Getting back to the Eastern U.S. was important to Arizona guard Kamryn Kitchen. A year spent out West as a Wildcat showed her that. She has accomplished her goal by committing to Coastal Carolina.
Since Arizona women’s basketball wrapped up its season at the Big 12 Tournament, Kitchen has posted a lot of pictures of herself supporting Virginia softball back in Charlottesville. Her move to Conway, SC puts her within six hours of Charlottesville, where she still has ties from her first season at Virginia.
She had an up and down season in her only year in Tucson. She appeared in 22 games with four starts and averaged 17.7 minutes per game. She completely disappeared from the rotation after the Feb. 21 game against Baylor.
Kitchen’s best games came against Northern Colorado, Bellarmine, Kansas, and Arizona State in Tempe. She had a run of games from Jan. 20 at Kansas to Feb. 14 against ASU in Tucson when she played 24 or more minutes. After going 0-for-5 in the final game against the Sun Devils, she played just five minutes against Baylor and didn’t appear again for the rest of the season.
Kitchen wound up her single season as a Wildcat with 4.3 ppg on 42 percent shooting including 29.8 percent shooting from 3. She averaged 1.7 rebounds, 1.2 assists against 1.3 turnovers, 0.7 steals, and 1.5 personal fouls per game.
Kitchen was one of six players to enter the portal out of Arizona. The Wildcats also had three players exhaust their eligibility and one medically retire. With three returners and four or five incoming freshmen, that gave head coach Becky Burke a roster of seven or eight players to work with. That meant she could add another seven to eight from the portal. The first is in the fold after 2025 McDonald’s All-American Aliyahna ‘Puff’ Morris announced her commitment on Friday.
