Duke Women’s Preview’s From The Chronicle
As we get ready to get things going
The Duke Chronicle has its annual women’s basketball preview up and it should be an exciting season for Duke fans.
Injury updates first: we’re really happy to see Vanessa DeJesus back for her final season after she missed last year with a serious knee injury. Whatever her role, she is mature and experienced, and that’s what you ideally would like to have in a point guard.
On the downside, 6-4 freshman Arianna Roberson, who was expected to start at center, is out for the season after suffering an injury during FIBA competition this summer.
It wasn’t a huge team anyway, but losing her means others will have to step up. One who might in some imaginative, unforeseen way: freshman Toby Fournier. Just 6-2, she has a 6-5 wingspan and has played a lot in the post in high school.
And she also has a spectacular vertical which might allow her to guard taller players. It also means she can dunk and not just in warm-ups: she comes to Duke with a tremendous amount of hype for her dunking talents. Is it too much to say she's the most hyped dunker to come to Duke since Zion Williamson?
Maybe, maybe not.
She’s a unique talent though, so enjoy it.
The various links from the preview are listed below.
- The Chronicle’s 2024-25 women’s basketball season preview
- ‘Coach Kara is my GOAT’: After 4 years with Duke women’s basketball, head coach Kara Lawson has developed a program
- How will freshman center Arianna Roberson’s season-ending injury affect Duke women’s basketball this season?
- From Canada to Durham, Duke women’s basketball’s Emma Koabel and Toby Fournier stick together
- ‘Come back better’: Kara Lawson’s Olympic coaching run has improved her leadership of Duke women’s basketball
- How will freshman center Arianna Roberson’s season-ending injury affect Duke women’s basketball this season?
- Chemistry, commitment and togetherness: Inside Duke women’s basketball’s Sisterhood
- ‘My best friend’: Ashlon Jackson and Reigan Richardson, The Sisterhood’s favorite ‘sisters’
- Reigan Richardson
- Taina Mair
- Oluchi Okananwa
- Jadyn Donovan
- Ashlon Jackson
- Toby Fournier
- Vanessa de Jesus
- Emma Koabel
- Delaney Thomas
- Arianna Roberson
- Riley Nelson
- Louann Battiston
- Jordan Wood
- Janessa Cotton