Notre Dame Women’s Basketball Recruiting

Conference: ACC

Head Coach: Niele Ivey (4th season in 2023-24)

Official Fighting Irish roster

Quick links to WBB Blog content on Notre Dame women’s basketball:

Unofficial Notre Dame 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:

  • April 2023: Anna DeWolfe grad-transfers in from Fordham (press release)
  • May 2023: Becky Obinma grad-transfers in from Pepperdine (press release)
  • September 2023: walk-on Sarah Cernugel is placed on scholarship
  • October 2023: Kate Koval (2024) commits to Notre Dame
  • January 2024: Emma Risch is out for the season (hip surgery)
  • January 2024: confirmation late this month that Olivia Miles won’t play at all in 2023-24; she had suffered a knee injury in March 2023 and hadn’t played since
  • March 2024: Niele Ivey says that Olivia Miles will return for the 2024-25 season
  • March 2024: Kylee Watson is out for the season after suffering a torn ACL in the ACC tournament
  • April 2024: KK Bransford enters the transfer portal but later withdraws her name, opting to return to Notre Dame
  • April 2024: Natalija Marshall enters the portal as a grad transfer . . . landing at Miami (FL)
  • April 2024: Maddy Westbeld announces she’ll return to Notre Dame for the 2024-25 season, using her COVID extra year of eligibility

2024 Recruiting Class

2024 Notre Dame Women’s Basketball Commitments

Kate Koval, 6-5 C, Long Island Lutheran HS (Brookville, NY) [committed 10/4/2023; signed 11/14/2023]

2024 Targets

[none known]

Former 2024 Targets

Mikayla Blakes, 6-0 CG, Rutgers Prep (Somerset, NJ) [offered October 2021; Notre Dame not among seven finalists announced in August 2023]

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

Kendall Dudley, 6-1 W, Sidwell Friends School (Washington, DC) [offered July 2021; Notre Dame among ten finalists announced in October 2022; committed to UCLA, April 2023]

Olivia Olson, 6-1 PG, Benilde St. Margaret’s HS (St. Louis Park, MN) [offered July 2021; Notre Dame not among ten finalists announced in August 2022]

Taliyah Parker, 6-1 G, South Grand Prairie HS (TX) {previously attended Putnam City West HS (Oklahoma City, OK)} [offered October 2022; Notre Dame not among eight finalists announced in August 2023]

MacKenly Randolph, 6-1 F, Sierra Canyon School (Chatsworth, CA) [Notre Dame among three finalists announced in October 2023; committed to Louisville, February 2024]

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

Kennedy Umeh, 6-4 C, McDonogh School (Owings Mills, MD) [committed to Stanford, August 2023]

See next page for 2025 commitments and targets for Notre Dame 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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