ATHENS, Ga. — Nyah Leveretter, a former four-star, top-100 prospect who spent the past four seasons at Kentucky, has signed with the Georgia women’s basketball team, head coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson announced Friday.
The 6-foot-2 forward from Blythewood, S.C., is the SEC-best fifth top-100 prospect to ink with the Lady Bulldogs in the 2024 class. She will have two years of eligibility remaining at Georgia.
Leveretter is an experienced SEC player, who saw action in 65 games with 32 starts during her time with the Wildcats. As a shot blocker and a rebounder, she averaged close to four rebounds and totaled 15 blocks during her junior campaign, before suffering a season-ending injury.
She also boasts an impressive resume off the court. A member of the SEC Leadership Council, Leveretter was the UK SAAC Vice President, a three-time selection to the SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll and a member of the NCAA DI Student-Athlete Engagement Group.
Leveretter was a highly-recruited prospect coming out of high school. Named an all-state performer by the South Carolina Basketball Coaches Association, she put together a decorated prep career at Westwood High School. She was named a McDonald’s All-America nominee after leading Westwood to back-to-back Final Four seasons. Both ESPN.com and ProspectsNation.com ranked her as a four-star prospect, while ESPN named her the 20th best forward in the class.
Georgia has signed five players in the 2024 class, including incoming freshmen Indya and Summer Davis, Mia Woolfolk and Trinity Turner. The Lady Bulldogs are the only program in the SEC to have four or more signees ranked in the ESPN top-100.
