Timea Gardiner (born October 22, 2003) is a British-American college basketball player for the UCLA Bruins of the Big Ten Conference.

[2] Rated a five-star recruit and the number 6 player in the 2022 class by ESPN,[3] she committed to play college basketball for Oregon State over offers from Stanford and UCLA.

[2] Before her freshman season at Oregon State, Gardiner crashed her scooter while riding around campus, leading to a minor injury and a CT scan that revealed blood clots in her lungs.

After being sidelined for the first half of the season, she averaged 8.7 points and 3.5 rebounds per game, earning Pac-12 All-Freshman honorable mention.

[5][6] As a sophomore, Gardiner averaged 11.6 points and 7 rebounds per game, helping her team reach the Elite Eight of the 2024 NCAA tournament.