MADISON – As a high school senior in 2022, Shay Bollin was one of the top girls basketball prospects in the nation.

She’ll try to regain that form with Wisconsin.

The 6-foot-3 forward signed with the Badgers and will join the team for the upcoming season. She spent the past two seasons at Illinois after starting her career at Duke.

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According to the Champaign News-Gazette, Bollin missed this past season due to a back injury. She averaged 2.1 points and 1.3 rebounds per game for Illinois in an average of 8 minutes of action in 2023-24. She played in eight games for Duke as a freshman.

She missed her junior and senior high school seasons while recovering from knee injuries. According to the Boston Globe, neither injury involved a ligament tear but the repair of her right kneecap as a junior and her left kneecap as a senior.

Next season will be Bollin's fourth year of college, but she appears to have a redshirt year to use as well.

Bollin announced the commitment on Instagram, noting that she completed her undergrad work at Illinois and will be a graduate student at UW.

The addition of Bollin pushes the Badgers 2025-26 roster to 13 players. The roster limit for next season is 15.