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BY: WILL NUNN; SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR
As the St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team’s season closes, the vaunted calamity of the offseason has arrived. The Bonnies finished the season with a 6-24 record, going just 2-16 in Atlantic 10 play.
In the present era of collegiate athletics, a complete roster upheaval can be expected to take place. The transfer portal opened on March 25, and Bonaventure’s roster has already been flipped on its head.
Alongside senior guard Dani Haskell, the team’s leading scorer at 13 points per game, who is graduating, the Bonnies have seven players who have entered the portal as of April 1.
Senior guards Isabellah Middleton, Payton Fields and Nadechka Laccen will all become graduate transfers. All three saw limited action for the Bonnies this season. Middleton averaged 10.3 points and 4.6 rebounds per game in just eight games. Fields scored 2.5 points per game and Laccen put up 6.7 points per game, each playing just 11 games.
Junior guard Tamar voor de Poort will transfer after playing in 40 games in her two seasons as a Bonnie. The native of Doetinchem, Netherlands played just 6.6 minutes per game, scoring 0.6 points and grabbing 0.5 rebounds per game this season.
Freshman forward Caitlin Frost entered the transfer portal after starting in 22 of her 24 appearances this season. The Les Coteaux, Quebec native averaged 9 points per game and led the Bonnies with 5.5 rebounds per game.
Hannah Richardson, freshman guard from Auckland, New Zealand, also entered the transfer portal. Richardson played in 26 games this season, starting 15 of them, and tallied 4.8 points and 2.1 rebounds per game.
Freshman guard Lena Walz became the third player to enter the portal after just one season for the Brown and White. The native of Erie, Pa. averaged 2.9 points and 2 rebounds in 15 games played.
The Bonnies have made a move of their own in the transfer portal, adding sophomore guard Kaylee Krysztof from Binghamton University. The Buffalo, N.Y. native played in 37 games in her two years as a Bearcat, averaging 4.1 points per game in her sophomore season. Krysztof is a career 42% shooter from beyond the arc and scored a career high 17 points against SUNY Geneseo in December.
As the offseason progresses, the Bonnies will have a better idea of the shape of their roster heading into next season. With the sizable losses in production from this season, the Bonnies will look to retool their roster in order to compete in the A-10 in 2026.
