This post was written by Hatchet staff writer Josh Solomon.

The class – which was ranked as the top recruiting class in the A-10 and No. 41 in the nation, according to Blue Star Report – includes two post players, Jada Matthews and Kelli Prange, and two wing players, Brianna Cummings and Mia Farmer.

All four players were highly regarded in their respective home state’s and include state champions and USA Basketball experience.

Matthews comes out of Winslow Township High School in Atco, N.J. where she averaged 18 points, nine rebounds and five assists over her career. She has earned First-Team All-Olympic Conference honors and is a two-time All South Jersey selection. Tsipis said in a press release that she is a strong post player both on the block and on the perimeter where she can use her “soft shooting touch.”

Prange, coming in at 6-foot-5, will firstly add height to the team where she will be the tallest player. At Damascus High School, she averaged 15.5 points and 11.0 rebounds per game.

She will join the Colonial’s recent Washington-Metro recruit from Tsipis’ first class, freshman Caira Washington, as another young big. Prange earned All-County First Team and Washington Post All-Met Fourth team honors. Tsipis said earlier in the season that last year’s recruits had played a hand in the 2014-15 recruiting class.

A 5-foot-10 presence on the wing, Cummings comes from the Greater Atlanta Christian School where she averaged 15.8 points, 7.2 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game in her career. As a junior she earned All-County First Team and All-Metro Second Team honors. Further, ESPN HoopGurlz named her 25th in the nation at her position. Tsipis said in his press release that Cummings will be a versatile player who can guard four different positions and is great at attacking the basket.

Farmer, a 5-foot-7 guard from Cardinal O’Hara High School in Springfield, Pa., recently led her team to the 2013 Philadelphia Catholic League and district championships and state semifinals. Tsipis attributed her long-range shooting and quick release as a key to Farmer’s game that made her difficult in high school where she was a First-Team All-Catholic, Third-Team All-State, Second-Team All-Delco and All-Southern Pennsylvania selection.

This is just Tsipis’ second recruiting class, coming a year after his inaugural class of current freshmen received an honorable mention nationally. This year, in addition to the national ranking, GW’s class reigned above all other A-10 teams, with Saint Louis as the only other team to crack the Top 50 at No. 45. Upcoming opponent and regional rival Maryland’s 2014-15 class ranked No. 11 in the nation.

“With our second recruiting class, we wanted champions on the court, in the classroom and in life. My staff – associate head coach Megan Duffy, our recruiting coordinator, as well as assistant coaches Diane Richardson and Bill Ferrara – have worked extremely hard to build relationships with these student-athletes who fit our vision of putting this program among the nation’s elite, and this recruiting class helps us build the next chapter in the highly successful tradition of GW Women’s Basketball,” Tsipis said in a press release

Ferrara was brought on this summer from Hofstra, partly for his strong recruiting background.