IN PICS: Deion Sanders' daughter, Shelomi Sanders, returns to training with Alabama A&M squad after first season

Colorado Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders' daughter Shelomi Sanders left Boulder under a cloud in April 2024 to join the Alabama A&M Bulldogs. Shelomi started the season with impressive performances before her playing time reduced towards the end of her first season under coach Dawn Thornton.

Shelomi averaged 1.2 points on 23.3% shooting from the floor and 15.4% from beyond the arc, 0.4 rebounds and 0.3 assists in 3.9 minutes per game in 26 games played last season. She helped to lead Alabama A&M to a 14-4 Southwestern Athletic Conference and 21-11 overall record last season.

On Wednesday, the Bulldogs' Instagram page posted pictures of Shelomi and her teammates back in the gym, hard at work ahead of next season.

Shelomi Sanders' standout game for the Bulldogs last season came in the 66-56 win over the Alcorn State Lady Braves where she tallied six points, one rebound and two assists.

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When Shelomi Sanders revealed why she left Colorado

After earning first-team All-District honors while playing for Rockwall-Heath High School, Texas, Shelomi Sanders started her college basketball career at Jackson State in 2021 before following her charismatic father, Deion Sanders and her brothers, Shedeur and Shilo Sanders to Colorado to play for the Lady Buffs in 2023.

Shelomi's Colorado career did not go as planned. She only played 11 minutes in five games for the Lady Buffs and in April 2024, she entered the transfer portal, much to the disapproval of her father who blasted the move during a segment of the "DVNR" podcast.

"(It) was stupid," Coach Prime said. "You don't enter the portal. You get a team before you enter the portal. You kinda get a team before you enter the portal. You know, that's what I would advise a child. And I know, 'Well it's illegal...' C'mon, man.

"You've got to understand I'm a real father," Sanders said. "Where I come from, historically, kids follow their parents. The parents don't follow the kids. That doesn't work in my book."

During an Instagram live session in November 2024, Shelomi Sanders broke her silence on the matter, revealing why she left the Colorado Lady Buffs for Alabama A&M.

“I don’t want to say anything too bad,” Shelomi said. “It just wasn’t good energy. It wasn’t good vibes. There wasn’t enough being poured into me as a player and young lady. If I didn’t leave when I did, I promise you I would’ve quit.”

Coach Prime and Shelomi Sanders have since reconciled with the Colorado coach, even attending one of her games and praising her performance on an Instagram post afterward.