Know this one well. She played HS with my daughter. Won a state championship together when Anna was a sophomore. Anna went on to win another State Championship and finish 2nd in her Junior and Senior years. She played a lot at Penn State (including 50+ starts I think) her first three years but not as much this last year. She is a sorta stretch big, but never really got her shooting going in college in the Big 10. But she was a multi-year Captain at PSU, great kid, and also a big NIL woman. She did a lot of social media and cashed in that too through NIL. Not sure what she will find at UR on that front. On the court she will help I think and if she can rediscover her shooting, she can be pretty impactful for UR!
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When you mentioned social media I knew I had come across something recently.
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Who is Anna Camden? Meet the 6-foot-3 college basketball stunner and social media star
Meet Anna Camden, the Penn State women’s basketball senior who is a player to watch in the transfer portal.
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I thought you meant the daily Mail…When you mentioned social media I knew I had come across something recently.
Who is Anna Camden? Meet the 6-foot-3 college basketball stunner and social media star
Meet Anna Camden, the Penn State women’s basketball senior who is a player to watch in the transfer portal.
Roussell seems to be hooked on these types of players. 3 of our better ball handlers (out of 4) transferred out. All we have are 6’1” to 6’3” players. I fear that if the team gets pressed they’ll fold pretty easily.
3 of 4? Boone, Burgos, and who? Williams was not a ball handler.
Burgos was pretty much a non-factor...played 78 minutes all season. I honestly didn't expect her to play a fifth year anyway.
I agree Boone is a loss, but we've got a frosh coming in to back up Townsend.
Believe we also still have two open spots, though I don't know if we plan to use both. We had an open one this year. But I assume we're still looking at the portal.
Burgos was pretty much a non-factor...played 78 minutes all season. I honestly didn't expect her to play a fifth year anyway.
I agree Boone is a loss, but we've got a frosh coming in to back up Townsend.
Believe we also still have two open spots, though I don't know if we plan to use both. We had an open one this year. But I assume we're still looking at the portal.
Vol, you heard anything more about Green? Still early in her recruitment, but as one of the top few recruits in VA for 2026, she's picking up huge offers left and right. Baylor, Pitt, Illinois, Louisville, Ole Miss, UNC, and Iowa in just the past couple of days. Lots of others too since your post.
Hard to imagine she would stick with UR when she'll have her choice of any school in the country.
Shade? I think Roussell is doing a solid job rebuilding the program and I'm rooting all the way for Sanai to be a Spider, but I'm also being realistic.
It would be incredible if she decided to stay home, but when just about every program including the national runners-up are already banging down her door, the odds are undoubtedly stacked against UR.
A long way to go before all these decisions are made, but staying at home wouldn't be unprecedented. The example that came to mind was Elena Della Donne. She originally committed to UConn but dropped out and landed at Delaware. There were some unique circumstances in her case, but the pull of home can be powerful.
But when its a local kid - boy or girl, you recruit them early, hard, and often. Try to use that local connection as much as possible, and sometimes you get lucky - maybe they commit early before they blow up AND honor the commitment. OR - maybe they just really want to stay home. And now with transfer portal - maybe they go elsewhere and don't like it or come home towards the end of their college career. So many more possibilities that is basically impossible to give up on someone now and just say - we can't recruit them.
That's being polite. There was a lot more to it than her handicapped sibling.
She also was extremely homesick and had a special needs sister she missed. Staying home didn’t hurt her but she’s an exceptional talent.
Camden is now officially on board and Roussell has also added grad transfer Laren VanArsdale from Hampton to shore up the PG position.
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Women’s Basketball Adds Graduate Transfers Anna Camden and Laren VanArsdale - University of Richmond Athletics
RICHMOND, Va. – The University of Richmond Women's Basketball team announced the signing of grad transfers Anna Camden and Laren VanArsdale for the 2023-24 season
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Not sure if this was already in the works or if Roussell moved quickly after Camden's injury, but we've added another grad transfer forward, Faye Parker out of Penn. Limited contributor there, but Roussell says he recruited her heavily out of Tabor Academy. She had a career-high 7 boards plus 4 points and 3 blocks against the Spiders when we played Penn in the WNIT this past season.
