2024-25 Women's Basketball Roster

Jersey Number 20
Lexi Donarski
- Position:
- G
- Height:
- 6-0
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- La Crosse, Wis.
- High School:
- Aquinas
- Prev School:
- Iowa State
Bio
2024-25: Started in all 37 games … Scored a season-high 21 points against UNCW … Posted a second 20-point game with 20 points against Boston College in the Second Round of the ACC Tournament … Led Carolina with 86 made threes, ranking No. 5 at UNC in a season … Shot 39.8% from beyond the arc, No. 10 in a season at Carolina … Six games with five or more threes made … Three straight games with five threes made … 22 games in double-figure scoring, including 12 in ACC action … Shot a perfect 5-of-5 from the field in the win at Louisville … Dished out a season-best four assists against Notre Dame and against Florida State … Ranked No. 5 among ACC players with 2.32 threes made per game … Averaged 10.7 points, 1.9 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 1.1 steals per game.
2023-24: Played in all 33 games and started 32 … Ranked third on the team with 10.5 points per game … Named to the All-ACC Academic Team ... n her first game as a Tar Heel, UNC’s win over Gardner-Webb on Nov. 8, scored 14 points, including four three-pointers. All of her threes came in the third quarter, when she was 4-4 from long range … Didn’t play in the first half of the game against Vermont because she was rehabbing an injury. After UNC trailed 28-17 at the break, she started the second half and helped key the comeback win, hitting UNC’s only two three-pointers … Against UNCG, led UNC with a then-season-high 22 points, including 6-8 shooting from three … Against Clemson in the ACC opener, scored 23 points, again hitting six threes … Scored 20 points vs. Pitt, hitting six threes, five of them in the second half … Reached 1,500 career points with a second-quarter three against the Panthers … Hit 5 three-pointers against NC State and led the Tar Heels with 23 points in the top-10 homecourt victory … Named to the five-member 2023 ACC Newcomer Team at the start of the season
At Iowa State: As a junior in 2022-23, averaged 12.1 points per game and was named to the Big 12 All-Defensive Team for the second year in row … As a sophomore, was the 2022 Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year and a first-team All-Big 12 selection … In addition to her defensive efforts, she ranked 17th nationally in three-pointers with 88 makes as she averaged 14.3 points per game … 2021 Big 12 Freshman of the Year in her first season in Ames after averaging 13.0 points per game, tops among the conference's freshmen … Academic All-District and Academic All-Big 12 first team honoree
At Aquinas High School: Wisconsin's Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior, when she averaged 24.2 points per game … McDonald's All-American and a member of the Jordan Brand Classic Girls National Team as a senior
More on Donarski: Daughter of Dave and Pam Donarski, both of whom coached her as a young player … Younger sister, Macy, plays basketball at Montana … Wore No. 21 growing up and at Iowa State, but switched to No. 20 when she arrived in Chapel Hill
2023-24: Played in all 33 games and started 32 … Ranked third on the team with 10.5 points per game … Named to the All-ACC Academic Team ... n her first game as a Tar Heel, UNC’s win over Gardner-Webb on Nov. 8, scored 14 points, including four three-pointers. All of her threes came in the third quarter, when she was 4-4 from long range … Didn’t play in the first half of the game against Vermont because she was rehabbing an injury. After UNC trailed 28-17 at the break, she started the second half and helped key the comeback win, hitting UNC’s only two three-pointers … Against UNCG, led UNC with a then-season-high 22 points, including 6-8 shooting from three … Against Clemson in the ACC opener, scored 23 points, again hitting six threes … Scored 20 points vs. Pitt, hitting six threes, five of them in the second half … Reached 1,500 career points with a second-quarter three against the Panthers … Hit 5 three-pointers against NC State and led the Tar Heels with 23 points in the top-10 homecourt victory … Named to the five-member 2023 ACC Newcomer Team at the start of the season
At Iowa State: As a junior in 2022-23, averaged 12.1 points per game and was named to the Big 12 All-Defensive Team for the second year in row … As a sophomore, was the 2022 Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year and a first-team All-Big 12 selection … In addition to her defensive efforts, she ranked 17th nationally in three-pointers with 88 makes as she averaged 14.3 points per game … 2021 Big 12 Freshman of the Year in her first season in Ames after averaging 13.0 points per game, tops among the conference's freshmen … Academic All-District and Academic All-Big 12 first team honoree
At Aquinas High School: Wisconsin's Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior, when she averaged 24.2 points per game … McDonald's All-American and a member of the Jordan Brand Classic Girls National Team as a senior
More on Donarski: Daughter of Dave and Pam Donarski, both of whom coached her as a young player … Younger sister, Macy, plays basketball at Montana … Wore No. 21 growing up and at Iowa State, but switched to No. 20 when she arrived in Chapel Hill