Dominika Paurová Sustains Lower-Leg Injury
LEXINGTON, Ky. – University of Kentucky women’s basketball redshirt sophomore guard Dominika Paurová tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and is out indefinitely.
Paurová, a Czech Republic native, enters her second year at Kentucky. She played her freshman season at Oregon State in 2023-24, where she averaged 5.5 points per game, 2.1 rebounds per game and 1.4 assists per game.
The Wildcats will tip off their 52nd season of varsity status on Nov. 3, with Kentucky playing host to in-state foe Morehead State inside Historic Memorial Coliseum. Fewer than 125 reserved season tickets remain, while single-game tickets went on sale today.
In 2025-26, UK returns 46.7 percent of its scoring and 70.9 percent of its rebounding in just the frontcourt alone.
The Triplets – Clara Strack, Teonni Key and Amelia Hassett – also were a force to be reckoned with on defense, helping the team finish first in the nation in blocks last season (7.0). That trio, who are all returning as upperclassmen, also ranked second in the Southeastern Conference and ninth in the nation in defensive rebounding last season (29.5). UK also ended the regular season as the only team in Division I to have three players averaging at least 8.0 rebounds per game (Strack – 9.7, Key – 8.1, Hassett – 8.0).
UK head coach Kenny Brooks also bolstered the roster with three all-conference guards in Tonie Morgan, Asia Boone and Josie Gilvin and a McDonald’s All-American wing in Kaelyn Carroll.
Excitement abounds for Jordan Obi’s return, too, who sat out last season with a lower-leg injury.
Obi is a 1,000-point scorer in four seasons at Penn. Her last season playing in 2023-24, the All-Ivy League First Teamer averaged 14.7 ppg, a team-high 7.7 rpg, 2.3 apg and 1.4 bpg. She shot 43.3% from the field, 38.6% from the arc (34-88) and 82.7% from the line (81-98). She scored in double digits in 22 of her 28 games, earning six double-doubles.
Dominika Paurová
6-1 | Guard | Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic | DME Academy
Dominika Paurová, a Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic, native, played one season at Oregon State in 2023-24, before rupturing her Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) prior to arriving on campus at Kentucky in Summer 2024.
She played in all 35 games as a freshman at Oregon State, including all four games of the Beavers’ NCAA Tournament Elite Eight run in 2024.
During that season, she averaged 5.5 points per game, 2.1 rebounds per game and 1.4 assists per game in 16.4 minutes per game. She shot 48.0 percent from the field and 37.2 percent from the arc, knocking down 16 triples in 2023-24.
In her college debut, she recorded 13 points, five rebounds, three steals, an assist and a block to send Oregon State past Arkansas Pine Bluff on Nov. 6. She would go on to score in double digits in seven games last season, including a career-high 17 points in the NCAA Tournament First Round against Eastern Michigan. She hit three 3-pointers in that game.
Paurová also played on the Czech Republic U14, U15, U18, U19 and U20 teams from 2018-23. She also made the Czech Senior National team for FIBA Women’s Eurobasket qualifying.
She helped the U20 team reach the FIBA European Championships Division A title game in 2022. On that team, she put up 9.9 points per game and 6.3 rebounds per game, as one of the youngest players in the entire field. On the U18 team, she was considered a most valuable player candidate at the FIBA European Championship in 2022, averaging 14.7 points per game and 9.3 rebounds per game at the tournament.
As a senior in high school, Paurová helped DME Academy to the Sunshine Independent Athletic Association State Championship. She averaged 11.5 points per game, 5.0 rebounds per game and 2.2 steals per game at DME in 2022-23.
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