Texas Tech on Friday announced the addition of Ashley Chevalier, a former national top-100 women's basketball recruit who began her career at Texas.
Chevalier is a 5-foot-7 point guard from Chatsworth (Calif.) Sierra Canyon who was ranked the No. 86 recruit nationally by ESPNW Hoop Gurlz coming out of high school. She played in seven games this past season for the Longhorns before having her name entered into the NCAA transfer portal in early December. She averaged 2.7 points and 2.6 assists.
As a true freshman the year before, Chevalier played in 28 games, averaging 2.9 points and 1.5 assists.
"Ashley is an exciting sign for us and will bring a tenacity to our team both offensively and defensively," Lady Raiders coach Krista Gerlich said. "She is a great on-ball defender that will cause havoc in the backcourt by making the tough plays like taking charges and applying resistance on the ball.
"Ashley has good speed and can get downhill to distribute the basketball. She can shoot the 3-ball and has a high basketball IQ."
Chevalier has three seasons of eligibility left. She's expected to enroll at Tech in the summer.
Vivian Gray was named a Women's Basketball Coaches Association Honorable Mention All-America selection Thursday.
A native of Argyle, Gray closed her Lady Raider career by receiving multiple accolades including First Team All-Big 12 honors, CoSIDA Academic All-America honors and the aforementioned WBCA All-American distinction.
When Gray was named a First Team All-Big 12 selection, she became just the fourth women's basketball player in Big 12 history to be named a four-time All Big-12 First Team selection.
This season, Gray averaged a team-best 20.2 points and 5.3 rebounds. The combo-guard also contributed 51 assists, 45 steals and 25 blocks. Gray's 45 steals and 25 blocks were the most by a Lady Raider this season.
Other season highlights included Gray reaching both the 2,000-point mark for her D-I career and the 2,500-point mark for her entire career. She began her basketball career at the D-II level playing for Fort Lewis College.
Gray, the 28th All-America selection in Lady Raider history, sets her sights on the WNBA Draft which is scheduled for April 11 on ESPN.
Texas Tech will host its first outdoor meet of the season, the Masked Rider Open, on Friday and Saturday at the Fuller Track Complex.
Field events begin Friday with the discus at 1 p.m. and the shot put at 4 p.m.
All remaining field events and running events are Saturday. The running events schedule begins with the 10,000 meters at 8 a.m., and the remaining running events are scheduled from 3 p.m. to 7:25 p.m. Field-event start times are at 1 p.m. and 3 p.
The Tech women are ranked No. 2 and the Tech men No. 5 in this week's performance-based ratings by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
Tech came out of last week's trip to the Texas Relays with four men ranked first or second in NCAA Division I in their events: Courtney Lindsey in the 200 meters (20.20), Malik Metivier in the 400-meter hurdles (49.15), Moad Zahafi in the 800 (1:46.02) and Chris Welch in the triple jump (53 feet, 3 3/4 inches).
The Red Raiders' 400-meter relay time at the Texas Relays ranks fourth in Division I. Terrence Jones, Jacolby Shelton, Ashton O'Conner and Lindsey ran 39.12.
No. 27 Texas Tech will try to gain ground in the Big 12 standings when the Red Raiders host No. 11 Oklahoma State and No. 3 Oklahoma this weekend at the McLeod Tennis Center.
Tech (13-7, 3-3) plays Oklahoma State (12-3, 3-1) at 5 p.m. Friday and Oklahoma (19-1, 4-0) at noon Sunday.
Over three days last weekend, the Red Raiders won Big 12 matches against Iowa State and West Virginia and non-conference duels with the University of Denver and UT-Rio Grande Valley.
Oklahoma is on an eight-match win streak, during which the Sooners have beaten No. 21 Southern California, No. 18 Central Florida, No. 22 Kansas, No. 23 Baylor and No. 4 Texas, the latter two last weekend at home.
Oklahoma State also has wins over Southern Cal, Kansas and Baylor, as well as over No. 30 Arizona State and No. 26 Wake Forest.
Texas Tech opens Big 12 play with road matches at 5:30 p.m. Friday against No. 3 TCU in Fort Worth and at noon Sunday against No. 11 Texas in Austin.
The Red Raiders (12-7) are coming off a 4-3 loss last Friday at No. 17 Middle Tennessee State.
TCU (17-3) has wins against No. 1 Florida, No. 2 Ohio State, No. 5 Tennessee, No. 8 Virginia, as well as against Texas in a non-conference match between Big 12 opponents.
Texas (11-7) has won four of its past five matches, the wins coming over No. 24 Texas A&M, No. 13 Southern California, No. 20 Pepperdine and Oklahoma. The latter was a non-conference match against a Big 12 opponent.
Texas Tech will try to bounce back from a lopsided three-game series sweep at No. 7 Oklahoma State when the Red Raiders host Kansas in Big 12 games at 5 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday at Rocky Johnson Field.
Tech (17-15, 0-3) had won nine games in a row before Oklahoma State beat the Red Raiders 7-0, 9-1 and 16-2.
Tech's top hitters include left fielder Payton Jackson (.355, four home runs, 15 runs batted in), first baseman Ellie Bailey (.322-2-18), right fielder Carson Armijo (.310-3-14), second baseman Arriana Villa (.305-5-20) and third baseman Abbie Orrick (.250-4-13).
Kendall Fritz (11-6, 2.51 earned-run average) leads Tech in virtually every pitching category.
Kansas (11-18, 0-3) was swept by Texas in its conference-opening series last weekend, then beat Missouri 11-7 on Wednesday.