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OU women’s basketball added its first transfer of the 2026 offseason Monday with former Kansas guard Keeley Parks announcing her commitment to the Sooners.

Parks, a Norman native, spent one season with the Jayhawks after arriving as a highly regarded recruit. She is a former four-star prospect and was ranked as the No. 3 shooting guard in the 2025 class and the top player in Oklahoma, according to 247Sports. Parks held offers from 22 elite programs across the country, including OU, but passed up on the offer to stay home and instead took her talents to Lawrence. 

At Norman High School, Parks was a three-year varsity player who averaged 24.6 points, 7.6 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 5.4 steals across 69 games. As a senior, she averaged 25.4 points, 8.6 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 5.1 steals and helped lead the Tigers to the OSSAA Class 6A state tournament semifinals.

Parks appeared in 16 games for Kansas last season, making nine starts, and averaging 5.1 points, 0.9 rebounds and 1.1 assists. Her production declined significantly from her high school numbers in part due to an injury she sustained during the summer prior to her freshman season, along with persistent lower-leg issues during the season that sidelined her for the rest of the season after Jan. 11, per the Lawrence Journal-World's Henry Greenstein.

Parks joins a backcourt that already features several former elite recruits from her class, including rising sophomore guard and national freshman of the year Aaliyah Chavez, the No. 1 overall player in the 2025 class, and rising sophomore guard Keziah Lofton, an Oklahoma native who was ranked No. 34 overall, No. 7 among shooting guards and No. 2 overall in the state.

Her reunion in Norman comes as the Sooners look to replace backcourt production after rising junior guard Zya Vann entered the transfer portal following her two seasons in Norman. Vann started all 34 games of the 2025-26 season and was an integral part of a Sooners team that made a run to the Sweet 16. Over the season, she averaged 10.4 points, 4.2 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 2.1 steals, and was part of a starting five that not only opened every game, but also saw all five players average double figures in scoring.

This story was edited by Joshua McDaniel and Laurie Jones.

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