After a near two-week drought, Mizzou Women’s Basketball coach Kellie Harper rewarded everyone’s patience with yet another commitment. This time it is former Pepperdine guard Chloe Sotell, who officially committed Monday on her Instagram.

Sotell is a rising sophomore and joins the Tigers after an extremely productive freshman year out west, starting 26 games while averaging 11.1 points and 3.1 assists on splits of 35.3/32.5/80. With splits like those, it was no surprise that Sotell was named as a member of the WCC All-Freshman Team.

She had several high-scoring outbursts, including 20-plus points against New Mexico (24), Loyola Marymount (22) and San Diego (20). The first two came courtesy of the long ball, finishing with 6 threes in each game. That outing against San Diego was one with a healthy combination of scoring at all three levels.

She routinely plays 30-plus minutes a night, showing no signs of tiring. While Sotell likely won’t be expected to play that much at Mizzou, that sort of motor can be crucial when looking at the intangibles of someone’s work effort.

Her size and speed as a 6-foot guard served her well on the defensive end, finishing with 35 steals and 12 blocks on the season. Some of those highlights can be found here:

The Stamford, CT native is no stranger to greatness, winning a pair of national championships off the wagon known as Montverde Academy where she played alongside multiple ESPNW Top 100 players. She has basketball in her blood as her father, Chris, played college basketball. Plus her brother, Lukas, spent two years at Maryland before entering the transfer portal.

Sotell has said she’s a “big fan of the beach”, which makes the move to Mizzou a little bit puzzling (hope she can grow to love the Ozarks).

This brings Harper’s current roster up to nine guards, two forwards and a center in a strange misbalance of construction. As of right now, you can expect the Tigers to play a lot of “small ball,” with big guards like Sotell or Grace Slaughter sliding to the four. But, the talent on this team is undeniable.

There are still three more spots on the team (hopefully one of those can be used to find a backup center). As a whole, it seems that Harper has a vision for the roster; and that vision is coming together swimmingly.

Updated scholarship count for Mizzou WBB.