Last Season: UCLA was 17-6 last season and 12-4 in conference play.
The Coaches: Cori Close is in her 11th season as the Head Coach. Cori Close
Close is averaging 21 wins per year. She went to HS in the San Jose area.
Shannon Perry-LaBeauf is in her 11th year and she coached at Duke for 5 seasons.
Tony Newnan like the others is in his 11th season.
Tasha Brown is in her 4th season at UCLA.
Losses:
Michaela Onyenwere averaged 19 points and 7 rebounds.
Lindsey Corsaro averaged 5 points and 3 rebounds
Lauren Miller averaged 7 points and 5 rebounds.
Additions:
Isobel Anstey, 6-4 Frosh Post from Australia. She was supposed to play last season but couldn’t get a VISA at the time.
Gina Conti, 5-10 Grad Transfer from Wake Forest. Conti started every game her last three seasons and last season average 14 points and almost 5 assists.
Iimar’l Thomas, 5-10 Wing from Cincinnati. Went to HS in SF, from Oakland. Last season Thomas averaged 24 points and 7 rebounds and was league POY.
Angelia Dugalic, 6-4 Post a transfer from Oregon. Angelia averaged 3 points and 4 rebounds. She was ranked # 22 out of HS.
Jaelynn Penn, 5-10 Guard a Grad Transfer from Indiana. Last season Penn averaged 9 points and 4 rebounds. She started every game but one in her 4 year Indiana career.
The Schedule: UConn and Ohio State are the tougher games.
The Team:
Charisma Osborne, 5-9 Jr Guard who averaged 17 points, 6 rebounds Charisma Osborne
and 4 assists.
Natalie Chou is a 5th year 6-1 Guard who averaged 10 points, and made 39% of her threes.
Emily Bessoir, 6-4 Soph Post from Germany, who averaged 7 points and 5 rebounds. SADLY out for the year with a knee injury.
Chantel Horvat is a 6-2 5th year Wing from Australia who averaged 6 points and 4 rebounds per game.
Guard Kayla Owens is a 6-1 Redshirt SR Guard who sat out last season.
Kiara Jefferson is a 5-9 Sr Guard who sat out last season.
Darius Davis-Onu is a 5-9 Soph Grad who graduated from HS early and averaged 2 points.
Domin Camryn Brown, 5-10 Soph Guard who averaged 2 points and 4 rebounds.
Brynn Masikewich, 6-3 Redshirt Jr Forward from Canada who didn’t Sat out with an injury this past season
Predictions:
Conti as a Point Guard and Osborne as the 2 Guard are on national watch list. Dugalic, Thomas and Chou should should round out the starting five. However both Conti and Dugalic will be out for several weeks. Sadly.
2022 Recruiting:
Kiki Rice 5-11 Point Guard ranked # 2
Gabriela Jaquez 6-0 Forward ranked # 19
Londynn Jones, 5-5 PG from SoCal Ranked # 21
Paris Clark, 5-10 Guard from NY Ranked # 22
Christeen Iwuala, 6-3 Post ranked # 48
Lina Sontag, 6-3 Post from Germany
Elena Buenavida 5-9 Guard from Spain
Without doubt the top recruiting class in the country.
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