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Cydnee Bryant will play both basketball and volleyball at Kansas.

Kansas has signed a two-sport athlete who has the chance to make an impact for multiple programs beginning in 2026.

Cydnee Bryant, who stands 6-foot-4 and attends Centennial High School in Corona, California, will play both women’s basketball and volleyball for the Jayhawks.

She is a consensus four-star basketball prospect and joins previous signees Mollie Ernstes (North Vernon, Indiana) and Brooklynn Renn (Sellersburg, Indiana) in Brandon Schneider’s class. Bryant averaged 21.7 points and 16.8 rebounds at Centennial last season.

“Cydnee will bring immediate size and physicality to our front line,” Schneider said in a press release. “She provides a paint presence on both ends of the floor but has the skills to step away and stretch the defense. Cydnee is a great rebounder, she’s very mobile in transition and can really finish through contact around the rim. With us graduating two post players, Cydnee is a critical addition to our program.”

Indeed, Nadira Eltayeb and Lilly Meister will exhaust their eligibility following the 2025-26 season, and Bryant will slide in along with the young remaining frontcourt that is expected to include Tatyonna Brown, Jaliya Davis and Regan Williams.

Brandon Clay, 247Sports’ director of scouting, wrote in May that Bryant “has arguably as much long term upside as any frontcourt prospect in the class nationally.”

In volleyball, meanwhile, Bryant plays as a middle blocker, recording 81 blocks and 47 service aces over the course of the fall season. Bryant joins fellow middle Jaeli Rutledge (Webb City, Utah) in Matt Ulmer’s 2026 class, which also includes pin hitters Tessa Dodd (Laramie, Wyoming), Avery Poulton (Bountiful, Utah), Ryan Sadler (Atlanta) and Taylor Stanley (Overland Park). KU does not have any senior middle blockers on the roster, but Bryant and Rutledge will help bolster KU’s depth at the position in the seasons to come.

“Cydnee is an elite athlete and an extremely determined competitor,” Ulmer said in the release. “She has big goals and the right work ethic to achieve them. She is going to make a big impact in both locker rooms and in the athletic department with her personality and ability to bring people together.”

Bryant is the younger sister of Carter Bryant, a former Arizona basketball player who was a first-round pick of the San Antonio Spurs in the 2025 NBA Draft.