LADY VOLS ROSTER 2025-6

[gymmlover]

Mods can you pin and I will keep it up to date with any changes. Any errors, let me know.

2025-26 Lady Vols Basketball Roster
As of April 24, 11 a.m. ET

Number	Player	Height	Class	YeaPER GAMEr with Lady Vols
				PER GAME 2024-5
2	Ruby Whitehorn	6-0	Sr.	11.7 points, 4.0 rebounds, 2.0 steals
4	Kaniya Boyd	5-9	So.	4.0 points, 1.5 rebounds, 1.27 steals
5	Kaiya Wynn	6-0	Rs-Sr.	injury
11	Zee Spearman	6-4	Sr.	11.7 points, 6.0 rebounds, .79 assists
33	Alyssa Latham	6-2	Jr.	3.9 points, 3.7 rebounds, .9 steals
55	Talaysia Cooper	6-0	Rs-Jr.	16.6 points, 5.6 rebounds, 3.17 assists, 3.088 steals
N/a	Janiah Barker	6-4	Sr.	7.4 points, 6.0 rebounds, and 1.4 assists.
N/a	Nya Robertson	5-7	Sr.	18.5 points, 3.0 rebounds, and 1.7 assists.
N/a	Jersey Wolfenbarger	6-5	Sr.	7.6 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.1 assists.
N/a	Mia Pauldo	5-6	Fr.	HS--19.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 3.3 steals
N/a	Deniya Prawl	6-1	Fr.	Canada U17 WC team--11.9 points, 7.6 rebounds, 3.7 assists, 1.7 Blocks
N/a	Jaida Civil	6-0	Fr.	HS-- 18.2 points, 7.5 rebounds, 5.1 assists, 3.3 steals
N/a	Lauren Hurst	6-3	Fr.	HS--17.4 points, 6.2 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 2.0 steals
N/a	Mya Pauldo	5-6	Fr.	HS--16.5 points, 3.807 rebounds, 4.69 assists, 2.38 steals

 

[chuckiepoo]

Mods can you pin and I will keep it up to date with any changes. I hope to add stats from last year soon.

2025-26 Lady Vols Basketball Roster
As of April 24, 11 a.m. ET

Number	Player	Height	Class	Year with Lady Vols
2	Ruby Whitehorn	6-foot	Sr.	2nd
4	Kaniya Boyd	5-foot-9	So.	3rd
5	Kaiya Wynn	6-foot	Rs-Sr.	5th
11	Zee Spearman	6-foot-4	Sr.	2nd
33	Alyssa Latham	6-foot-2	Jr.	2nd
55	Talaysia Cooper	6-foot	Rs-Jr.	3rd
N/a	Janiah Barker	6-foot-4	Sr.	1st (TAMU, UCLA)
N/a	Nya Robertson	5-foot-7	Sr.	1st (GW, SMU)
N/a	Jersey Wolfenbarger	6-foot-5	Sr.	1st (Arkansas, LSU)
N/a	Mia Pauldo	5-foot-5	Fr.	1st
N/a	Deniya Prawl	6-foot-1	Fr.	1st
N/a	Jaida Civil	6-foot	Fr.	1st
N/a	Lauren Hurst	6-foot-2	Fr.	1st
N/a	Mya Pauldo	5-foot-5	Fr.	1st

I noticed in the source article that the third column could be reduced if the height were just listed as 6-2. Why spell out foot?

 

[gymmlover]

I noticed in the source article that the third column could be reduced it the height were just listed as 6-2. Why spell out foot?

Fixed

 

[goldvol]

YeaPER GAMEr

 

[LV renaissance]

Speaking of the roster, the LVs now have a problem that the elite schools have: How to manage a group that is so talented without running off players after next season due to lack of playing time. It does help considerably that we will likely play 10 players throughout the season. However, who gets left off the 10-player rotation, which is difficult to speculate. When you really try to do this, you start pleading with CKC to play more than 10. I like them all, so I am not wishing this on anyone but my best guess at this too early spot would be Wynn (lightning strike me down), Hurst, Mya (strike me again. I been bragging about her all season), and Prawl (if she is still injured) or Robertson (though I could imagine her really surprising some of her skeptics). I can't believe how difficult this is, as we just don't have any obvious benchwarmers this year. Great problem to have, horrible decision to make.

