Ula Chamberlin

Oregon State guard Donovyn Hunter is leaving the state where she played high school and college basketball and is headed to TCU.

The rising 6-foot sophomore, a South Medford High grad, will play for TCU coach Mark Campbell, formerly an assistant coach at Oregon State and Oregon.

Hunter is the fifth OSU women’s basketball player to announce a transfer decision this week. She joins Adlee Blacklock (Texas Tech), Timea Gardiner (UCLA), Raegan Beers (Oklahoma) and Talia von Oelhoffen (USC) as former players from Oregon State’s 2023-24 Elite Eight squad.

Still yet to decide among OSU players in the transfer portal are Lily Hansford, Martha Pietsch and Dominika Paurova.

Losing Hunter is a blow as she gave hints of stardom during her freshman season at Oregon State. Hunter played more minutes than anyone on the roster, and she started 34 of 35 games. Hunter averaged 6.8 points, 2.5 rebounds and 3.7 assists a game.

Another South Medford product who recently entered the transfer portal is Ula Chamberlin, a reserve guard this last season at Oregon who will attempt to use her final year of eligibility.

Chamberlin, who averaged 2.7 points and 1.4 rebounds in 29 games with eight starts for the Ducks last season, entered the transfer portal Monday. She is entering her sixth-year senior season and final year of eligibility.

The 5-foot-8 guard shot 37.3% from the field, including 42.6% from three last season.

Chamberlin began her career at Weber State in 2019-20, spent 2021-22 at UC San Diego, and was awarded a scholarship at UO prior to last season. She averaged 10.5 points in 30 games, including 23 starts, as a freshman at Weber State, then averaged 4.0 points, 2.2 rebounds and 1.3 assists at UC San Diego.

At TCU, Hunter will be joined by another newcomer to the Fort Worth, Texas, program in Hailey Van Lith, who is transferring to TCU for her fifth and final season.

Van Lith joined LSU this past season and reached the Elite Eight with the defending national champion before a loss to Caitlin Clark and Iowa. She spent her first three seasons with Louisville, reaching a Final Four and another Elite Eight before deciding to join four-time champion coach Kim Mulkey’s team at LSU. The guard averaged 14.5 points, four rebounds and 2.8 assists per game with the Cardinals and Tigers. She played mostly wing for Louisville before moving to point guard for Mulkey’s team.

Hunter and Van Lit are joining a TCU program that made the AP Top 25 this past season before injuries forced the Horned Frogs to forfeit two games and hold open tryouts to bolster the roster.TCU got off to a school-record 14-0 start, including a victory over BYU in the Big 12 Conference opener, before a six-game losing streak capped by the two forfeits. The Horned Frogs finished 21-12 and 6-12 in the Big 12 under second-year coach Campbell.

The newcomers will get to play with a pair of 20-point scorers in Sedona Prince, formerly at Oregon, and Madison Conner. Prince and Conner were among the players injured when TCU’s 2023-24 season was derailed.

Born in Wenatchee, Washington, Van Lith is the only active Division I player with at least 1,900 points, 500 rebounds and 350 assists.