2025-26 Cal Preview in ACC

  2025-26 ACC Preview:  Cal

Last Season:  25-9 overall and 12-6

Cal's Roster

The Coaches:

 Charmin Smith with 2 degrees from Stanford returns for her 18th season at Cal and is now the Head Coach for her 7th year.  

Heidi Heintz is in her 4th year.  Heintz was an assistant at St Mary’s the previous three years.  She is the Associate Head Coach.

Eliza Pierre is in her 45th year after 4 years at UCSB.

Tarvon Bryant is in his 3nd year.

Jenny Huth is in her 2nd year at Cal.  Huth has coached at Oregon State, UCLA, Florida State, Kentucky and was once the Head Coach at Northern Colorado.

Kai Felton her 13th year at Cal.  Kai has been an Assistant at Oregon, 2 years, and at USC, 5 years.  Kai is no longer an official coach but she is a Special Assistant. 

 

Losses:  3 Transfers and 5 Graduated

Natalia Ackerman, 6-1 a transfer from Cal Poly.  Ackerman averaged 2 points and 3 rebounds.  Graduated.

Kamryn Mafua, 6-2 Forward, ranked # 56 out of HS and averaged 1.6 ppg.  Transfer to Utah.

Jayda Noble, 5-11 Guard a transfer from Washington,  she averaged 2 points and 3 rebounds.  Graduated.

Zahra King, 5-10 Guard from Brooklyn.  King was ranked # 76 out of HS.  As a frosh King averaged 2 ppg.  Transfer to SMU.

Kayla Williams, 5-7 Guard a transfer from USC.  Last season Williams averaged 11ppg.  Graduated.

Ioanna Krilimi, 5-10 Guard who transferred from U of San Francisco.  Last season Ioanna averaged 14 points and made 97 threes at 37%.  Graduated.

Marta Suarez , 6-3 Forward from Spain and a transfer from Tennessee.  Last season Marta averaged 13 points and 7 rebounds.  She also made 40 threes at 31%.  Transfer to TCU.

Michelle Onyiah, 6-3 Post averaged 12 points and 7 rebounds.  Graduated.

 

Additions: 3 Transfers and 4 Frosh

Grace McCallop, 5-10 Frosh PG from KS.  

Mjracle Sheppard, 5-10 Jr Guard who transferred from LSU after a year at Mississippi State.  Last season Sheppard averaged 4 ppg.  At Mississippi State she averaged 5 ppg.

Taylor Barnes, 6-0 Frosh Wing from Texas.  She was ranked # 70.

Isis Johnson-Musah, 5-10 Frosh Guard from Detroit.

Naya Ojukwu, 6-1 Soph Forward who transferred from Morgan State.  Naya averaged 17 points and 9 rebounds.  This is her 4^th, yes, school.

Puff Morris, 5-5 Frosh Guard from SoCal.  Puff was a McD All American and ranked # 22.

Sakima Walker, 6-5 Grad Student Post who transferred from South Carolina where she averaged 2 ppg.   This is Walker’s 4^th school.

 

 The Schedule:

The non-conference schedule includes Missouri, USC, Vanderbilt in France and Auburn. 

                                        

The Team: 

Lulu Laditan-Twidale 5-10 Jr Guard from Australia who averaged 13 ppg.

Anastasia Drosouni, 5-11 Jr Guard From Greece who averaged 1 ppg.      

Claudia Langarita, 6-4 Grad Student Post who was out last season.

 Gabrielle Abigor, 6-3 Soph Post averaged 2 points and 2 rebounds.

Lola Donez, 5-11 Soph Guard who averaged 1 ppg.  

Gisella Maul, 5-11 Jr Guard transfer who averaged 1 ppg.

 

Predictions:    

Cal returns only one player who saw much time although the one, Twidale, is very good.   They do have a very good frosh in Morris. However the loses to graduation of four starters is going to be hard to overcome. 

 

2026 Recruiting:  

Ruby Perkins, 5-9 Guard from Australia.  

 

 

2025-26 Preview of Boston College

 

Preview:   Boston College - Roster

Last Season:  Boston College was  16-18 and  6-12 in league play.

 

The Coaches:

Joanna Bernabei-McNamee is the Head Coach now in her 8^th season as Head Coach.   She is 64-53 is her last 4 seasons at Boston College.  She averaged 9.5 assist per game one season when she played for West Liberty University.

Sean Ehlbeck is in his 4th season as an assistant.

Clint Williams is in his 1^st year 

John Marcum is in his first season

Kristina Baugh is in her first season.

 

Losses (6 transfers out, 3 graduates):

Assistant Coach  Denesha Stallworth who Previously coached at UCSB and played for Cal before transferring to Kentucky.

T’yana Todd averaged 13 ppg.  Transferred to Ohio State.  

Teya Sisberry averaged 12 ppg and 7 rebounds.  Transfer to Texas.

Andrea Daley averaged 8 ppg and 6 rebounds.  Graduated.

Dontavia Waggoner averaged 13 ppg   Graduated.

Kaylah Ivey Averaged 6 ppg.  Transfer to Rutgers.

Nene Ndiaye, averaged 4 points and 2 rebounds. Transfer to Rutgers.

Tatum Greene, averaged 4 ppg.  Transfer to Florida State

Kennedi Jackson, averaged 4 ppg.  Graduated.

Savannah Samuel, averaged 6 ppg.  Transfer to Georgia Tech.

That’s 70 points per game gone.

 

Additions (10 new players):

    Freshmen:

Amirah Anderson 5-11 Frosh Guard form VA, ranked # 75.

Kennedy Hall 6-3 Frosh Forward from MD a 4 star recruit.

Jocelyne Grier, 5-8 Frosh Guard.

    Transfers (7 players):

Erin Houpt, 5-6 Redshirt Sr transfer from San Diego State where she averaged 5 ppg.

Lily Carmony, 5-11 Soph Guard transfer from Butler where she averaged 6 ppg.

Kaia Henderson, 5-6 Redshirt Jr Guard transfer from Ohio State where she played in 26 games as a Frosh and Soph then redshirted last season.

Emma PoPinto, 5-4 Grad Student Guard who was a Lacrosse player until now.

Kayla Rolph, 6-2 Sr Forward transfer from William and Mary where she averaged 7 points and 4 rebounds.

Kiera Edmonds, 6-2 Redshirt Soph transfer from Houston and before that Wagner.  At Wagner she averaged 10 points and 8 rebounds. 

Teionni McDaniel, 5-9 Grad Student Guard transfer from Georgetown of Kentucky.  She averaged 14 ppg last season at small Georgetown. 

 

The Schedule:  

UConn and Harvard are the highlights.

 

The Team: 

Athena Tomlinson is a 5-5 Soph Guard from Fresno.  She was ranked # 65 in the nation.  Tomlinson averaged 2 ppg.

Ava McGee, 5-10 Sr Guard who didn’t play last season.

 

Predictions:          

Can only go up, however not much in the way of incoming players to make up for those who transferred out.

 

2026 Recruiting:  

Eunicia Salgado, 6-1 Forward from Toronto.