 

[Rons1989]

Speaking of the roster, the LVs now have a problem that the elite schools have: How to manage a group that is so talented without running off players after next season due to lack of playing time. It does help considerably that we will likely play 10 players throughout the season. However, who gets left off the 10-player rotation, which is difficult to speculate. When you really try to do this, you start pleading with CKC to play more than 10. I like them all, so I am not wishing this on anyone but my best guess at this too early spot would be Wynn (lightning strike me down), Hurst, Mya (strike me again. I been bragging about her all season), and Prawl (if she is still injured) or Robertson (though I could imagine her really surprising some of her skeptics). I can't believe how difficult this is, as we just don't have any obvious benchwarmers this year. Great problem to have, horrible decision to make.

Agreed....except Robertson wont be the one sitting she is a straight dawg to be honest she maybe starting but i wouldnt mind her wit that bench group either......but once the roster is settled it will be fun to group these players up as far lineups

 

[RAVOL]

Speaking of the roster, the LVs now have a problem that the elite schools have: How to manage a group that is so talented without running off players after next season due to lack of playing time. It does help considerably that we will likely play 10 players throughout the season. However, who gets left off the 10-player rotation, which is difficult to speculate. When you really try to do this, you start pleading with CKC to play more than 10. I like them all, so I am not wishing this on anyone but my best guess at this too early spot would be Wynn (lightning strike me down), Hurst, Mya (strike me again. I been bragging about her all season), and Prawl (if she is still injured) or Robertson (though I could imagine her really surprising some of her skeptics). I can't believe how difficult this is, as we just don't have any obvious benchwarmers this year. Great problem to have, horrible decision to make.

There are only so many minutes once it get real. That is why practice and scrimmages will be fun to watch. In CHRIST Alone

 

[AllVols3]

There are only so many minutes once it get real. That is why practice and scrimmages will be fun to watch. In CHRIST Alone

You lose 1 twin , you'll lose them both

 

[Rickster]

Speaking of the roster, the LVs now have a problem that the elite schools have: How to manage a group that is so talented without running off players after next season due to lack of playing time. It does help considerably that we will likely play 10 players throughout the season. However, who gets left off the 10-player rotation, which is difficult to speculate. When you really try to do this, you start pleading with CKC to play more than 10. I like them all, so I am not wishing this on anyone but my best guess at this too early spot would be Wynn (lightning strike me down), Hurst, Mya (strike me again. I been bragging about her all season), and Prawl (if she is still injured) or Robertson (though I could imagine her really surprising some of her skeptics). I can't believe how difficult this is, as we just don't have any obvious benchwarmers this year. Great problem to have, horrible decision to make.

Unfortunately, there is always attrition and what you end up with is less than you started with. The deepest teams normally survive attrition so Kim is positioning her team for next March. I think we can get everyone some minutes. How many will likely depend on how big the leads are and how many players have injuries over the course of the season. A lot of variables to deal with.

 

[volsagain]

Speaking of the roster, the LVs now have a problem that the elite schools have: How to manage a group that is so talented without running off players after next season due to lack of playing time. It does help considerably that we will likely play 10 players throughout the season. However, who gets left off the 10-player rotation, which is difficult to speculate. When you really try to do this, you start pleading with CKC to play more than 10. I like them all, so I am not wishing this on anyone but my best guess at this too early spot would be Wynn (lightning strike me down), Hurst, Mya (strike me again. I been bragging about her all season), and Prawl (if she is still injured) or Robertson (though I could imagine her really surprising some of her skeptics). I can't believe how difficult this is, as we just don't have any obvious benchwarmers this year. Great problem to have, horrible decision to make.

You have 6 seniors that will be leaving at the end of the year. So 6 underclassmen will move up in rotation as long as there better than the incoming freshmen and portal adds. Just the way it has to work. If you're not as good as the ones needed to win it doesn't matter if they move on happy or not.

