Colorado Women’s Basketball Recruiting

Conference: Pac-12Big 12

Head Coach: JR Payne (8th season in 2023-24)

Official Buffaloes roster


Unofficial Colorado 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:

  • February 2023: Lova Lagerlid (2024) commits to Colorado
  • March 2023: head coach JR Payne receives a contract extension through the 2027-28 season (press release)
  • March 2023: Quay Miller announces she’ll return to Colorado for the 2023-24 season, using her COVID extra year of eligibility (press release)
  • April 2023: assistant coach Tim Hays is named Pepperdine head coach
  • April 2023 transfer portal entrants: Ally Fitzgerald (to UC Davis), Lizzie Holder (to Navy), and Jada Wynn (Texas Tech)
  • April 2023: Jaylyn Sherrod announces she’ll return to Colorado for the 2023-24 season, using her COVID extra year of eligibility (press release)
  • April 2023: Maddie Nolan grad-transfers in from Michigan (press release)
  • May 2023: Taelor Karr joins the staff as an assistant coach (press release)
  • June 2023: Sara-Rose Smith transfers in from Missouri (press release)
  • October 2023: Matt Hower and Shelley Sheetz are promoted to assistant coaches (press release)
  • October 2023: Grace Oliver (2024) commits to Colorado
  • November 2023: Tabitha Betson (2024) commits to Colorado
  • January 2024: Erin Powell (2024) commits to Colorado
  • April 2024 transfer portal entrants: Jadyn Atchison, Mikayla Johnson, Ruthie Loomis-Goltl (to Idaho), Brianna McLeod, Shelomi Sanders (to Alabama A&M), Lele Tanuvasa, and Aaronette Vonleh (to Baylor)
  • April 2024: Frida Formann announces she’ll return to Colorado for the 2024-25 season, using her COVID extra year (press release)
  • April 2024: Nyamer Diew transfers in from Iowa State (press release)
  • April 2024: Lior Garzon grad-transfers in from Oklahoma State (press release)

2024 Recruiting Class

2024 Colorado Women’s Basketball Commitments

Tabitha Betson, 6-2 F, DME Academy (Daytona Beach, FL) / hometown: Melbourne, Australia [offered July 2023; committed 11/4/2023; other finalists: Clemson, MarylandNorthwestern, and Southern Cal]

Lova Lagerlid, 6-1 CG, Stockholm, Sweden [offered June 2022; committed 2/4/2023]

Grace Oliver, 6-2 F, Noble and Greenough School (Dedham, MA) [offered July 2023; committed 10/18/2023; other finalists: Columbia, Georgetown, and Harvard]

Erin Powell, 6-0 W, Charwood College (Loughborough, England) [offered December 2023; committed 1/10/2024]


2024 Targets

[none known]


Former 2024 Targets

Lovisa Åsbrink Höse, 6-6 F/C, Stockholm, Sweden [offered June 2022; committed to Florida Atlantic, September 2023]

Jenessa Cotton, 6-2 F, Mater Dei HS (Santa Ana, CA) [offered July 2023; Colorado not among five finalists announced in September 2023]

Rian Forestier, 5-11 CG, Brandeis HS (San Antonio, TX) [offered January 2023; committed to Southern Cal, April 2023]

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

Harper Peterson, 6-3 W/F, Whitney HS (Rocklin, CA) [offered May 2021; Colorado not among three finalists]

Sira Thienou, 6-3 W, Shining Star Sports Academy (Petersburg, VA) / hometown: Bamako, Mali [offered July 2023; Colorado not among five finalists announced in September 2023]

Tilda Trygger, 6-6 F, Stockholm, Sweden [offered July 2022; committed to NC State, January 2024]


See next page for 2025 commitments and targets for Colorado 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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