BATON ROUGE - LSU women's basketball head coach Kim Mulkey announced Monday that junior forward Kate Koval is no longer with the team.

"Kate came to see me on Sunday and told me that after much consideration, she will be leaving the program for personal reasons. We will respect her privacy on her decision, but we had a long talk about it, and it was a hard decision for her. I know it is hard because she loves LSU. Kate is a great person. She has to do what she feels is right for her, and we fully support her in that. We all wish her the best," Mulkey said in a statement.

In her lone season at LSU, Koval averaged 8.3 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. She finished the 2025-2026 season with 43 blocks and 37 steals.