After a promising first season at the helm of women’s basketball, Head Coach Ganiyat Adeduntan has reinforced the roster with five new recruits from the transfer portal and reworked the coaching staff as the team looks to build on its success in the 2026-27 season.
Since the team concluded its 18-18, 7-11 Atlantic 10 season in March, including the program’s first Great Eight appearance in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament, Adeduntan has recruited five new players from the transfer portal and made changes to the coaching staff in response to losing four seniors and the departure of Assistant Coach Brianna Finch to the University of Massachusetts Lowell last month. The new additions on both the court and sideline look to support Adeduntan’s goals of improving on both ends of the floor and maintaining a competitive, defense-first identity to secure a higher spot in conference rankings next season.
The coaching staff underwent several changes earlier this month, including the promotion of Assistant Coach John Hampton to associate head coach and the addition of two new assistant coaches, Essence Baucom and Kindyll Dorsey.
Baucom joins the coaching staff after a five-year stint as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Elon University. Baucom attended Elon from 2014 to 2017 and played 96 games for the Phoenix during her collegiate career, including helping the team earn its first-ever NCAA Tournament bid in 2017.
Dorsey previously worked as the associate director of athletics at Buckingham Browne & Nichols High School in Cambridge, Mass., for eight years and served as head coach of the varsity women’s basketball team for two seasons from 2012 to 2014. Dorsey also worked as an assistant coach at Northeastern University for three seasons, from 2015 to 2018, helping guide the program to its first winning season in five years in 2018.
Dorsey also has collegiate experience on the court, playing for Boston College from 2003 to 2007 and serving as team captain during three NCAA Tournament appearances and one Big East Tournament title in 2004. She also briefly played at a professional level for the Sandyford Meteors of the Irish Women’s Super League during the 2008 season.
In addition to new faces on the sidelines, five new transfers are joining the roster following the graduation of four seniors, including guards Filipa Calisto and Natalia Sierra-Vargas and forwards Emma Theodorsson and Caia Loving. Among the new additions are three guards and two forwards, bringing both perimeter shooting and elite defensive skills to a team that excels at rebounding and baseline defense, but struggles with ball security and forcing turnovers.
Among the transfers is graduate guard Anne Bair from Colgate University, whom Adentuntan previously recruited to play for the Raiders from Manhattan College in 2024 in her last year as head coach for the program. Adentuntan coached Bair during her standout junior season in which she started in all 33 games, averaging 12.4 points, 3.5 assists and 2.3 rebounds per game. During that season, she also led the Patriot League in free throws shooting at 88.7 percent and helped the team reach its second-ever WNIT appearance in 2025.
Bair averaged 13 points and 3.3 rebounds per game last season for Colgate, before an early-season injury sidelined her just three games into her senior year.
Senior guard Amor Harris, an Alexandria, Virginia native, joins the Revolutionaries from Longwood University, averaging 10.6 points per game, shooting 39.2 percent from the floor and making 24 starts in 31 games played last season. She posted a career-high 26 points in a home game against Troy University in early December of last season just days after she led Longwood to a 68-60 victory over Stephen F. Austin State University, where she made a career-best five 3-pointers during the third quarter for a late-game comeback.
Swiss native and sophomore forward N’na Konate transfers to Foggy Bottom from Campbell University and joins the team as a highly efficient shooter, shooting 50 percent from the field last season and securing 142 total rebounds. Her standout skill, though, in her freshman season was elite rim protection, making 51 blocks and ranking second in the Coastal Athletic Association and in the top 50 in the NCAA.
Junior guard Alicia Newell joins the roster as a defensive standout from Richmond, leading the team with 61 steals in her sophomore season and ranking second overall in the A-10. She averages 42.7 percent shooting from the floor and 33.3 percent from beyond the arc, while being incredibly reliable with the ball, averaging only 1 turnover per game last season. She was also a key contributor to the Spiders’ 28-7 record that propelled them to the Atlantic 10 Championship last season.
Junior forward Cam Rust, transferring from Seton Hall, averaged two points per game as a sophomore and shot 56 percent from the floor as a freshman at Pennsylvania State University. While her transfer stats reflect limited minutes, she produces when she gets playing time. During her freshman campaign, she logged a 10-point, 10-rebound double-double against Canisius University in just 13 minutes of play.
With a reconfigured coaching staff and a transfer class tailored to address both offensive efficiency and perimeter defense, Adeduntan has laid the groundwork for her second year as head coach. If this incoming class can seamlessly mesh with the returning core, the Revs are well-positioned to convert last season’s WNIT momentum into a deep run for an A-10 title.
