Air Hearn to Return for 2026 AU Pro Basketball Season
Air Hearn is returning to Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball for the 2026 season in Nashville. The guard made her mark across the league’s first three years of competition from 2022 to 2024, and she is set to add even more to her AU resume this winter.
Hearn is set to arrive after a standout run with Maccabi Karmiel in Israel’s top division, where she averaged 14.7 points, 7.5 rebounds, 5.8 assists, and 3.3 steals per game. The performance adds to her international experience, which includes pro seasons in Germany and Iceland.
Hearn has built an impactful AU career. Across 42 games, she holds averages of 11.2 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 2.5 assists per game while shooting 48.8 percent from the field.
Her 2024 campaign was her most dynamic season, earning a 5th-place finish. She averaged 18.1 points on 54.6 percent shooting, hit 29 three pointers across 12 games, and added 5.6 rebounds, 3.7 assists, 26 steals, and nine blocks. She reached double figures in eleven of her twelve outings and reached a single-game season high of 25 points.
In 2023, Hearn finished 14th with 4,479 points and tied for the league lead with 3,300 win points alongside Naz Hillmon and CC Andrews. She delivered seven games with 300 or more leaderboard points, including a career-best 529 in the finale against Team Sims. She averaged 9.5 points and 2.5 rebounds that season while ranking in the top ten in three-point makes, attempts, and percentage. She also shot 86.4 percent from the free-throw line.
Hearn opened her AU career in 2022 with a 15th-place finish and 3,861 leaderboard points. She reached the 300-point mark six times, with a season high of 399 points in the Week Five opener against Team Brown. She appeared in all 15 games, averaging 7.5 points and 2.3 rebounds, and made an early defensive impact with 19 total steals. She posted 17 points to close Week Five and added double-figure scoring performances in both of her Week One starts.
Hearn holds several notable marks in AU history. She is tied for third in most career wins, tied for third in single-season win points with her 3,330 total in 2023, sits ninth on the all-time leaderboard, and ranks eighth in career three-pointers.
Hearn also brings a decorated college resume. She was a four-year letter winner at Memphis, where she scored 1,945 points to rank eighth in program history. She set the Tigers’ career record for made three pointers with 218 and finished among the program’s top ten in free throws made and attempted. She also recorded 441 assists and earned All-American Athletic Conference honors twice.
Her return adds another proven scorer and playmaker to the 2026 roster, and she enters the season positioned to climb even higher in the AU record books.
AU Pro Basketball returns to Nashville, Tennessee, with elite talent and electrifying energy, for its fifth championship season on February 4, 2026, at Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium. Tickets for the upcoming season are available now.
Siera Jones is the digital media reporter at Athletes Unlimited. You can follow her on Instagram and X @sieraajones.