 

[GameTime]

Coach Kim says how they practice determines who plays.....The practice scrimmages will probably be worth televising...Each player will be trying to outdo the next at their flexible positions....Whichever players can make a high percentage of 3 balls, will go a long ways to determine who sees the floor first...

Kim now has a hand full of aces at each position....She is going to go all in with her basketball philosophy and terrorize women's college basketball....

 

[bicenTENNial]

Mods can you pin and I will keep it up to date with any changes. Any errors, let me know.

2025-26 Lady Vols Basketball Roster
As of April 24, 11 a.m. ET

Number	Player	Height	Class	YeaPER GAMEr with Lady Vols
				PER GAME 2024-5
2	Ruby Whitehorn	6-0	Sr.	11.7 points, 4.0 rebounds, 2.0 steals
4	Kaniya Boyd	5-9	So.	4.0 points, 1.5 rebounds, 1.27 steals
5	Kaiya Wynn	6-0	Rs-Sr.	injury
11	Zee Spearman	6-4	Sr.	11.7 points, 6.0 rebounds, .79 assists
33	Alyssa Latham	6-2	Jr.	3.9 points, 3.7 rebounds, .9 steals
55	Talaysia Cooper	6-0	Rs-Jr.	16.6 points, 5.6 rebounds, 3.17 assists, 3.088 steals
N/a	Janiah Barker	6-4	Sr.	7.4 points, 6.0 rebounds, and 1.4 assists.
N/a	Nya Robertson	5-7	Sr.	18.5 points, 3.0 rebounds, and 1.7 assists.
N/a	Jersey Wolfenbarger	6-5	Sr.	7.6 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.1 assists.
N/a	Mia Pauldo	5-6	Fr.	HS--19.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 3.3 steals
N/a	Deniya Prawl	6-1	Fr.	Canada U17 WC team--11.9 points, 7.6 rebounds, 3.7 assists, 1.7 Blocks
N/a	Jaida Civil	6-0	Fr.	HS-- 18.2 points, 7.5 rebounds, 5.1 assists, 3.3 steals
N/a	Lauren Hurst	6-3	Fr.	HS--17.4 points, 6.2 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 2.0 steals
N/a	Mya Pauldo	5-6	Fr.	HS--16.5 points, 3.807 rebounds, 4.69 assists, 2.38 steals

I just can't believe it's only taken this long to get the Lady Vols to this good of a roster with a coach that has proven she's a winner in her first year here!!! This is nuts... It's what we've all wanted so long!!!

 

[creekdipper]

You have 6 seniors that will be leaving at the end of the year. So 6 underclassmen will move up in rotation as long as there better than the incoming freshmen and portal adds. Just the way it has to work. If you're not as good as the ones needed to win it doesn't matter if they move on happy or not.

After all, it is just a business for players and coaches alike.

Today's sports employees bleed green. Which is what the fans want. Win at all costs (literally).

 

[lvocd]

With six highly experienced, athletic seniors on the roster, along with a RS-junior superstar and another VERY good junior, this pretty much has to be THE watershed moment for Kim's grand experiment within P4 basketball, doesn't it?

Along with the outstanding freshmen, unless there are multiple significant injury losses to consider, it has pretty much GOT to be a put-up-or-shut-up year, IMO.

This team can't eff around in making their statement, either. They need, from Week One on, to be the ones making everyone ELSE "find out."

But seriously, I really do think this coming season could, and SHOULD, be Tennessee's best chance in many years to at LEAST reach the Elite 8 round, and maybe even Final Four. Obviously a lot of luck comes into play in post season, and you never know what could happen on any given Tourney day, but neither player inexperience nor lack of high-level talent should be in the conversation for this team -- ever. Even with so many freshmen. They're supposed to be a phenomenal class. Well, let's see 'em BE phenoms. Get to work, freshmen. It starts YESTERDAY.

So I'm thinking if this team stays relatively healthy without any major losses (a Cooper-level impact player), then we should see a rise in program level this coming season. We'll have the players, we'll have the staff, we'll have the university/AD support as well as the fan support. I see no reason this can't be the year Tennessee regains some ground in the SEC and the nation.

