Photo: University of Iowa Athletic Department
(Iowa City, IA) -- Lucy Olsen has officially signed to play basketball for the University of Iowa. Olsen competed the previous three seasons at Villanova University. She was rated the fourth best player in the transfer portal by ESPN.com.
Olsen is a native of Collegeville, Pennsylvania. She was third in the country in scoring (23.3 ppg) last season behind Caitlin Clark and USC’s JuJu Watkins. She scored over 20 points in 25 games this season, including surpassing 30 points in 10 of those games, with a career-high of 40 points against Temple. Additionally, she averaged 4.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game.
Olsen became the 31st player in Wildcat program history to score 1,000+ career points in her junior campaign.
“We are looking forward to welcoming Lucy into our program this summer. She is a tremendous student-athlete with an excellent resume. Her skill set and personality was exactly what we were trying to get out of the transfer portal. It’s an exciting time to be an Iowa Hawkeye!” Said Coach Lisa Bluder.