Last season, the Colorado Buffaloes women’s basketball team started a duo of talented post players in Quay Miller and Aaronette Vonleh while bringing in 6-foot-3 Charlotte Whittaker and 6-foot-1 Sara-Rose Smith off the bench. Now, only Smith remains with the 2024-25 season on tap, but the Buffs remain strong in the paint.
Head coach JR Payne and her staff went to work over the offseason and brought in a host of post players, making this year’s group look like one of the longest teams the Buffs have fielded in some time. New players include Ayianna Johnson (6-foot-3), JoJo Nworie (6-foot-5), Nyamer Diew (6-foot-2), Lior Garzon (6-foot-1) and Jade Masogayo (6-foot-3).
Earlier this week, Payne spoke about some of the new faces on her roster:
“Jade Masogayo is unbelievably gifted, very long and very athletic,” Payne began. “Nyamer Diew, we list her at maybe 6-foot-1, but I’d love to know her wingspan because it’s significantly longer than that. She provides great length. Lior Garzon is great on the perimeter. JoJo Nworie is probably the longest of all of them at 6-foot-5. The goal was to add depth and size, and we definitely did that.”
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