Kentucky WBB guard Cassidy Rowe announces she is stepping away from program

Three Kentucky women’s basketball players have elected to enter their names into the transfer portal since the conclusion of the 2024-25 season, but a fourth announced Saturday a different reason for her decision to leave the program.

Junior guard Cassidy Rowe announced on Instagram she will not be playing her senior season of college basketball at Kentucky. The 5-foot-6 native of Virgie, KY does not plan to enter the transfer portal, as she will instead pursue a career in physical therapy through UK’s Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program.

“Wow…I wasn’t expecting this to be a goodbye post,” Rowe wrote. “I wanted nothing more than to play my senior year in a Kentucky uniform, but I know that God has bigger and better plans for me. Sometimes ‘no’ is God’s way of preventing us from greater heartbreak.”

During her three seasons at Kentucky, Rowe appeared in 67 games (including 16 starts in the 2023-24 season) for the Wildcats under two different head coaches. The Shelby Valley product will finish her college career with an average of 1.6 points in 12.6 minutes per game.

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Rowe joins the likes of Clara Silva, Saniah Tyler, and Tanah Becker as players from the 2024-25 roster who have announced their intentions to leave the program. Silva, Tyler, and Becker all plan to transfer and play college basketball elsewhere. Rowe, who committed to UK as a middle schooler under former head coach Matthew Mitchell, and Tyler were the only two remaining holdovers from the Kyra Elzy era.

With those four on the move, along with Georgia Amoore and Dazia Lawrence running out of eligibility, Kenny Brooks will have plenty of roster spots to fill going into his second offseason as head coach.