I'm all-in with Kim, her hard-working and talented assistants, and all their support staff as I know they are busting their butts every.single.day. to bring the very best to Tennessee.

I believe this coming season will be fun! Yes, sometimes frustrating, too. If ANYone thinks ANY team is gonna blow through the sked unscathed, they need to bring it down a notch or two. We won't go unbeaten, but we also won't be anybody's "look-past" game.

And for the record, I hope to God we play Vanderbilt twice again. That we lost to them twice in one season is, in all seriousness, the only major blight on Kim Stephens Caldwell's first season as the head coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols.

 

[Rons1989]

Man Jewel and Tess Darby would be in heaven if they had this roster next year......we missing a sniper like those 2

 

[lvocd]

Man Jewel and Tess Darby would be in heaven if they had this roster next year......we missing a sniper like those 2

Agreed. They both would have been greatly helped by some of the recent adds.

But try to have faith that we likely already have some snipers-in-wait. Kim has been supremely confident in interviews, which leads me to believe she is confident she's got some shooters already.

Can't wait to see the squad our energetic, excited, confident staff rolls out this fall. I suspect they'll be terrific. Sure, it'll take a while for so many new additions (experienced AND brand-new players alike) to gel completely, but I suspect that even the ramping-up stages are going to be fun for us fans to watch. Patience, as always, will be necessary, but I believe the end product will be something special. (Again, this is IF there are no devastating injury losses.)

 

[lvocd]

P.S. I keep repeating the mantra of "IF there are no devastating injury losses" in my predictions because, IMO, devastating injury/illness losses played a significant role in Kellie Harper's, and even PAT SUMMITT'S, Tennessee career. So I am super-aware of how quickly things can change for a team if a key player goes down.

For Harper, if Tamari Key had come into her senior season as she'd finished her junior season, she might actually still be the coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols. I suspect the majority of people haven't fully considered how NOT having the player who very well could have been THE most dominating lane protector in the country ... one that you and your staff had planned around all off-season because having that dominating force was EVERYTHING ... only to SUDDENLY, and shockingly terrifyingly, find out that that player in your care COULD HAVE DIED from a hidden critical illness ... and then you have to totally shift gears and re-plan EVERYTHING because that Key player was not going to be there AT ALL...

Yeah.

A key injury or two can change everything. Longtime Tennessee Lady Vol fans know this better than anyone else.

 

[chuckiepoo]

Agreed. They both would have been greatly helped by some of the recent adds.

But try to have faith that we likely already have some snipers-in-wait. Kim has been supremely confident in interviews, which leads me to believe she is confident she's got some shooters already.

Can't wait to see the squad our energetic, excited, confident staff rolls out this fall. I suspect they'll be terrific. Sure, it'll take a while for so many new additions (experienced AND brand-new players alike) to gel completely, but I suspect that even the ramping-up stages are going to be fun for us fans to watch. Patience, as always, will be necessary, but I believe the end product will be something special. (Again, this is IF there are no devastating injury losses.)

We’re getting close to a roster composition that can absorb an injury or two and still compete.

 

[chuckiepoo]

P.S. I keep repeating the mantra of "IF there are no devastating injury losses" in my predictions because, IMO, devastating injury/illness losses played a significant role in Kellie Harper's, and even PAT SUMMITT'S, Tennessee career. So I am super-aware of how quickly things can change for a team if a key player goes down.

For Harper, if Tamari Key had come into her senior season as she'd finished her junior season, she might actually still be the coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols. I suspect the majority of people haven't fully considered how NOT having the player who very well could have been THE most dominating lane protector in the country ... one that you and your staff had planned around all off-season because having that dominating force was EVERYTHING ... only to SUDDENLY, and shockingly terrifyingly, find out that that player in your care COULD HAVE DIED from a hidden critical illness ... and then you have to totally shift gears and re-plan EVERYTHING because that Key player was not going to be there AT ALL...

Yeah.

A key injury or two can change everything. Longtime Tennessee Lady Vol fans know this better than anyone else.

 

[lvocd]

We’re getting close to a roster composition that can absorb an injury or two and still compete.

