Conference: Big Ten
Head Coach: Brenda Frese (22nd season in 2023-24)
Unofficial Maryland Women’s Basketball
Scholarship Chart
Note: The NCAA granted an extra year of eligibility to 2020-21 D-I winter sports athletes (including women’s basketball players). Until there is definitive word that a player will be taking advantage of this extra year, the WBB Blog scholarship charts will not reflect this extra eligibility.
Personnel Notes:
- January 2023: Summer Bostock enrolls early but will not compete until the 2023-24 season (press release)
- February 2023: Ava McKennie (2024) commits to Maryland
- March 2023: Brinae Alexander, Lavender Briggs, and Faith Masonius all say they plan to return to Maryland for the 2023-24 season
- March 2023: Mila Reynolds enters her name into the transfer portal; 2023 signee Amiyah Reynolds (her sister) is released from her NLI and reopens her recruitment (both eventually commit to Purdue)
- March 2023 transfer portal entrants: Ava Sciolla (to Columbia) and Gia Cooke (to Houston)
- April 2023: Jakia Brown-Turner transfers in from NC State (press release)
- April 2023: Kyndal Walker (2024) commits to Maryland
- June 2023: Noelle Cobb is hired as director of recruiting/assistant coach (press release)
- June 2023: Kaitlynn Fratz is named assistant coach/defensive specialist; Jessica Imhof is named director of scouting/assistant coach (press release)
- June 2023: Breanna Williams (2024) commits to Maryland
- October 2023: Zen Nuako and Mary Sareen join the roster as walk-ons (press release)
- December 2023:Emma Chardon is out for the season with a torn ACL
- January 2024: Riley Nelson is out for the season with a torn ACL
- February 2024: Isimenme Ozzy-Momodu (juco transfer) commits to Maryland
- February 2024: Rainey Welson(2025) commits to Maryland
- February 2024: Lavender Briggs is out for the season with a knee injury
- March 2024: Summer Bostock enters the transfer portal
- April 2024 transfer portal entrants: Hawa Doumbouya(to Virginia), Faith Masonius (grad xfer to Seton Hall), and Riley Nelson (to Duke)
- April 2024 transfer commitments: Amari DeBerry (UConn) and Christina Dalce (Villanova)
- April 2024 transfer signings:Kaylene Smikle (Rutgers) and Sarah Te-Biasu (VCU grad xfer) (press release);Saylor Poffenbarger (Arkansas) (press release, which also covers juco transfer Isimenme Ozzy-Momodu)
- May 2024: Virginia grad transfer Mir McLean commits to Maryland
2024 Recruiting Class
2024 Maryland Women’s Basketball Commitments
Ava McKennie, 6-2 W, McDonogh School (Owings Mills, MD) / hometown: McSherrystown, PA [offered September 2022; committed 2/23/2023; other finalists: Harvard, Penn State, and Princeton]
Isimenme Ozzy-Momodu, 6-3 juco sophomore F/C, Gulf Coast State College (FL) / London, England [committed 2/20/2024]
Kyndal Walker, 5-9 PG, St. John’s College HS (Washington, DC) [offered October 2022; committed 4/26/2023; other finalists: Arizona State, Duke, Ohio State, and Wake Forest]
Breanna Williams, 6-2 F, Billings Skyview HS (MT) [committed 6/25/2023]
Former 2024 Targets
Tabitha Betson, 6-2 F, DME Academy (Daytona Beach, FL) / hometown: Melbourne, Australia [offered July 2023; Maryland among five finalists announced in October 2023; committed to Colorado, November 2023]
Mikayla Blakes, 6-0 CG, Rutgers Prep (Somerset, NJ) [offered July 2021; Maryland not among seven finalists announced in August 2023]
Tahj Bloom, 6-3 W/F, Grayslake Central HS (IL) [offered April 2021; committed to Mississippi State, June 2023]
Alexandra Blue, 6-2 W, Lake Highland Prep School (Orlando, FL) [offered July 2021; committed to Virginia Tech, July 2023]
Kendall Dudley, 6-1 W, Sidwell Friends School (Washington, DC) [offered April 2021; Maryland not among 10 finalists announced in October 2022]
Joyce Edwards, 6-2 F, Camden HS (SC) [offered June 2022; Maryland not among three finalists]
Tatum Greene, 6-3 SG/W, St. John’s College HS (Washington, DC) {previously attended McDonogh School (Owings Mills, MD)} [offered July 2021; Maryland among 10 finalists announced in August 2022; committed to Boston College, February 2023]
Kate Koval, 6-5 C, Long Island Lutheran HS (Brookville, NY) [committed to Notre Dame, October 2023]
Olivia Olson, 6-1 PG, Benilde St. Margaret’s HS (St. Louis Park, MN) [offered April 2021; Maryland not among 10 finalists announced in August 2022]
Britt Prince, 5-11 PG, Elkhorn North HS (Omaha, NE) [offered April 2021; Maryland not among 11 finalists announced in September 2023]
Cameron Rust, 6-2 F, Worcester Academy (MA) [offered March 2021; committed to Penn State, February 2023]
Clara Silva, 6-6 C, Portugal [committed to Virginia Tech, September 2023]
Zania Socka-Nguemen, 6-4 F/C, Sidwell Friends School (Washington, DC) [offered July 2022; Maryland among eight finalists announced in August 2023, not among four finalists announced in October 2023]
Blanca Thomas, 6-5 C, Charlotte Catholic HS (NC) [offered June 2022; Maryland not among 10 finalists announced in August 2022]
Kennedy Umeh, 6-4 C, McDonogh School (Owings Mills, MD) [offered June 2021; committed to Stanford, August 2023]
Talayah Walker, 5-10 SG, Our Lady of Good Counsel HS (Olney, MD) [offered July 2021; committed to Penn State, July 2023]
Laura Williams, 6-2 F, St. Paul VI Catholic HS (Chantilly, VA) [offered June 2022; Maryland among five finalists announced in August 2023; committed to Southern Cal, September 2023]
Faith Wiseman, 6-4 F, Indian Creek HS (Trafalgar, IN) [offered July 2022; committed to Indiana, October 2022]
See next page for 2025 commitments and targets for Maryland women’s basketball
Disclaimers: The roster information, offers, and commitments are all unofficial. Offers come and go, so some offers listed may no longer be on the table, and some offers are erroneously reported. In addition, the target lists are inevitably incomplete because offers are not publicly reported for many prospects.
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