Addison Bjorn, one of the nation’s top girls high school basketball players, held an assembly on Nov. 20 inside the Park Hill South gym where she announced her commitment to play collegiate basketball at the University of Texas.
The announcement comes more than two years after Bjorn originally received an offer from Texas. Bjorn will become a Longhorn under head coach Vic Schaefer next year, joining a team that won a national championship in 1986 and most recently won the Big 12 Tournament in 2022 and 2024 before moving to the SEC.
“I chose Texas because of the strong culture and it really felt like home,” Bjorn said via press release. “It’s an amazing opportunity for me to compete on the biggest stages and against the best competition in the country. My goal is to do whatever it takes to help bring a National Championship to The University of Texas.”
Bjorn received her first Division 1 offer from Louisville in 2021 before getting offers from both Kansas and Missouri about seven months later. The Park Hill South star turned down other lucrative offers from Connecticut, Iowa, Notre Dame, North Carolina and Duke, among others.
The 2025 Missouri Gatorade Player of the Year is on the watch list for the Naismith Girls High School Player of the Year Trophy. Bjorn is ESPN’s No. 10 recruit in 2026 class after earning a Naismith High School All-America honorable mention selection last year.
“Addison is someone we have been recruiting for a long time now and it’s great to finally add her to our Longhorn family,” Schaefer said. “Addison will bring toughness, hard work and a competitive spirit along with an incredible skill set being able to score at all three levels. She can also play multiple positions, which will allow us to be very difficult to defend and allow us to continue to be a tough, physical and aggressive defensive team as well.”
While speaking during the assembly, Bjorn praised her mother’s enthusiasm, her father for his coaching guidance, her twin brother, Carson, for his support and critical analysis, and her older brother, Jack, who served as a role model and trailblazer in showing her success and dedication. She also got teary-eyed while sharing words about her coaches, trainers, and friends before announcing her commitment in a highlight video.
Addison Bjorn committed to play at the University of Texas next year. Contributed Photo
The versatile guard stands at 6-foot-2 and was on Park Hill South’s district championship team as a freshman before helping the Panthers to a record-breaking season last year, going 26-0 in the regular season before falling in the district finals to Staley. She shot 50% from the field in her first three years for the Panthers, tallying 1,636 points, 778 rebounds and 306 assists.
Bjorn has also won three gold medals representing the United States. She most recently helped Team USA to a gold medal in the FIBA U19 World Cup this past summer in Czechia after previously winning gold at the 2024 FIBA U17 World Cup and 2023 FIBA U16 Americas Championship.
“Even with all of the accomplishments, that’s not where I start when people ask me about Addie,” Park Hill South head coach Josh Dorr said. “What impresses me most is the kind of person she is. When I talk to college coaches, I begin with her work ethic and her relentless dedication to improvement.”
Dorr has known Bjorn for about eight years, when Bjorn first attended one of his youth camps. It was evident to him very quickly that he was watching a special player, continuing to receive updates from her father.
Addison Bjorn in the district championship game against Staley last season.
“She excelled at everything we did and kept asking for more challenges,” Dorr said during the ceremony. “After just one day, I knew she was going to be a special player.”
Bjorn will go from impressing Dorr as a fifth-grade Panther prospect to leaving behind an irreplicable legacy after she finishes her Park Hill South career this winter before beginning her collegiate ambitions in Austin, Texas.