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Chandler Prater

Position:
Guard/Forward
Height:
5-10
Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
Kansas City, Mo.
High School:
North Kansas City HS
Previous School:
Kansas / Oklahoma State

PRONUNCIATION

CAREER HONORS
2023 Winter Academic All-Big 12 • Kansas
2022 Academic All-Big 12 • Kansas
2021 Academic All-Big 12 • Kansas

2024-25 (Graduate)
Prater made her Mississippi State debut on November 7 against Memphis where she returned from an achilles injury that ended her 2023-24 season at Oklahoma State ... She played in 34 games and started in 12 during the season ... Averaged 6.4 points, 1.5 assists and 4.2 rebounds in 22.6 minutes per game ... She scored 10+ points in nine games ... Scored her season-high 14 points in four games throughout the season ... Knocked down a career-high four three-point field goals at Chicago State (Dec. 8) ... Recorded 5+ assists once this season ... Grabbed 5+ rebounds 13 times ... Shot 88.1% from the free-throw line, which was first on the team.

PRIOR TO MISSISSIPPI STATE
2023-24 (Redshirt Senior - Oklahoma State)
Prater played five games before suffering a season-ending injury … Averaged 8.0 points, 6.0 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.4 steals on 42.5 percent from the field (17-40), 20.0 percent from three (1-5) and 83.3 percent from the free throw line (5-6) in 21.0 minutes per game … Totaled 40 points, 30 rebounds, 10 assists, seven steals and three blocks on 17-40 from the field, 1-5 from three and 5-6 from the free throw line in 104 minutes … Scored 10-plus points in three of the five games … Pulled down five-plus rebounds in three of five and 10-plus in one … Posted a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds in 19 minutes against No. 15/12 Ohio State (Nov. 22).
Added two points, five assists, four rebounds and a steal in 13 minutes in her Oklahoma State debut against SIUE (Nov. 6).

2022-23 (Redshirt Junior - Kansas)
Prater played in 35 games with 33 starts … Started 24 of the final 25 games of the season … Led Kansas to a WNIT Title and started all six tournament games … Scored 10 or more points in 14 games and 20 or more in two … Her 20-point efforts came in consecutive games against TCU with 24 points at TCU (March 4) and 21 points in the First Round of the 2023 Big 12 Tournament against TCU (March 9) … Pulled down five or more rebounds in 19 games and 10 or more in six games … Dished out five or more assists in five games … Recorded four double-doubles … Posted her first career double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds in 24 minutes against UTRGV (Nov. 20) … Posted three of more blocks in two games and five or more in one … Swiped three of more steals in nine games …
Named to the 2023 Winter Academic All-Big 12 team.

2021-22 (Redshirt Sophomore - Kansas)
Prater played in 31 games with three starts … Averaged 7.1 points, 4.2 rebounds, 1.4 assists on 44.0 percent from the field (77-175), 23.1 percent from three (9-39) and 81.7 percent from the free throw line (58-71) … Totaled 221 points, 130 rebounds, 43 assists, 26 steals and nine blocks on 77-175 from the field, 9-39 from three and 58-71 from the free throw line in 598 minutes … Scored 10 or more points in 11 games … Pulled down five or more rebounds in 13 games … Dished out five or more assists in one game … Swiped three or more steals in two games … Helped lead Kansas to a No. 8 seed in the Spokane Region of the NCAA Tournament, where she contributed in both games against No. 9 seed Georgia Tech and No. 1 seed Stanford … Also recorded starts against Saint Louis (Nov. 21) and Santa Clara (Dec. 12) … Posted 9.0 points and 4.0 rebounds in her starts … Made her first career start with nine points, four rebounds, three assists, two steals and a block in 22 minutes against SIUE (Nov. 10) … Named to the 2022 Academic All-Big 12 team.

2020-21 (Redshirt Freshman - Kansas)
Prater played in 20 games … Averaged 3.6 points and 2.4 rebounds on 37.7 percent from the field (29-77), 25.0 percent from three (4-16) and 66.7 percent from the free throw line (10-15) in 12.9 minutes per game … Totaled 72 points, 48 rebounds, 16 assists, 15 steals and two blocks on 29-77 from the field, 4-16 from three and 10-15 from the free throw line in 257 minutes … Added six points, two assists, a rebound and a steal in 20 minutes against No. 6/6 Baylor (March 6) … Scored 10 or more points in three games, including consecutive efforts in Big 12 conference play with 10 points against Iowa State (Feb. 17) and 14 points at Texas Tech (Feb. 20) … Pulled down five or more rebounds in one game with five rebounds at Kansas State (Feb. 13) … Posted 12.0 points and 3.0 rebounds on a combined 8-13 from the field for 61.5 percent, 2-3 from three for 66.6 percent and 6-7 from the free-throw line for 85.7 percent in 21.0 minutes per game over a two-game stretch in Big 12 conference play (Feb. 17, Feb. 20) … Added 14 points on 6-8 from the field, 1-1 from three, in addition to two rebounds, two steals and an assist in 24 minutes at No. 21/20 Texas (Jan. 14) … Made her collegiate debut against Northern Colorado (Nov. 25) … Named to the 2021 Academic All-Big 12 team.

2019-20 (Freshman - Kansas)
Prater practiced with the team and elected to redshirt.

HIGH SCHOOL
Prater played for head coach Jeffery Lacy at North Kansas City High School … Helped lead North Kansas City to its first Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) Class 5 State Championship … Honored with the 2019 and 2018 DiRenna Award, which is awarded to the top high school player in Kansas City … Named a 2019, 2018 and 2017 MSHSAA Class 5 First Team All-State selection … 2018 USA Today Tabbed the Greater Kansas City Suburban Conference Red Division Player of the Year and All-District honoree all four years.

PERSONAL
Daughter of Jacinthia Prater and Dushun Piper … One of seven girls, has four younger sisters, Camryn, Calissa, Madison and Reagan, and two older, Maya and Janae … Born on April 25, 2001 … Prater hosts a youth basketball camp in Kansas City.