Media Day with the Lady Vols basketball team means a chance to ask players several get-to-know-you questions and at least one about hoops. This 2024-25 series will start with Kaiya Wynn.
Wynn, a 6-0 senior guard from Nashville, will miss the season after tearing her right Achilles in preseason practice. A state champion sprinter in high school, Wynn was expected to excel in Coach Kim Caldwell’s high-octane system. Instead, Wynn will seek a medical redshirt from the NCAA to play for Tennessee in the 2025-26 season.
“We are in really good shape and have a lot of people who can do a lot of different things versatility-wise,” Wynn said at media day when asked about the new-look Lady Vols. “I think all 15 of us really love the game of basketball, so it makes the hard things we go through easier.”
Wynn is majoring in kinesiology, intends to become a doctor and remains the consummate teammate. Despite not being able to play, Wynn is always smiling on the bench and encouraging the team. When the news was announced in October, THIS was Wynn’s reaction.
“I hope you’ll join me in getting behind the 2024-25 Lady Vols, because they’ve all been working so hard and are excited to play in front of our amazing fans,” Wynn said. “I’m going to give my all supporting this team while I am recovering and rehabbing, and I hope I can count on each of you to do the same. Thanks always for your love and support.”
Wynn fielded questions about speak all world languages or read people’s minds; YouTube or TikTok famous; live 500 years as one person or 100 years five times as different people; explore depths of ocean or deep into space; fly or breathe underwater; swim in ocean 15 minutes knowing a shark is close or spend the night in a haunted house; walk across graveyard late at night, which teammate for protection; remember dreams; best live concert attended; what always makes her laugh; what makes her cry; selflessness to always put team first despite her setback; and something Coach Kim Caldwell says all the time in practice.
