| Chloe Kitts | |
| Number: | 21 |
| Position: | Forward |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 4 |
| League: | Southeastern Conference |
| Team: | South Carolina Gamecocks |
| Birth Date: | 5 August 2004 |
| Birth Place: | Oviedo, Florida, U.S. |
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| College: | South Carolina (2022–present) |
| Career Start: | 2022 |
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Chloe Kitts (born August 5, 2004) is an American college basketball player for the South Carolina Gamecocks of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
Kitts lived in Puyallup, Washington, and then moved to Oviedo, Florida in the third grade.[1] As a freshman in high school, she played basketball for The Master's Academy in Oviedo, helping her team reach the Class 3A state title game.[2] For her sophomore season, Kitts transferred to DME Academy in Daytona Beach, Florida. As a junior, she averaged 18.7 points and 8.2 rebounds per game, leading the team to its first GEICO Nationals appearance.[3] Kitts intended to transfer to Faith Christian Academy in Orlando, Florida following the season, before bypassing her senior year and enrolling early in college.[4]
She was rated a five-star recruit by ESPN and committed to South Carolina over offers from Louisville, Duke, NC State and Arizona.[5] She was ranked fourth in the nation by Prospects Nation.
On December 18, 2022, Kitts made her debut for South Carolina, recording 10 points and seven rebounds in an 87–23 win over Charleston Southern.[6] She received limited playing time as a freshman, averaging 1.6 points per game.
Kitts entered a starting role in her sophomore season (2023-2024).[7] She averaged 9.0 points on 53% field goal percentage, 5.8 rebounds, and 1.3 assists for the season. Kitts recorded a double-double in seventeen minutes in the title game vs Iowa.
Kitts won a gold medal with the United States at the 2022 FIBA Under-18 Women's Americas Championship in Argentina. She averaged 7.7 points, 5.8 rebounds and two steals per game.[8] Kitts helped the United States win another gold medal at the 2023 FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup in Spain, where she averaged 10.7 points and eight rebounds per game. In the final, she posted 15 points and nine rebounds in a 69–66 win over Spain.[9]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2022–23| style="text-align:left;"| South Carolina| 18 || 0 || 6.9 || 37.5 || 25.0 || 50.0|| 1.6 || 0.7 || 0.2 || 0.1 || 0.4 || 1.6|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2023–24| style="text-align:left;"| South Carolina| 37 || 31|| 18.6 || 54.4|| 50.0 || 68.9 || 5.9 || 1.4 || 0.4 || 0.6 || 1.5 || 9.1|- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career|55||31||14.8||52.5||33.3||67.3||4.5||1.1||0.4||0.4||1.1||6.6|- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[10]