Agreed! There is one, though, who still remains integral to our success. If that player matures emotionally in this offseason AND continues to work on her ability to focus, Tennessee WILL reach at least the Elite 8.

 

[lvocd]

I love y'all who are mature enough to not need/demand everything be explicitly explained to be understood. I appreciate others who, like me, value the gift of discretion, as I am so darn tired of everyone thinking everything critical that pops into their heads needs to be aired publicly. Whatever happened to "if you don't have anything good to say, then say nothing at all"?

 

[chuckiepoo]

"if you don't have snything good to say, then say nothing at all"?

A lesson I need to revisit with increasing frequency.

 

[Dadof2Vols]

With six highly experienced, athletic seniors on the roster, along with a RS-junior superstar and another VERY good junior, this pretty much has to be THE watershed moment for Kim's grand experiment within P4 basketball, doesn't it?

Along with the outstanding freshmen, unless there are multiple significant injury losses to consider, it has pretty much GOT to be a put-up-or-shut-up year, IMO.

This team can't eff around in making their statement, either. They need, from Week One on, to be the ones making everyone ELSE "find out."

But seriously, I really do think this coming season could, and SHOULD, be Tennessee's best chance in many years to at LEAST reach the Elite 8 round, and maybe even Final Four. Obviously a lot of luck comes into play in post season, and you never know what could happen on any given Tourney day, but neither player inexperience nor lack of high-level talent should be in the conversation for this team -- ever. Even with so many freshmen. They're supposed to be a phenomenal class. Well, let's see 'em BE phenoms. Get to work, freshmen. It starts YESTERDAY.

So I'm thinking if this team stays relatively healthy without any major losses (a Cooper-level impact player), then we should see a rise in program level this coming season. We'll have the players, we'll have the staff, we'll have the university/AD support as well as the fan support. I see no reason this can't be the year Tennessee regains some ground in the SEC and the nation.

I'm all-in with Kim, her hard-working and talented assistants, and all their support staff as I know they are busting their butts every.single.day. to bring the very best to Tennessee.

I believe this coming season will be fun! Yes, sometimes frustrating, too. If ANYone thinks ANY team is gonna blow through the sked unscathed, they need to bring it down a notch or two. We won't go unbeaten, but we also won't be anybody's "look-past" game.

And for the record, I hope to God we play Vanderbilt twice again. That we lost to them twice in one season is, in all seriousness, the only major blight on Kim Stephens Caldwell's first season as the head coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols.

I would not say a “put-up-or-shut-up year” in year 2 of Coach Kim’s tenure with 1/3 of the team(5) being freshman who have to learn her system but we should be far ahead of the last decade.

 

[PRG]

Speaking of the roster, the LVs now have a problem that the elite schools have: How to manage a group that is so talented without running off players after next season due to lack of playing time. It does help considerably that we will likely play 10 players throughout the season. However, who gets left off the 10-player rotation, which is difficult to speculate. When you really try to do this, you start pleading with CKC to play more than 10. I like them all, so I am not wishing this on anyone but my best guess at this too early spot would be Wynn (lightning strike me down), Hurst, Mya (strike me again. I been bragging about her all season), and Prawl (if she is still injured) or Robertson (though I could imagine her really surprising some of her skeptics). I can't believe how difficult this is, as we just don't have any obvious benchwarmers this year. Great problem to have, horrible decision to make.

Agree mostly with substitutions!?? But there will be sprained ankles, jammed fingers, concussions protocol, muscle akes ! Hopefully nothing serious…. Wynn is certainly the first consideration, Achilles is not an easy thing to get over! Hurst , I don’t think can play volleyball this year ? But bottom line is only 4 extra players to mix with two teams that only gonna play 2 minutes at a time ….. that’s five line changes every quarter! Gonna be fun to watch ! And this problem will allow for missing a player or two ? Hopefully nothing major happens?

 

[stllvf]

to follow on to the above recommendations = as a regular I remember DARTH and his negative focus toward the LVs, coach, players, team and recruits. That person was the antithesis of the desired standard. Research on social media has found that negative comments are far more prevalent than positive.

and by the way I somehow miss that boarder as I wonder how that person would respond today!