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But following the arrival of 17-year-old Anna Minaeva, it was announced that Koval had departed for &#8220;personal reasons&#8221; after her first season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Koval then said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/topics\/c1vw6q14rzqt\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Russia&#8217;s ongoing invasion of Ukraine<\/a> was why she stepped away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My father serves in the Ukrainian military and takes tremendous pride in defending his country against Russian aggression,&#8221; she wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cj3dzd01e28o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian basketball player Kate Koval has joined a new college team after leaving Louisiana State University because they had signed a Russian player. Koval, 20, was granted a transfer waiver by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the request of LSU. The waiver allowed Koval to join a new team despite the transfer window [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47158,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47156\/revisions\/47158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}