Conference: ACC

Head Coach: Kara Lawson (4th season in 2023-24)

Official Blue Devils roster

Unofficial Duke 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: Yale grad transfer Camilla Emsbo announces her commitment to Duke for the 2023-24 season
• March 2023 transfer portal entrants: Shayeann Day-Wilson (to Miami [FL]), Jordyn Oliver (to Vanderbilt), and Lee Volker
• March 2023: Celeste Taylor announces she’ll return to Duke for the 2023-24 season, using her COVID extra year of eligibility (press release)
• April 2023 transfer portal entrants: Shay Bollin (to Illinois) and Celeste Taylor (to Ohio State)
• April 2023: assistant coach Winston Gandy leaves to join the South Carolina staff
• April 2023: Jordan Wood (2023) signs with Duke (press release)
• May 2023: Taina Mair transfers in from Boston College (press release)
• May 2023: Toby Fournier (2024) commits to Duke
• May 2023: Karen Middleton joins the staff as an assistant coach (press release)
• July 2023: Pierre Miller is promoted to assistant coach after being hired in May 2023 as director of player development
• July 2023: Vanessa de Jesus sustains a knee injury that means she’ll miss the 2023-24 season (press release)
• October 2023: Jenessa Cotton (2024) commits to Duke
• November 2023: Louann Battiston, Jenessa Cotton, Arianna Roberson, and Toby Fournier sign with Duke, 2024 class (press release)
• January 2024: Louann Battiston enrolls early
• April 2024: Riley Nelson transfers in from Maryland (press release)

2024 Recruiting Class

2024 Duke Women’s Basketball Commitments

Louann Battiston, 5-5 PG, Montigny-le-Tilleul, Belgium [signed 11/8/2023; enrolled early, January 2024]

Jenessa Cotton, 6-2 F, Mater Dei HS (Santa Ana, CA) [committed 10/30/2023; other finalists: Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan, and Washington State]

Arianna Roberson, 6-4 F, Clark HS (San Antonio, TX) [offered April 2023; committed/signed 11/8/2023; other finalists: UConn, Oregon, Southern Cal, and Utah]

Toby Fournier, 6-2 F, Crestwood Prep (Toronto, ON) [committed 5/17/2023; other finalists: Arizona, UCLA, UConn, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Stanford]

2024 Targets

[none known]

Former 2024 Targets

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

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

Avery Howell, 6-0 SG/W, Boise HS (ID) [offered July 2023; Duke among five finalists announced in August 2023; committed to Southern Cal, October 2023]

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

Teagan Mallegni, 6-1 W, McFarland HS (WI) [Duke among seven finalists announced in February 2023; committed to Iowa, April 2023]

Madisen McDaniel, 5-7 PG, Bishop McNamara (Forestville, MD) [Duke among four finalists; committed to South Carolina, August 2023]

Olivia Olson, 6-1 PG, Benilde St. Margaret’s HS (St. Louis Park, MN) [Duke among ten finalists announced in August 2022; committed to Michigan, October 2022]

Taliyah Parker, 6-1 G, South Grand Prairie HS (TX) {previously attended Putnam City West HS (Oklahoma City, OK)} [offered November 2022; Duke among eight finalists announced in August 2023; committed to Texas A&M, October 2023]

Harper Peterson, 6-3 W/F, Whitney HS (Rocklin, CA) [offered November 2022; Duke not among her three finalists]

MacKenly Randolph, 6-1 F, Sierra Canyon School (Chatsworth, CA) [Duke among five finalists announced in August 2023, not among three finalists announced in October 2023]

Tajianna Roberts, 5-9 SG, IMG Academy (Bradenton, FL) {previously attended La Jolla Country Day School (CA)} [Duke among five finalists announced in August 2023; committed to Louisville, October 2023]

Kennedy Smith, 6-1 F, Etiwanda HS (CA) [Duke among five finalists; committed to Southern Cal, November 2023]

Sarah Strong, 6-2 W/F, Grace Christian School (Sanford, NC) [Duke among three finalists; committed to UConn, April 2024]

Blanca Thomas, 6-5 C, Charlotte Catholic HS (NC) [Duke among ten finalists announced in August 2022; committed to North Carolina, May 2023]

Kyndal Walker, 5-9 PG, St. John’s College HS (Washington, DC) [Duke among five finalists announced in March 2023; committed to Maryland, April 2023]

See next page for 2025 commitments and targets for Duke 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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