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Former Syracuse guard Camdyn Nelson is transferring to Northwestern, she announced on her Instagram Sunday. Nelson is SU’s second transfer to announce their next destination, following Sophie Burrows’ commitment to North Carolina Saturday.

Nelson announced her intention to transfer from Syracuse a week ago, becoming the Orange’s fifth player to do so. The former four-star point guard entered her freshman season with high expectations, having claimed the 2025 Gatorade Connecticut Player of the Year award, but fell out of SU’s rotation after starting its first three games of the 2025-26 season.

She finished her lone campaign with SU, averaging 1.4 points per game across 19 appearances, and she didn’t play double-digit minutes in any of Syracuse’s Atlantic Coast Conference contests.

Now, Nelson joins a Northwestern squad looking to rebuild after a disappointing 8-21 season. Longtime Wildcats head coach Joe McKeown was dismissed after failing to reach double-digit wins for the fourth straight campaign, and he was replaced by former Princeton head coach Carla Berube on March 25.

Berube is tasked with rebuilding a Wildcats backcourt that’s graduating senior point guard Caroline Lau, who led the Big Ten with 245 assists and led the nation with 8.4 assists per game last season. Nelson is the first piece to solving that puzzle.

Lau and Nelson played together at St. Luke’s School in New Canaan, Connecticut. In a reply to a comment on Nelson’s commitment post, Lau wrote, “just incredible.”

“I purposefully would put her against her sister (Mackenzie Nelson) in practice every single day, or against Caroline every single day,” former St. Luke’s head coach Matt Ward said, referring to Nelson. “Because I knew it was gonna make her a lot better.”

Published on April 12, 2026 at 2:38 pm
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