Former UTC Hoopseter Olafsdottir Helps Club Win Icelandic League Title

  • Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Not even a month removed from her time in the Scenic City, Chattanooga women’s basketball alum Sigrun Olafsdottir is already off winning championships as the longtime UTC standout helped her new pro club Haukar raise the 2025 Icelandic League title on Tuesday.

Haukar Basketball Club, based in Olafsdottir’s hometown of Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, put together a dominant regular season finishing with a league-leading record of 19-3 overall. Haukar then made its way past Grindavik and Valur in the Playoff Quarterfinals and Semifinals before taking down Njardvik 3-2 in a thrilling best-of-five series to clinch the Icelandic League title.

“It just means a lot being able to come back home and finish winning the championship with my club,” Olafsdottir said.
“It was an awesome experience and I’m so happy I got to be a part of it!”

“Sigrun is a champion,” Chattanooga head coach Deandra Schirmer added. “She has proven that here at Chattanooga and now she has proven that at the professional level. Once our season finished this year she continued working out and training so she could go play professionally in Iceland.

“She has always been the best representative of our program and our university while she was here, and now she continues to make us proud as a professional player.”

While Olafsdottir was a little late to the party, missing the entire regular season for Haukar to wrap up her time in Chattanooga, the five-year UTC starter and multi-time Southern Conference champion was immediately inserted into the team’s rotation as she played a pivotal role in all five games of the League Finals against Njardvik.

Olafsdottir ended up averaging 18.8 minutes/game, 3.8 points/game, 2.8 steals/game, 2.6 rebounds/game and 1.8 assists/game over the course of the five-game series against Njardvik. The back-to-back SoCon All-Defensive Team selection made her presence most known on the defensive side of the ball, finishing with 4+ steals in three of the five games in the championship series.

Olafsdottir is actively one of several UTC alumni currently playing professional basketball overseas. She joins the likes of Jada Guinn (2023-24), Yazz Wazeerud-Din (2022-23), Lara Habling (2021-22) and Chelsey Shumpert (2013-17) to name a few.
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