Over the weekend, Kylee Kitts got a workout in that looked a little more like family bragging rights than a routine gym session.
The 6-foot-4 Ohio State guard and forward was seen training alongside her sister, South Carolina forward Chloe Kitts, along with basketball trainer Chris Hyppa and his son Jalen Hyppa, who plays at South Puget Sound. According to Inevitable Athlete, the session opened with reactive hand-eye coordination work and moved into stationary ball-handling drills before the group shifted to finishing drills around the rim. That part of the workout included close catch-and-shoot reps and finishing through contact in the paint.
From there, the action moved farther out. The players kept working their catch-and-shoot game as they stepped away from the basket and out to the three-point line, then turned the drill into a competition. Chris Hyppa set up a contested shooting challenge, and the first player to hit five shots from a spot took the round.
Kylee Kitts got the first win. Chloe answered at the next spot by knocking down five in a row, while Jalen took the third round.
Chloe then won the tiebreaker. The sisters later went head-to-head again in a shooting contest to see who could hit the most threes in one minute.
That one got hot in a hurry. Chloe and Kylee both caught a rhythm, but Chloe started with ten straight makes and finished with 20 total to win the competition.
The workout wrapped with Chloe and Jalen in a 1-on-1 challenge to three points from three different spots. Chloe took the first spot 3-2, Jalen responded with a 3-2 win at the second, and Chloe closed it out with a 3-1 victory at the third.
Chloe Kitts is heading back to South Carolina for her final season in a Gamecock uniform under Dawn Staley. She missed time last season after suffering an ACL injury while rebounding in practice. She is projected as a first-round pick in the 2027 WNBA draft, and according to Chris Wellbau of On3, she will bring back leadership and competitiveness, something South Carolina was missing last year.
Kylee Kitts, meanwhile, finished last season as a redshirt-freshman for Ohio State. She played in 30 games and started 19, averaging 7.4 points and 5.6 rebounds per game while tying for second on the team in rebounds per game. She scored a career-high 18 points on December 7th, 2025 against Northwestern and matched it again on January 11, 2026 against Maryland.
Ohio State’s win over No. 8 Maryland, 89-76, helped establish the Buckeyes as a top-ten contender at the time, according to Brianna Mac Kay of the Columbus Dispatch. Afterward, Ohio State coach Kevin McGuff pointed to the work his team has put in on the defensive glass and at the other end of the floor.
"They are one of the best offensive rebounding teams in the country," Ohio State coach Kevin McGuff said. "We end up even on the boards.
I think those were two big things - our half court defense and our rebounding. We wouldn't have won this game a month ago.
We just weren't good enough in either one of those areas. To our players' credit, we've gotten a lot better."
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