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Women’s Basketball Adds Graduate Transfer Faye Parker to 2023-24 Roster - University of Richmond Athletics
RICHMOND, Va. – University of Richmond Head Women's Basketball Coach Aaron Roussell announced on Friday the addition of graduate transfer Faye Parker to the 2023-24
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UR press release on Camden's injury...out for the season of course. Not exactly clear whether she'll plan to stick around for another season with the medical redshirt, but seems like it could be a possibility.
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Anna Camden to miss 2023-24 Season due to Knee Injury - University of Richmond Athletics
RICHMOND, Va. – Women's Basketball graduate transfer Anna Camden will miss the 2023-24 season due to a knee injury suffered during a team workout last week, the
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Get her in a good MA program that takes two years.UR press release on Camden's injury...out for the season of course. Not exactly clear whether she'll plan to stick around for another season with the medical redshirt, but seems like it could be a possibility.
Anna Camden to miss 2023-24 Season due to Knee Injury - University of Richmond Athletics
RICHMOND, Va. – Women's Basketball graduate transfer Anna Camden will miss the 2023-24 season due to a knee injury suffered during a team workout last week, the
Suspect I just missed this but didn't realize Coach Gaitley is back in D1 ..
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Gaitley Named Women's Basketball Head Coach - FDU Knights Athletics
Stephanie Gaitley arrives on the Hackensack after most recently leading Fordham for 11 seasons.
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A real pro.He and his coaching team won’t be here long if there is a Big Dance appearance in their near future.
With her injury, Camden is helping out with some Spider TV stuff. Intro with her here, and then she interviewed all of the incoming football transfers, which I just posted over in that forum.
Spiders picked 4th in the A-10 this season, highest in over a decade, but I don't feel like that's the ceiling for them. Budnik first-team and Doogan second-team.
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Spiders Picked Fourth in A-10 WBB Preseason Poll; Budnik and Doogan Named to Preseason All-Atlantic 10 Teams - University of Richmond Athletics
GLEN ALLEN, Va. – With the highest pick since the 2012-13 season, the University of Richmond Women's Basketball team was selected fourth in the 2023-24 Atlantic
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I like the building aspect and the trajectory of the women's program under Coach Rousell and his staff right now.
Update after 3 games - Got beat down by Duke at Cameron (not unexpected, and they actually improved over last year's point spread). Looked really good against Delaware St (a team near the bottom of the women's RPI) and just beat Gardner-Webb by over 20 points. They're crushing the teams they should crush, and they're shooting really really well. Their new small guard Van Arsdale is a good complement to Grace in the backcourt. They're tenacious and fast. Looking forward to the future.
Maine got off to a 3–1 start including an 11-point victory over A-10 favorite Rhode Island, but the Spiders just demolished the Black Bears, 77–43. Spiders are playing well in all phases of the game, shooting well, defending well, rebounding well, taking care of the ball.
They got easily handled by Duke in the opener, but since then it's been utter domination by the Spiders.
Drake tomorrow should be a tough test, and Louisiana Tech probably won't be a pushover, so it'll be interesting to see what the Spiders can do over the next two days.
They got easily handled by Duke in the opener, but since then it's been utter domination by the Spiders.
Drake tomorrow should be a tough test, and Louisiana Tech probably won't be a pushover, so it'll be interesting to see what the Spiders can do over the next two days.
Spiders ride a big second quarter to get the 74–66 win over Drake and move to 5–1.
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This is great, I have a hard time imagining it, since I always see the 80s version of LA Tech…
Spiders run them out of the gym, 83–56. Doogan with 21, Ullstrom with 15 off the bench, Budnik with 12. Spiders shoot over 50% from the floor overall and from deep.
Big game on Thursday against Villanova, where Spider frosh Courtney Swider will face her senior sister Kylie. (Their brother Cole was on a two-way contract with the Lakers last season and is now on one with the Heat.)
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Big game on Thursday against Villanova, where Spider frosh Courtney Swider will face her senior sister Kylie. (Their brother Cole was on a two-way contract with the Lakers last season and is now on one with the Heat.)
Richmond 83-56 Louisiana Tech (Nov 26, 2023) Box Score - ESPN
Box score for the Richmond Spiders vs. Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters NCAAW game from November 26, 2023 on ESPN. Includes all points, rebounds and steals stats.
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