Conference: Big 12

Head Coach: Nicki Collen (3rd season in 2023-24)

Official Bears roster

Unofficial Baylor 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:

• March 2023: Kendra Gillispie enters her name into the transfer portal . . . and lands at Arkansas State
• March 2023: Aijha Blackwell announces she will return to Baylor for the 2023-24 season, using her COVID extra year of eligibility (Dre’Una Edwards will also return after being forced to sit out the 2022-23 season as a two-time transfer)
• March 2023: Belmont transfer Madison Bartley commits to Baylor (signing press release)
• April 2023: two more transfers commit to Baylor—Yaya Felder (from Ohio; signing press release) and Jada Walker (from Kentucky; signing press release)
• April 2023 transfer portal entrants: Jaden Owens (to TCU) and Erika Porter (to Bowling Green)
• May 2023: Denae Fritz transfers in from Iowa State (press release)
• July 2023: Sadie Edwards joins the staff as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator (press release)
• July 2023 staff promotions: Tony Greene to associate head coach, Tari Cummings to associate coach, Sophia Young-Malcolm to assistant coach and director of player development, and Aaron Sternecker to assistant coach and director of scouting and analytics (press release)
• October 2023: two 2024 prospects—Kayla Nelms and Ines Goryanova—commit to Baylor
• March 2024: Jana Van Gytenbeek and Sarah Andrews both announce they’ll return to Baylor for the 2024-25 season, using COVID extra year of eligibility
• April 2024 transfer portal entrants: Catarina Ferriera (grad xfer), Denae Fritz, and Lety Vasconcelos
• April 2024: Colorado transfer Aaronette Vonleh commits to Baylor

2024 Baylor Women’s Basketball Commitments

Ines Goryanova, 5-7 PG, DME Academy (Daytona Beach, FL) / hometown: London, England [offered July 2023; committed 10/20/2023; other finalists: Auburn, Cal, Iowa State, Louisville, Mississippi State, Texas A&M, and West Virginia]

Kayla Nelms, 6-1 F, Miami Country Day School (FL) [committed 10/11/2023]

2024 Targets

[none known]

Former 2024 Targets

Jaloni Cambridge, 5-7 PG, Montverde Academy (FL) {previously attended Enswoth HS (Nashville, TN)} [Baylor among five finalists; committed to Ohio State, December 2023]

Justice Carlton, 6-2 F, Seven Lakes HS (Katy, TX) [Baylor not among five finalists announced in May 2023]

Danielle Carnegie, 5-9 PG, Grayson HS (Loganville, GA) [committed to Georgia Tech, October 2023]

Joyce Edwards, 6-2 F, Camden HS (SC) [offered June 2022; Baylor not among three finalists]

Janeya Grant, 6-0 W, South Shore Christian Academy (Weymouth, MA) {previously attended Putnam Science Academy (CT)} [offered July 2023: Baylor among five finalists announced in August 2023; committed to St. John’s, September 2023]

Avery Howell, 6-0 SG/W, Boise HS (ID) [offered July 2023; Baylor not among five finalists announced in August 2023]

Jordan Lee, 6-0 W, St. Mary’s HS (Stockton, CA) [offered August 2022; Baylor among 11 finalists announced in July 2023; committed to Texas, September 2023]

Olivia Olson, 6-1 PG, Benilde St. Margaret’s HS (St. Louis Park, MN) [offered June 2021; committed to Michigan, September 2022]

Me’Arah O’Neal, 6-3 F/C, Episcopal HS (Bellaire, TX) [offered April 2023; Baylor among five finalists; committed to Florida, November 2023]

Taliyah Parker, 6-1 G, South Grand Prairie HS (TX) {previously attended Putnam City West HS (Oklahoma City, OK)} [offered June 2021; Baylor among eight finalists announced in August 2023; committed to Texas A&M, October 2023]

Britt Prince, 5-11 PG, Elkhorn North HS (Omaha, NE) [offered August 2022; committed to Nebraska, November 2023]

See next page for 2025 commitments and targets for Baylor 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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