Kansas State University Athletics
2025-26 Women's Basketball Roster
Jersey Number 34
Tess Heal
- Position:
- Guard
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Melbourne, Australia
- High School:
- Lowther Hall
- Prev School:
- Stanford/Santa Clara
HEAL'S TROPHY CASE
• Two-time All-West Coast Conference (WCC) First Team (2023 and 2024)
• 2023 WCC Newcomer of the Year
• Six-time WCC Player of the Week
• 2023 WCC All-Freshman Team
• Conference-record 12-time WCC Freshman of the Week
• 2024 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
• 2024 WCC All-Academic Team (2024)
2024-25 (STANFORD)
Played in 30 games with eight starts... Logged 646 minutes (21.5 mpg) of action... Tallied 239 points (8.0 ppg) on a field goal percentage of .503 (85-of-169) including a .493 (34-of-69) three-point percentage... Shot .875 (35-of-40) from the free throw line... Hauled in 60 rebounds (2.0 rpg)... Dished out 35 assists (1.2 apg)... Pocketed 14 steals and blocked eight shots... Scored in double figures in 11 games including a season-high 24 at Wake Forest (1/26/25).
2022-24 (SANTA CLARA)
Two-time All-West Coast Conference (WCC) First Team (2023 and 2024)... 2023 WCC Newcomer of the Year... Six-time WCC Player of the Week... 2023 WCC All-Freshman Team... Conference-record 12-time WCC Freshman of the Week...
2024 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District... 2024 WCC All-Academic Team (2024)... Averaged 18.6 points on 47.2 percent shooting... Pulled in 4.0 rebounds per game... Handed out 4.5 assists in 32.2 minutes per game... One of only three players, along with Iowa's Caitlin Clark and Wofford's Rachael Rose, to shoot at least 45.0 percent and average 18 points, four rebounds and four assists over the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons... Departed Santa Clara as the program's 11th-leading scorer all-time (1,225), second in scoring average (18.6), fifth in free throws made (332), second in free throw percentage (.867) and 10th in assists (296).
BASKETBALL AUSTRALIA
Averaged 7.8 points, 3.8 rebounds and 4.0 assists in six games at the FIBA U19 World Cup in Madrid, Spain in July 2023... Helped Australia to a gold-medal finish at the FIBA U18 Asian Championship, Division A in Bengaluru, India in September 2022... Averaged 7.0 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.4 assists in five games.
HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB
Played for Victoria Metro at U18 2021 Grand Final of the Australian Junior Championships... Scored 25 points with 10 rebounds and five assists... Captained the team at three Junior National Championships... Won two gold medals and one silver... Went to inaugural Junior NBA Championships in 2018 to represent Asia-Pacific and came in fourth overall... Part of Victorian National Performance Program for three years... An all-star performance helped her team win a Division I Youth Championship in 2019.
PERSONAL
Family of Australian basketball royalty... Niece of Australian Men's Basketball legend, Shane Heal... Cousin of Shyla Heal, who was the eighth selection in the 2021 WNBA Draft by the Chicago Sky.
• Two-time All-West Coast Conference (WCC) First Team (2023 and 2024)
• 2023 WCC Newcomer of the Year
• Six-time WCC Player of the Week
• 2023 WCC All-Freshman Team
• Conference-record 12-time WCC Freshman of the Week
• 2024 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
• 2024 WCC All-Academic Team (2024)
2024-25 (STANFORD)
Played in 30 games with eight starts... Logged 646 minutes (21.5 mpg) of action... Tallied 239 points (8.0 ppg) on a field goal percentage of .503 (85-of-169) including a .493 (34-of-69) three-point percentage... Shot .875 (35-of-40) from the free throw line... Hauled in 60 rebounds (2.0 rpg)... Dished out 35 assists (1.2 apg)... Pocketed 14 steals and blocked eight shots... Scored in double figures in 11 games including a season-high 24 at Wake Forest (1/26/25).
2022-24 (SANTA CLARA)
Two-time All-West Coast Conference (WCC) First Team (2023 and 2024)... 2023 WCC Newcomer of the Year... Six-time WCC Player of the Week... 2023 WCC All-Freshman Team... Conference-record 12-time WCC Freshman of the Week...
2024 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District... 2024 WCC All-Academic Team (2024)... Averaged 18.6 points on 47.2 percent shooting... Pulled in 4.0 rebounds per game... Handed out 4.5 assists in 32.2 minutes per game... One of only three players, along with Iowa's Caitlin Clark and Wofford's Rachael Rose, to shoot at least 45.0 percent and average 18 points, four rebounds and four assists over the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons... Departed Santa Clara as the program's 11th-leading scorer all-time (1,225), second in scoring average (18.6), fifth in free throws made (332), second in free throw percentage (.867) and 10th in assists (296).
BASKETBALL AUSTRALIA
Averaged 7.8 points, 3.8 rebounds and 4.0 assists in six games at the FIBA U19 World Cup in Madrid, Spain in July 2023... Helped Australia to a gold-medal finish at the FIBA U18 Asian Championship, Division A in Bengaluru, India in September 2022... Averaged 7.0 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.4 assists in five games.
HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB
Played for Victoria Metro at U18 2021 Grand Final of the Australian Junior Championships... Scored 25 points with 10 rebounds and five assists... Captained the team at three Junior National Championships... Won two gold medals and one silver... Went to inaugural Junior NBA Championships in 2018 to represent Asia-Pacific and came in fourth overall... Part of Victorian National Performance Program for three years... An all-star performance helped her team win a Division I Youth Championship in 2019.
PERSONAL
Family of Australian basketball royalty... Niece of Australian Men's Basketball legend, Shane Heal... Cousin of Shyla Heal, who was the eighth selection in the 2021 WNBA Draft by the Chicago Sky.
K-State WBB | First Practice
Tuesday, September 23
K-State WBB | Feeding the Band
Wednesday, September 10
K-State WBB | Postgame Press Conference vs USC (NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen)
Saturday, March 29
K-State WBB | Postgame Highlights vs USC (NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen)
Saturday, March 29
