After three seasons with the Colorado women’s basketball team, Tameiya Sadler is moving on.
The senior guard has elected to put her name in the NCAA transfer portal with the intent of playing her bonus year, granted to all players from the 2020-21 season because of the COVID-19 pandemic, elsewhere.
A 5-foot-8 guard from Vallejo, Calif., Sadler played in 94 games, with 26 starts, during her three seasons with the Buffs. She averaged 5.2 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.5 assists for CU.
This past season, Sadler started the first 10 games and then came off the bench the rest of the year. She posted CU career highs of 5.5 points and 2.0 assists per game, while posting her best field goal percentage (.420) as a Buff.
Sadler helped the Buffs gets to three consecutive NCAA tournaments, including the Sweet 16 the past two years. She played an integral role in the Buffs’ 63-50 upset of Kansas State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on March 24, scoring 10 points, all in the second half.
Sadler played her freshman season, 2020-21, at Washington, posting 10.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game.
Losing Sadler was not unexpected. She went through senior day festivities on March 2 and had been undecided on whether or not to come back.
With Sadler moving on, CU will have just four players back from its 17-player roster of this past season: guards Frida Formann, Kennedy Sanders, Sara-Rose Smith and Kindyll Wetta.
Five players have graduated, while eight players – seven on scholarship and walk-on Shelomi Sanders – have transferred.
Head coach JR Payne has five open scholarship spots to fill.
